Gay Parenting

[Beirut]

Do you believe that mixed-race couples should be given preferential treatment in the adoption process over same race-couples?

A topic to discuss, but perhaps best discussed in its own thread.

I see women as individuals, not a homogeneous one that all think and act the same way. I know some women who conform to certain commonly held gender roles and some who do not. I know some who hold traditionally feminine interests and some who do not. I know some who match the descriptors in the study that Rhyfelwyr kindly provided and some who do not.

Indeed. But they all have one thing in common: they're female. Or do females hold no worth in your opinion?

What I have not noticed are clear, defined, and uniquely female differences that cannot be replicated by males, especially in regard to raising children. Even Rhyfelwyr's study spoke in generalities, and did not attempt to mount the case that women have innate personality differences that no man could ever have.

Ever have PMS?

But as you've insinuated over and over again, I'm an idiot who doesn't get it. That's why I need your help to spell it out for me.

I am trying, dear sir. I am trying.

What specific differences are unique only to women that can only be taken from a woman in a straight relationship by her child?

Everything a woman is.

I fail to understand what appears to be a thundering lack of respect for women on your part.

How, specifically, will it benefit the child? What specific elements of life will it enhance?

As the world is roughly half female, as the child was born of a female, will grow to interact, work with, and possibly procreate with a female, it is beyond question that being exposed to a female - a mother - carries great weight.

Walk into a women's lib center and annnouce to the crowd that nothing other than the posssesion of a vagina marks any of them as special.

Then duck. Then run for your life.

I don't understand. You seem to be saying that sexual attraction proves that there is a difference between men and women deeper than "parts". Is that correct, and if so, are you suggesting that sexual attraction is learned from one's parents?

Yes, it is correct. Sexual attraction goes far beyond that simple, yet oh so wonderful, connection of the parts of that fit.

No, sexual attraction is not learned from the parents. But a good deal of how a child will grow to relate with the opposite sex is. Having a mother and a father allows a child a better and more complete view of the human condition.

Also, what if I'm bisexual and get the same emotional satisfaction from having sex with both sexes?

Then you are twice as likely to get laid. Cheers!

Finally, I am not arguing that there is no difference between men and women. In fact, I'm actually taking it further than your rather topical observation - there are differences between every woman and every man. Every individual is different, yet there are no real non-physical differences that are solely female and solely male.

Again, I would submit that if you truly think there are no differences between men and women other than parts, then you need more experience with women.

What are the uniquely male aspects of life that can only be imparted to a child by a man? What are the uniquely female aspects of life that can only be imparted to a child by a woman?

I'm sorry, but if the first twenty or thirty times I explained it did not suffice, I can't see how saying it again here would help.

It is easy to speak in generalities, but apparently much more difficult to try and nail down specifics.

One of the parents is a mother and the other is a father. That's about as specific as it gets.