Reply #40: That would be me

[Boomer]

My post #11 was a parody of the original message, one becrying the lot of the spurned sperm donor.

Like you, my first reaction was to proclaim the absurdity of the male-free paradigm that was being criticized. Most gay women I know aren't living in that kind of world.

But I'm not going to deny that a few are. The separatist movement certainly isn't as strong now as it was when I was in college, but I imagine there are still gay women who are doing their best to achieve that male-free vacuum, and some will probably raise their daughters in that environment too. (I have no idea how separatist mothers of sons deal with the situation.)

On the other hand, I don't think this is a common enough circumstance to warrant a rant about superfluous men. There were no strong male role-models in my childhood because my father was an elderly man with no interest in children. Other friends of mine had fathers that simply took off or ignored them after a divorce. There are all sorts of ways for men to be missing from family life, so screaming "lesbian menance" is rather silly, if not downright bigoted.

--Boomer