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In this weird rambling discussion with Camille Paglia, the noted thinker says that she thinks the “Heather has two mommies” idea was created for parents, but telling a kid that both of the people raising him are his mothers would be needlessly confusing for the kid and subject him to teasing when he’s an adolescent. Ms. Paglia notes that she has adopted the son of her (now ex-) lesbian partner. “He’s my adopted son,” she says. But she thinks it would be confusing for her son to call her his mother. Am I the only one who thinks that’s more confusing?

And I don’t understand why saying “These are my two mommies” would subject a child to ridicule but saying “This is my mommy and the other woman is my co-parent who is not my mother” would allow the child to be accepted unconditionally. Surely, it is the fact that they are lesbians, not mommies, that will spark the teasing. It is homophobia, not mommyphobia, that people get teased about.