To think men can NEVER be mothers

[Leafstamp]

I am furious that men like this think they can call themselves mums/mothers. This deserves a wide audience, hence posting in AIBU.

(11) Paul Embery on Twitter: "ITV news did a piece about the impact of soaring water bills on an everyday mother. So naturally they got a man to play the part. t.co/b0ipO7loUE" / Twitter

A breast pump? WTAF is he planning to do with that? 🙄

Let's hope they chose a trans woman as no actual woman agreed to the sordid stereotyping on so many levels. Gender ideology is bullshit. Utter misogyny.

Stop it 🤣

A climate activist, socialist dude, sorry ‘mother’. A bit of an overkill on woke box ticking.

Fetish

Fetishism. Why the focus on a fucking breast pump?

It was a man that put that washing machine there, with a door that opens the direction it does.

When my husband died when my kids were small I got the 'you have to be mum and dad now'. But no it doesn't work that way. You can do the caring normally associated with one of the parents but you aren't that other parent. I am their mother. I am not their father, and the fact I was the only parent didn't change that.

Men aren’t women.

Carol Decker (of T'Pau fame)

Maybe it's the dad's?

Maybe it's the dad's?

Ah, 2023. What a time to be alive. 🤯

There are plenty of fathers who put gbeir kids first, and plenty of mothers who do not. It’s not an inate thing to be a ‘good’ parent if you are female, it’s a socialised thing.

Because he's not. He's a man who thinks because he wants to do "womanly" things, he's a woman. Instead of being a TRA, he needs to fight gender/sex stereotypes. Why does he need to be woman to do traditionally feminine things.

And I assume he's the baby's dad. Or is the baby adopted?

Also, he's not a poor (as in income) parent of either sex, he's a well paid professional.

I don't think you are being fair tbh. This is a trans woman and should be known as a mother. Just respectful.

Nope.

Just disrespectful to women and girls.

Because there was a real lack of actual mothers struggling to pay their bills they could have used instead……ok then

What about being respectful to the children who are now expected to change from having had a Dad to having no Dad and two Mums to indulge a grown man's fetish?

No. Men don't become women because they claim they are. Nobody can change sex. He's a transwoman.
Men aren't mothers. The word mother is taken - as is the word woman. By women.

I agree

@MrsOvertonsWindow I don't think they have become a woman. I think they are a trans woman which is different. But she deserves to be addressed by the right pronouns. You have no idea what her situation is. What if she adopted children without a home? She deserves to bring her kids up in a way that feels right. Yes, she clearly won't have birthed the children but on every other way is their mother.

This is a trans woman and should be known as a mother. Just respectful.

Not respectful to the actual woman and actual mother. And to the 51% of the population who are real women.

The word 'mother' means something, it has a purpose and that purpose is sex based. This has been upheld by court.

A male should not be gaslighting their children to declare themselves a 'mother' when they are not female. This is cruel to children. The term is not about the male in this instance, it is about the child and the child's needs. How anyone can support this degree of indoctrination into ideological thinking for a child is rather remarkable.

That male could have chosen any neutral or male term for parent. Instead they have chosen not to do that and to lie to their child/children. This is not respectful at all.

But that isn't what happened. Mika's wife/partner gave birth to a baby daughter in 2019

But she deserves to be addressed by the right pronouns

But this makes no sense. The 'right' pronouns are the sex based ones that everyone recognises him as. Why does he get to override the reality of everyone else's eyes and ears?