A 21st-Century Feminist Family

Posted on | December 24, 2014 | 23 Comments

Elizabeth Fierro describes her teenage life in Austin, Texas:

I used to be self-conscious about the fact that I have three moms. I worried no one would understand my experience of having divorced biological parents, both recently remarried to beautiful women. . . .
I did hear about families with same-sex parents — never from books and films, but my elementary school best friend had two moms and a hyphenated last name. When I was 12, the first family I babysat for had four adopted children and a pair of loving fathers. . . .
I’m lucky to have the family I do. Not everyone recognizes it — I’ve certainly read my fair share of articles about the alleged horrors that having same-sex parents means for a child — but I truly am lucky. For me at least, more parents means more shoulders to cry on, more voices to phone, and more love to give and receive. Having triple the maternal presence that most children get instilled in me a deep appreciation for motherhood—I have three women in my life who managed to turn down the volume on all the expectations that come with that role, and instead focused on doing what is right for them.
Yet, doing what was right for them wasn’t always easy. When my parents decided to remarry, for example, my dad was able to legally marry in Texas, half an hour from home. My mom and her fiancée, by contrast, had to drive 22 hours to Minnesota last summer to get their marriage paperwork signed — and their marriage still isn’t official in the State of Texas.
That is just one example of how my family gave me a different social experience than many other children. . . .

You can read the rest of that. You can also read her journalistic output for the Harry Potter Alliance: “Lizzie is a Ravenclaw, Gleek, Starkid, and Nerdfighter devoted to making the world a better place.” And by “better,” she evidently means feminist:

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past seven or eight days [she wrote in July 2013], then you must know that quite a lot went down involving social justice recently. But what exactly happened? What are the implications of DOMA and Prop 8’s repeal? What is the VRA and what happened to it? Why exactly did Wendy Davis spend 11 hours talking without eating, drinking, or sitting down? . . .
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled Section 3 of DOMA as unconstitutional. . . .
This is clearly a win for LGBTQ+ community and supporters across the country, though it may be bittersweet for some people. My mom and her fiancee are to be married in Minnesota on August 1st, as one of the first couples to be legally married in the state- however, since we live in Texas and will have to travel to a different state for them to be legally married, they will be granted none of the federal benefits that same-sex couples who live in Minnesota will. We all cried twice after hearing the news: once out of happiness, and once out of happiness tinged with sadness, jealousy, and curiosity about what it would mean for us to move to a different state. . . .
Can you imagine talking for 11 hours without eating, drinking, sitting down, or going to the bathroom? Welcome to Wendy Davis’s life last Tuesday.
SB5 was the bill under debate in Texas last Tuesday. It would ban all abortions after 20 weeks and require all abortion clinics to meet certain incredibly high standards — standards that would close all but about 5 abortion clinics, which, in a state as large as Texas, would make it nearly impossible for all women living outside of the largest Texan cities to receive an abortion. . . .
Wendy Davis’s courage, the courage of the people in the stands, and the support of all the people watching the filibuster is remarkable. Still, it is baffling to me that it is 2013 and we are still voting on women’s rights, and the thought that Davis’s filibuster may have been for nothing makes me cringe. . . .

Kill your baby (women’s rights!) and if any of them happen to survive, make sure they have gay parents. That’s “a better world.”

Category: Feminism

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23 Responses to “A 21st-Century Feminist Family”

Federale
December 24th, 2014 @ 2:44 pm

Interesting in that this crazy Texan closed her post to comments. Dykes are always afraid of different opinions.
RS
December 24th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

. . . three women in my life who managed to turn down the volume on all the expectations that come with that role, and instead focused on doing what is right for them.

In other words, three women for whom narcissism and the deity of “self-actualization” trumped anything remotely transcendent. For her mother, it was not about her family, her commitment to her husband and child, but to her self. The fact that she was able to make room for her daughter within her own solipsistic world is incidental.

Sorry. I shall not celebrate it.
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Tim
December 24th, 2014 @ 3:08 pm

“Still, it is baffling to me that it is 2013 and we are still voting on women’s rights,”

Who was it who said that abortion is the closest thing liberals have to a sacrament? Rush, maybe? Anyway, statements such as this are all the proof one needs to show that abortion is now a quasi-religious belief among liberals especially rad-fems.

