All the eyerolls 🙄 they/them 'not Daddy!'

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What nurses have to put up with. His poor wife (although that word's not used*), his poor kids

I'm a non-binary parent but have had to accept being called 'Daddy' | Metro News https://share.google/CdGfmxVnizOeyxBbe

Admittedly, when we arrived at the delivery suite on Tuesday night I did tell the lead midwife that my pronouns are they/them

Of course he did.

The whole article is worth a read, simultaneously hilarious, jawdropping and troubling. I thought he could put it on stage at the next Fringe, it'd bring the house down. It's hard to believe it wasn't ghost written by Glinner as a pisstake.

*hopefully they're not married °so leaving this self obsessed bloke will be easier.

°how would that go anyway? 'I now pronoun you wife and....erm!'

Bit of a straw man there. There are many women who give birth without the biological father of their child present, perhaps alone for many reasons, perhaps with a same sex spouse or partner , or with another supporter, mother, sister. Midwives and other staff are very used to finding out who is in the room and their relationship to the birthing mother and giving due respect to that, no one expects all parturiants to be one year into a heterosexual marriage, with a Barrett starter home and top tier of wedding cake in the fridge.

However all birthing women are of necessity females, and all biological fathers are by default males. Ignoring this reality to dance around the solipsistic delusions of a male parent/father/partner who is prioritising the nitpicking details of his identity choices over the amazing reality of becoming a parent seems a bit of a distraction for staff, who's primary focus is the labouring woman & mother-baby dyad.

He sounds like hard work. Knob.

Haven’t even read the article yet and already I want to advise her to LT(N)B.

I enjoyed reading this story so much. It is wild how self centred this man is. Most expectant fathers are worried childbirth will be a bloodbath and the mother/baby might suffer or die, worst case scenario stuff, while they stand there like a helpless spare part.

But not this delight! He’s the main character in this scenario. His identity is his first thought.
I imagine this story following him around for years and years as documented evidence of what a massive self-centred knob he is.

If I'd been that neonatal medic I'd have probably said ‘Your sperm source is right here for you, okay?,’

But that would probably not have worked for him either 🤔 😂😂

I did tell the lead midwife that my pronouns are they/them

Did ye, aye?

I wish that we as a society had already established gender-neutral parent words which everyone is aware of.

You mean, like 'parent'? Which you use quite happily throughout the article.

I hope he showed up to the hospital wearing all that pink like in his photos, to show those unobservant medics how much he rejects gender stereotypes.

If his kids are anything like the ones I know he's in for tears as it's hit and miss what you get called. I have lost count how many times I have been called daddy. Or just a friend's name.

And what does he think a birth certificate is? It's not his document, it's the child's and it's a legal record of who they came from. Of course there is no "none of the above, I'm so much more special than those options" box.

OP, I refuse to believe that's not satire. You can't fool me!

Please make it stop 😫

I'd already read that article. They go along with social convention for the sake of the children.

What's wrong with that? Surely that's what the GC want?

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My teen daughter has occasionally had a go at calling me "dude", like she does with her friends, male and female

So depressing, they really do walk among us.

You don’t need the headline, the pink hair gives it away.

And some woman seriously got pregnant by this twat?!

😦 Me me me me me.

So his twins were in a neonatal unit and he was more concerned that he was being called Daddy.

I wish he would appreciate that the title Daddy is an honour and not one that everyone gets to have or deserves to have!

Yes, and where 'feelings' must be centred at every turn.

Plus, lockdown accelerated nascent mental health issues in many and enabled an excessive introspection and isolation to take hold.

So many eye rolls needed!

”As an assigned male at birth (AMAB) non-binary person, being referred to as ‘the dad’ or ‘daddy’ – which are clearly masculine-gendered terms – didn’t fit with my gender identity. ”

I wonder how he coped with the gendered trauma of (presumably) impregnating his female partner with his male sperm using his male penis…

I loved this so much. The stoicism to put aside their discomfort at the othering of NB people whilst their partner gives birth to twins is just perfect. Also the various references to sleep deprivation and exhaustion simply from having to support a woman having two babies AND battle ignorance at the same time. Brilliant.

How did they know who would give the sperm and who would carry the babies in utero? It's most perplexing.

Lol. Agree, it definitely reads as satire.

Bloody wally. Of course he is the Father/Daddy. What a load of coswallop.

Nobody bothered to think about what my pink hair meant when my newborn twins were receiving hospital care 🥺

Poor lad.

I thought this had to be satire when talked about calling himself Baba but decided not to as it would be cultural appropriation

It really does read like a satirisation of The Right Side of History doesn't it!