Summary: Single mom, Yvette Vasquez, from Fort Worth dressed up like a dad to attend her sons “Donunts with Dad” event. She wore a plaid shirt, fake mustache, baseball cap, and a puff of cologne. When Yvette pulled up to Sue Crouch Intermediate School she was unaware of the event until she noticed all the cars. She rushed home to change and with the help of her son, Elijah, telling her when she was “manly” enough. She wanted to be able to make her son happy, because there had been other events that Elijah was unable to participate in because it involved dads. When she walked into the school she got many mixed stares; some dads supported her in trying to make her son happy and others were uncomfortable with her decision.
Analysis: This article was released by CNN updated on September 5th, 2016, written by Doug Criss. When reading the article on how the single mother dressed up to be a father to make her son happy, reminded me of Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner received many stares and multiple different opinions, but disregarded people’s judgement. Caitlyn continued to make herself happy, just like Yvette didn't let the stares stop her from making her son happy.
I think that's sweet that a mom just wanted to make her kid happy especially since there was no dad figure for her child. I'm glad she didn't care what anybody else thought and was just there for her son.
ReplyDeleteThis mother's actions are, to put it plainly, utterly awesome. However, I am not sure if I would correlate her actions to Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn has said disrespectful remarks about the rest of the LGBTQ+ community, including transgender individuals that do not fit gender roles. Also, this mother is not actually transgender. Gender expression does not have to align with societal beleifs in regards to gender identity, and breaking gender roles is rad, but this mother is unlikely to face the violence (physical and verbal) directed towards actual transgender individuals (although it is a plus that she, unlike Caitlyn, doesn't use her status to disparage the queer community despite being a member). I do think it is unfair that schools presume that their students have both a mother and father, though. Once a Spanish teacher charged my class to write a description of our mother and one of our father, and her response to a student telling her that he lived with his aunt was not "write about a male and female family member, then," but rather, "well then write about the parents you WISH you had."
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This is so amazing because not any old parent would go out of there way just so that their kid could have a "dad" at the breakfast.
ReplyDeleteI love that this mother was so bold and uncaring to do whatever she needed to make her child happy. I think this really speaks for how we need to work toward a much more gender neutral society in general and become more accepting of non-tradition family set-ups. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDelete-Linnea Soderlund