Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
It could be that pigs have started to fly, or stranger still, I’m going to vote to for whichever government is in power next election, which has totally never happened. Because the strangest thing just did happen. I had a flash thought of: “Maybe our daughter should go to Catholic school.”
Maybe. And maybe I should also teach my kids it’s ok to talk to strangers and chase a ball onto the street. I’ll start sending them out to buy cigarettes. No, these are all bad ideas, just like queers sending their kids to Catholic school.
Let me explain.
In the past, I’ve met queer parents who’ve sent their spawn to Catholic school, and I’ve done what any other level-headed queer parent would do. I assumed they were nuts, never asked why they made their decision, and moved on.
