From Beacon Broadside:
Apparently the majority of the other parents at this unnamed, posh private school are not thinking about my sexual orientation every time they see me. The problem is I think they are.
Being a lesbian parent is hard work. Not only do you have to change diapers, clean up poop and vomit, negotiate temper tantrums, pump your breasts, and earn a living, you have to remember that not every hurdle you encounter in the outside world has to do with the fact that you're a lesbian mom.
This is a very humorous and well-written anecdote on not only a day in the life of a lesbian mother, but on our perceptions of one another. Of particular interest is the observation that just because someone is part of a minority people group in a society, does not therefore mean that they are accepting or even tolerant of other people groups. I certainly had already drawn an assumption about Wanda in the story at the very beginning.
Just because you represent one minority doesn't mean you're fond of another. We all know there are racist, homophobic, classist white people. But we kind of assume people of one oppressed group will be fond of those of another. After all, they're all in it together. Right?
Heck no.
There are racist gay people, anti-Semitic brown people, homophobic Jewish people, and crazy, unexpected white people who actually are fond of everybody.
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