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!'

What are the odds that those poor babies will turn out to be non binary or trans?

I don’t know about wiring his brain up to the national grid, my eyeballs could have powered a small town reading that.

What an absolute embarrassment.

Thank you. Yes, it is mostly in Chinese contexts I have encountered it - always, as you say, for the male parent. Have also encountered it in some Middle Eastern families (Arabic mother tongue, but from a number of different countries) - again, always for the male parent.

What a fucking dickhead

This would doubly appropriate for these parents. She must be barking too to even contemplate sharing the same space as this self-obsessed numpty, let alone his sperm.

Surely this cringe bloke has just killed being an enby stone dead for all teenagers?

Oh this is genius

Or

Dum

??

Me me me me me me me

Oh sorry @ArabellaScott you beat me to it!!!

And we never found out what he decided to use instead of Daddy which is why I ploughed on to the end

I see he has a lot of pink going on. Just in case anyone might - ya know - mistake him for an ordinary man.

Soooo at one of the most important moments in a human life, the birth of a baby, the person who presumably provided 50% of this baby's DNA is unhappy at being called the child's father?

He's going to be a terrible parent isn't he.

How many therapy sessions is Daddy going to need to come to terms with this?

well, shockingly, it seems they are the type of person to create a narrative that suits him.

what an utter cockwomble… (sorry if it’s not gender nuetral enough for them)

Yes it is.

Plus, as the twins spent the next two weeks in special care at two different hospitals – which meant I met multiple different medics day and night – it soon became clear that defaulting to binary parental names was going to make gaining access to these spaces and administrative systems a lot easier.

I'm enraged. The babies were poorly enough to need to be transferred to a different hospital - how could ANY parent in those circumstances be thinking literally any thought except "omg omg I hope my babies are ok, when can I next see them" on a loop.

Since this lovely couple had twins maybe he could have one call him daddy and the other call him mommy?

I do love that he rejected one idea (Baba) as it would be cultural appropriation.

FFS did he not want midwives to focus 100% on the health of the mother and baby? Totally inappropriate point to force someone into the mental gymnastics required when language creases to be about communication.

It's fine to have an identity of course, but why does this one require so much work of others? Why not forge a sense of identity from doing something positive for society? Then everyone wins.

If I were a more judgemental person* I'd say he seems like a rather average male in all ways and the NB identity was an attempt at compensating.

*Who am I kidding. I judged.

the narrow ideas we are fed about binary genders don’t sit well with me. I don’t identify with any gender,

Aaaaaaahhhh how are these people so hard of thinking?

Nor do I mate! Nor do most people! Tear your loving gaze away from your navel and have a look around!

You can't actually reject the gender stereotypes for your sex by denying that you have a sex... that is reinforcing the stereotypes you ocean-going numpty!

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we live in hope

So the babies had to go into the NICU and all he is worried about is whether he's called Daddy or they/ them. Right....

And yes way to make the pregnancy and birth all about him! Like no self-obsessed selfish arse of a bloke has ever done before....

I have a twelve year old boy. I know answer to "bruh".

Now, not know.

Ikr

Ask any unmarried woman who's been called Mrs, any person with a misspelled / mispronounced foreign name; when you work with the public sometimes you need to suck it up for the greater good, especially In healthcare. You're not the centre of the universe anymore pal.

How on earth did any woman allow him near enough to get pregnant.

He's a walking ick.

Or Dick