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NYT's Gonna NYT: Paper Uses Father's Day to Pretend Being Trans Can Make a Woman a 'Father'
From both me and The New York Times, I’d like to wish all the misogynists out there a belated, happy bad-gender birthing parent day, known to the sane world as “Father’s Day.” Hope you had a good one, you chauvinistic jerks.
Now, for the rest of us, Father’s Day is what it’s supposed to be: A day to honor our fathers. Nothing more, nothing less. Let dad sleep in. Treat him to breakfast. Buy him a present. That sort of thing. Familial, loving, anodyne, and uniting.
Those are four words that can never be the north star of any piece in the New York Times, however, particularly in the opinion section. No, every holiday is an opportunity to get political. As a reluctant subscriber, I’m patiently waiting for “Fat-Shaming Santa Must End” or “How the Easter Bunny Narrative Ignores the Myxomatosis Genocide.”
While I’m anticipating those with bated breath, however, I can marvel at this piece from Sunday, titled on the newspaper’s website as: “What I Learned About Parenting as a Trans Dad.”
What the author, Zach Ellams, actually means is, “What I Learned About Parenting as a Woman Who Pretends She’s a Dad.” (It’s........