Comments on: Yin yang boy http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/yin-yang-boy/ notes from the crossroads of mother and father Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:27:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: MidLifeMama http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/yin-yang-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-462576 MidLifeMama Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:47:07 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=3504#comment-462576 Wandered my way here from the Women's Colony. I have a son around the same age as yours, and have been astounded by the relentlessness with which he can listen to the same song, sound, or watch the same 11 minute episode of Fireman Sam over and over again. But then I listened to Sammy Davis Jr.'s The Candyman endlessly on my close and play record player (yes, I am over 40) as a child so who am I to talk. I am enjoying reading your blog. Glad I wandered over. Wandered my way here from the Women’s Colony. I have a son around the same age as yours, and have been astounded by the relentlessness with which he can listen to the same song, sound, or watch the same 11 minute episode of Fireman Sam over and over again. But then I listened to Sammy Davis Jr.’s The Candyman endlessly on my close and play record player (yes, I am over 40) as a child so who am I to talk. I am enjoying reading your blog. Glad I wandered over.

]]> By: BeethovenLives http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/yin-yang-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-462535 BeethovenLives Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:40:14 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=3504#comment-462535 Fascinating stuff. My mum didn't believe in barbie dolls because a) they couldn't be moved. The stiff arms and legs and the fact that barbie can't stand up on her own doesn't make for much creativity. Apparently I loved bending my brothers action men, making them do slow motion acrobatics. b) the limited pallette of pink. She told me that seeing only pink all the time stunted my development or something. This upbringing, and my two older brothers, well I suppose it's textbook isnt it :D I wore a dress only twice in my life. Age four, I was forced into one so my parents could a nice picture of me for my grandmother, and age sixteen at the prom. I wish, wish, wish I had gone to the prom in a girl-tux but I wasnt feeling controversial enough. I think my school would have self destructed. I'll just have to wear a tux on my wedding day. Fascinating stuff. My mum didn’t believe in barbie dolls because a) they couldn’t be moved. The stiff arms and legs and the fact that barbie can’t stand up on her own doesn’t make for much creativity. Apparently I loved bending my brothers action men, making them do slow motion acrobatics. b) the limited pallette of pink. She told me that seeing only pink all the time stunted my development or something. This upbringing, and my two older brothers, well I suppose it’s textbook isnt it :D I wore a dress only twice in my life. Age four, I was forced into one so my parents could a nice picture of me for my grandmother, and age sixteen at the prom. I wish, wish, wish I had gone to the prom in a girl-tux but I wasnt feeling controversial enough. I think my school would have self destructed. I’ll just have to wear a tux on my wedding day.

]]> By: Lesbian Dad http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/yin-yang-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-462514 Lesbian Dad Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:22:22 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=3504#comment-462514 Yes! Left to its own devices (as much as such a culturally mediated thing as "gender" and its trappings can be its own device) the human animal has so much more range than we ever imagined. What a very fascinating tour you give this whole topic. (Okay, you reader: hop over there right this instant). Yes! Left to its own devices (as much as such a culturally mediated thing as “gender” and its trappings can be its own device) the human animal has so much more range than we ever imagined.

What a very fascinating tour you give this whole topic. (Okay, you reader: hop over there right this instant).

]]> By: mindbodymama http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/yin-yang-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-462510 mindbodymama Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:32:52 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=3504#comment-462510 I love, love, love this photo. I've got a companion on my site from last Christmas--a girl in a suit playing with her Disney princess Barbie collection: <a href="http://www.mindbodymama.com/2009/10/mind-body-mama-hidden-hurt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mindbodymama.com/2009/10/mind-body-mama-hidden-hurt.html</a> I love, love, love this photo. I’ve got a companion on my site from last Christmas–a girl in a suit playing with her Disney princess Barbie collection:
http://www.mindbodymama.com/2009/10/mind-body-mama-hidden-hurt.html

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