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| Originally posted by stanya I'm newly pregnant (seven weeks) and my partner and I are wondering what the kid will call us. We're a butch/femme couple. I'll easily be "mom" or "mama" but we think of my partner clearly as "dad." But in this gender-narrow society, we feel it might not be fair to have the kid call her "dad" because the rest of the world will repsond with confusion and possibly derision. Any ideas from any other butch/femme parents out there? While the world is becoming more an more accepting of "two moms", "two dads", there's not much progress for butches who don't identify with the female moniker "mom". thanks all... |
'It's Irish for "dad/parent," which most people don't know. That's why I chose it.'
(Her input.) 'Feel free to use it.'
I've always liked it... You don't here it often (around here at least) and it has the feeling of both masculinity and a certain amount of femininity as well.
It still confuses people now and then, like when Baby (then 2) and I were wandering through work once, looking for K and people kept asking her where her "mommy" was... She of course looked at them like they were insane and said, "DA." Heh.
