'I remind myself, she is not becoming a girl or a woman. She’s becoming whatever she will be.'
After Bryant’s death, celebrity fathers like The Rock, Levar Burton and Aaron Paul started employing the term as a hashtag toThe hashtag quickly started trending, with countless posts by men expressing love for their daughters. It’s become ubiquitous, with the hashtag emblazoned for Father’s Day on T-shirts and coffee cups.
I am glad to be done with whatever past conceptions we had of what it means to be a man. I never really fit into that “boys club” anyway. I think parenting a daughter is about making space for them to grow to be who they want to be, to help them be aware of the history of harm done to them by men, as well as the potential to overcome those obstacles we’ve thrown in their path.
I parent my daughter differently because I have been conditioned to treat women differently. That’s not an excuse, but a recognition of the problem. What’s more, the world has changed ― is changing ― and our ideas of what gender is or can be have changed too. Molly is a girl because we assigned her that gender at birth based on how her body looks but, of course, we don’t know what gender Molly feels or will feel in the future. Whoever she is, her mother and I will love and support her.
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