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Found this on Yahoo!
http://www.inquisitr.com/315554/german- ... aring-son/

In somewhat of a duplicate article, the comments on the bottom of this one makes me proud to be a parent, and proof that more acceptance is out there...
http://www.advocate.com/society/modern- ... loving-son

Good for them! Wish my dad did that

A good parental role model!

The picture of the two of them in the Advocate article is very sweet.

When Nils Pickert moved his family from open-minded West Berlin to a more conservative small southern German town, locals rolled their eyes at his dress-wearing son. His 5-year-old boy became too embarrassed to put on his favorite frocks.

Pickert decided to teach his son a lesson in self-confidence and started wearing skirts around town himself.

“I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts,” Pickert told the German feminist magazine EMMA. “He didn’t make friends in doing that in Berlin already and after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy and dress in a skirt myself.”

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/08/3 ... ssing-son/

I have mixed feelings about this. This is the kind of publicity we need, and I'm really glad the five-year old is getting the support from his dad. I guess what gets me is it's showing me how far we have to go, in that dad's actions seem bizarre to me. Again, I think it's the right thing to do. I just wish it didn't seem so strange. Part of this comes from me not caring too much for androgyny. Yet I don't think this dad should put on a wig and breast forms, either--his wearing a skirt is exactly the right amount of dressing to show his support. So I'm on both sides of the fence here. Dad is 'doing it right,' and at the same time, I guess I wish he didn't have to do it at all!--that he could just support the son the way you'd support him in little league, or support him in cub scouts. But this is a radical concept, and it takes radical actions to bring it into the mainstream.

I think we already had a thread on this somewhere, which I responded to by saying I liked one of the pictures accompanying the story. Strictly speaking, the father is doing the "man in a dress" (well skirt) look deliberately rather than how a fair number of us end up doing it, inadvertently. I mean he is CDing, but not.

Strangely enough the thing it reminds me of is when the Nazis decided to send the Danish Jews off to camps and the Danish king stood up and said "we're all Jews here" (all similar). The Jews didn't get sent to the camps - which just goes to show, I guess.

Hi Anthony--
I ran "crossdressing dad" through the search function, and didn't get any other articles on this forum. If there are, we'll scrunch them together. I don't claim to be an authority on the search function, though. The article just showed up in our local paper today.

No matter how people react to this dad, he is giving his son a wonderful lesson in taking action, not just talking.

I had forgotten about the Danish king action concerning the Jewish people in Denmark. I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich many times, but that story escaped me. The king went against the opt-repeated lines about, "They came for the communists, but I was not a communist, so I didn't speak up..."

Hi Anita,

I did the egotistical thing of searching my own posts and came up with:

http://crossdressers-forum.com/forums/v ... 21&t=14530

OK, I see that my search must have only looked for titles, because the word 'dad' does appear in Ami's post. On another forum I go to, they combine posts that cover one topic. How do we do it on here?