This is an image posted at Laura Wood's The Thinking Housewife, on a post about a mother who lets (or wishes that) the inner gayness of her child manifest itself. In fact, the story is about how this mother was so disappointed that her heterosexual son revealed to her that he is indeed heterosexual.
The photograph is from the Huffington Post, with this title: My Son Wore a Dress for Halloween.
There are many evils that emanate from this image:
- What young boy makes an independent decision to "do" anything? The ultimate arbitrators and judges are the parents. "No, you cannot wear that costume for Halloween." "You will eat your porridge, or no breakfast." "I'm not paying for that toy/DVD/popsicle/school trip. When you earn your own salary, you can buy whatever you want."
- What mother will plaster photos of her children on the internet, for all to see, judge, and even plan a trip to her home to find this fairy child?
- What mother (and father, because the father is presumably in agreement, even if his wife didn't initially consult him, since everyone will tell him about that photograph) wants her son to be a daughter (or a boy-child to be a girl-child?)
One other strange and disturbing aspect of this image is that this mother doesn't want her son to be any kind of girl (although she's playing around with the theme of a "fairy").
She has her son standing with his arms akimbo, in a sexualized pose.
What young girl stands with her arms perched on her (non-existent, immature) waist?
I suppose the falseness of the scenario manifests itself in that exaggeratedly sexualized pose. This boy reconstructed as a girl by the evil mother has to exaggerate, and corrupt, femininity in order for his transformation to be credible.
All children like to play dress-up. Somehow, this evil mother convinced her young son that it was ok to dress as a fairy girl. And as with all children, he used his imagination to play that role to its fullest. Where did he learn to use his imagination to that fullest?
Of course, it is not just the evil mother who builds these scenarios for her son: she has a whole army of complicits, from the school teachers, television personalities, politicians, and really almost everyone else that is now in our liberal world.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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