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Originally Posted by Firestormalpha
Way for you to be unconditionally accepting of the father's feelings about his childs decision.
I've always found that many who declare unconditional acceptance are often the least accepting of those who are less accepting than they see themselves to be. What kind of double standard is that?
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"I want the little girl, not some girl that thinks she is a boy". Unrealism. His child's feelings aren't going to change based on what he wants. "Girl that thinks she's a boy." Derogatory phrasing. And he expresses his pain and anguish in... a text message! Not in a heart-to-heart. He doesn't go and speak with somebody to help himself work out his feelings. No, he sends a text message.
What exactly should I accept about this? And where did I claim to be accepting? I can be very intolerant. I'm intolerant towards ignorance, for starters. I'm intolerant of parents who make their children's lives more difficult than they already are. I'm intolerant of a wide range of -isms, and I'm astonishingly unaccepting towards the misuse of apostrophes.
Then again, I don't have any children. It's not my job to be accepting. A parent's job, on the other hand...