thinly veiled
My daughter looks a little like both of us. And not really anything like either of us. She does, at this point, have light skin and blue eyes though. Which sometimes turns into comments from strangers along the lines of, "Wow! She looks exactly like her mother". This really just seems like a socially acceptable way of saying, "She doesn't look very Indian".Now my partner and I can laugh and write this off as naivete, given that she definitely shares some of our physical characteristics on closer inspection. But I can only imagine what adoptive or non-biological parents must feel. "She doesn't look anything like you!" - No shit, Sherlock! And this affects my ability as a parent, how?
Bloody HeteroNorms!
posted by shreddd @ 12:47 PM
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