“and the thought that Davis’s filibuster may have been for nothing makes me cringe. .”

Davis’ 18-point spanking to Abbott back in November shows that Wendy’s little stunt *was* for nothing, :D.
robertstacymccain
December 24th, 2014 @ 3:27 pm

Ann Coulter called abortion the sacrament of the Church of Liberalism. (Godless, 2006)
Fail Burton
December 24th, 2014 @ 4:22 pm

Shouldn’t she be lucky she wasn’t aborted? Or does never existing not count?
Jim R
December 24th, 2014 @ 4:53 pm

I’m a transracial adoptive father; I get the whole non-traditional family thing.

I’m an adoptive father; I don’t get the abortion thing. I don’t get how people who can claim to be pro-child – can be PARENTS – can be in favor of murdering unborn children.

Then again, there are a lot of things I don’t get about lefties.
Jim R
December 24th, 2014 @ 4:56 pm

Or they may dislike people calling them “dykes”.
concern00
December 24th, 2014 @ 7:48 pm

“… focused on doing what is right for them…”

but not for you, dear child. The narcissism and selfishness of the left is astonishing. They’ve twisted the ‘pursuit of happiness’ into a self centered pursuit of self interest and nothing else.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
December 24th, 2014 @ 9:25 pm

Moloch (Molech) wants its sacrifice. Leviticus 20:2-5 mentions the practice.
Federale
December 24th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm

If they didn’t like it, then why do they call attention to themselves?
Jim R
December 25th, 2014 @ 4:43 pm

We call attention to ourselves in this blog. Doesn’t mean we want to be called names.
RKae
December 25th, 2014 @ 6:43 pm

Except for other dykes. Then it’s “cute,” right?

I for one am pretty damned sick of “we get to use this word and you don’t.”

It’s all a constant setup, so people like you can snap out with a snippy, superior comment like the one you just posted.
RKae
December 25th, 2014 @ 6:46 pm

Ginette Paris (a witch) actually wrote a book called “The Sacrament of Abortion.”

Some clinics in Canada gave it out as a parting gift to customers who had just slaughtered their inconvenient offspring. I guess discovering that what they had done was not “terminating a lump of cells” but “sacrificing a life to the moon goddess Diana” was supposed to make them feel better.
RKae
December 25th, 2014 @ 6:56 pm

What lefties gleefully fail to notice is that “non-traditional” families are families cobbled together after somebody screwed up – usually from some act of unbridled selfishness.

A blended family is like a wheelchair: it’s a great idea that keeps life going after a major disaster, but it’s still not preferential. It would be nice if the disaster never happened in the first place.
Jim R
December 25th, 2014 @ 7:25 pm

Yes. As happy as we are with our little girl, it’s not all a happy story. At all.

As for the girl in the post… I’m glad she seems to be happy, but I can’t help but wonder if she wouldn’t be happier if her folks hadn’t split up in the first place. I also wonder just how much (for want of a better term) brainwashing has been going on.
Jim R
December 25th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm

Do they like that word? I gather that they don’t.
Jim R
December 25th, 2014 @ 7:51 pm

That’s… disturbing.
Federale
December 26th, 2014 @ 1:05 am

We aren’t engaging in behavior in violation of the natural law and the revealed law of God.
Federale
December 26th, 2014 @ 1:06 am

No, it’s like the other word, they like it depending on who’s using it.
Jim R
December 26th, 2014 @ 9:02 am

I’m sure that there are those loud-mouth militant types who use it to rub it in everybody else’s face, but I think that most of them are no more enamored of being called “dykes” than Christians are of being called “Bible thumpers” or Jews are of being called “heebs” of blacks are of being called “niggers”. Or men are of being called potential rapists, for that matter.

As it happens, I have some friends and acquaintances who are gay / lesbian (one reason I object to the term). They are, for want of a better term, perfectly normal folks who keep their bedroom behaviors and preferences as private as most other people and otherwise live and let live, which is fine with me. As for the religious implications, I leave that to God in the hopes that He will be as forgiving of them as I desperately hope that He will be of me.
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