<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: Do Lesbian Moms Make Better Parents? (Yup Sorry, NOM!)</title> <atom:link href="http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/</link> <description>The World&#039;s Most Popular Independently-Owned Website for Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:29:18 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>By: Sapphicsass</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20056</link> <dc:creator>Sapphicsass</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:11:49 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20056</guid> <description>You&#039;re cute. If I could hug you over the internet, you had better believe that you would be getting yourself hugged right now.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re cute. If I could hug you over the internet, you had better believe that you would be getting yourself hugged right now.</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20056" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20056-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Heather</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20046</link> <dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:34:27 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20046</guid> <description>agreed</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>agreed</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20046" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20046-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: laneia</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20023</link> <dc:creator>laneia</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20023</guid> <description>i&#039;d like to start by saying that i am obvs a better mother than anyone ever on this planet or any neighboring planets. just ask my 4 year old - he&#039;s in his room watching Sprout while i type on this computer. I LOVE THIS HEADLINE AND I LOVE ALL CAPS. the father of my children is complete dumbass, which actually says more about me than it does his parenting skills, i suppose, but i hate it when ppl say that children need fathers. children need love and attention and pants that fit and proper shoes and green vegetables and lots and lots of books. and 24-hr children&#039;s programming HELLO.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i&#8217;d like to start by saying that i am obvs a better mother than anyone ever on this planet or any neighboring planets. just ask my 4 year old &#8211; he&#8217;s in his room watching Sprout while i type on this computer. I LOVE THIS HEADLINE AND I LOVE ALL CAPS.<br /> the father of my children is complete dumbass, which actually says more about me than it does his parenting skills, i suppose, but i hate it when ppl say that children need fathers. children need love and attention and pants that fit and proper shoes and green vegetables and lots and lots of books. and 24-hr children&#8217;s programming HELLO.</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20023" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20023-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Bren</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20017</link> <dc:creator>Bren</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20017</guid> <description>That is hilarious...Did you see that comment Friday nominee for sure!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is hilarious&#8230;Did you see that comment Friday nominee for sure!</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20017" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20017-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Sapphicsass</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20015</link> <dc:creator>Sapphicsass</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:55:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20015</guid> <description>Is it just me or do Cat Cora and her partner look strikingly similar?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it just me or do Cat Cora and her partner look strikingly similar?</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20015" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20015-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Vikki</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20014</link> <dc:creator>Vikki</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:48:06 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20014</guid> <description>Jess, did you read the comments here before crying heterophobia?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jess, did you read the comments here before crying heterophobia?</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20014" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20014-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Jess</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20013</link> <dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:01:44 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20013</guid> <description>Oh c&#039;mon, you can&#039;t be supporting such a &quot;finding&quot;, do you? Let&#039;s do a little switch on the title: &quot;Straight parents make better parents&quot; or &quot;Lesbian mothers are worse at parenting&quot;. Now won&#039;t you sense the homophobia in such statements? If you do, then the same should go to this so called &quot;finding&quot;. It&#039;s heterophobic, it&#039;s quite discriminatory. If gays keep talking about equality, or nondiscrimination, then they shouldn&#039;t be hypocrites.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh c&#8217;mon, you can&#8217;t be supporting such a &#8220;finding&#8221;, do you? Let&#8217;s do a little switch on the title: &#8220;Straight parents make better parents&#8221; or &#8220;Lesbian mothers are worse at parenting&#8221;. Now won&#8217;t you sense the homophobia in such statements? If you do, then the same should go to this so called &#8220;finding&#8221;. It&#8217;s heterophobic, it&#8217;s quite discriminatory. If gays keep talking about equality, or nondiscrimination, then they shouldn&#8217;t be hypocrites.</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20013" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20013-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: riese</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20002</link> <dc:creator>riese</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:59:02 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20002</guid> <description>omg does everyone realize this is my actual mom commenting? JUST SAYING.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>omg does everyone realize this is my actual mom commenting? JUST SAYING.</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20002" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20002-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Sarah</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-20000</link> <dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:45:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-20000</guid> <description>It&#039;s actually an ethical thing. They have to make it clear when a photo is posed vs. candid. But yeah it would&#039;ve been nice if they could&#039;ve found some real live lesbian parents to sit for a portrait. Oh well.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s actually an ethical thing. They have to make it clear when a photo is posed vs. candid. But yeah it would&#8217;ve been nice if they could&#8217;ve found some real live lesbian parents to sit for a portrait. Oh well.</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-20000" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-20000-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Lindsey P</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-19999</link> <dc:creator>Lindsey P</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:34:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-19999</guid> <description>Don&#039;t be alarmed, public, lesbians are still fugly! gawd I was offended.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t be alarmed, public, lesbians are still fugly!<br /> gawd I was offended.</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-19999" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-19999-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Marci</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-19966</link> <dc:creator>Marci</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:35:58 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-19966</guid> <description>Aren&#039;t our relationships before children already super visible? I can&#039;t imagine what having kids would do to that. I&#039;m the only lesbian that a lot of straight people know and that puts pressure on me to make my relationship look perfect. Having kids would put even more emphasis on having to represent healthy well-adjusted lesbianism. But kids can be embarrassing and sometimes I forget to do the dishes, and we all know where thy goes (I had to think for about five minutes for something we argue about, so there&#039;s that). Anyway it happens.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aren&#8217;t our relationships before children already super visible? I can&#8217;t imagine what having kids would do to that. I&#8217;m the only lesbian that a lot of straight people know and that puts pressure on me to make my relationship look perfect. Having kids would put even more emphasis on having to represent healthy well-adjusted lesbianism. But kids can be embarrassing and sometimes I forget to do the dishes, and we all know where thy goes (I had to think for about five minutes for something we argue about, so there&#8217;s that). Anyway it happens.</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-19966" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-19966-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Brandi</title><link>http://www.autostraddle.com/sorry-nom-but-lesbian-moms-make-better-parents-than-yall-bam-20318/#comment-19939</link> <dc:creator>Brandi</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:24:20 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=20318#comment-19939</guid> <description>Yes! I did see the &quot;posed by models&quot; caption. What the hell?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes! I did see the &#8220;posed by models&#8221; caption. What the hell?</p><div class="CommentRating"> <img style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: none;" id="up-19939" src="http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/plugins/comment-rating-pro/images/5_14_gray_up.png?9d6e10" alt="Thumb up"  /> <span id="karma-19939-up" style="font-size:12px; color:#333333; padding-right:10px;">0</span></div>]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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