Okay so I don't really agree with the people who say "rain on your wedding day" is too common and likely an occurrence to be "ironic" the way Alanis says it is in "Ironic" But, like, this is a FIFTY PERCENT CHANCE people are throwing tantrums over https://twitter.com/tequliashots/status/1308259561904586754 …
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God and this is why I genuinely believe the hot take that so many "normal" cishet people shouldn't be parents I still remember Bill Simmons earnestly saying that it was completely natural and normal for every father to feel a pang of disappointment when a daughter is born
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"I love my daughter to bits I swear but when my son was born a part of me was like, 'Yes, finally, the teams are even'" Good FUCKING Lord
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And the cisheteronormativity comes as a natural result, obviously If that's how it works then holy shit God forbid his wife die in a car accident ever The daughter would be outnumbered, on a team of one
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This was the argument people seriously used against gay marriage -- "Would you be comfortable having a little daughter raised in a household of ONLY MEN?" -- and it says extremely dark things about how they think "normal" motherhood and fatherhood are supposed to work
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And, yes, this is making the problematic assumption that everyone in this scenario is cis and all the assigned genders are accurate It's ALREADY fucked up before you have to have the conversation with a parent like this that a daughter is really a son
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