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Nice. I wish more people were like this dad.

and I'm crying.

Aww this is so sweet! It reminds me of something Bernie Mac said. In one of his stand up routines that I cannot remember why I was watching, he said that he told his daughter she was beautiful every day because that way she wouldn't just fall for the first guy who told her she was pretty and instead would say, "Oh yeah? Well my daddy tells me that EVERY. DAY." I thought that was cute!

That's pretty sweet!!

I hope he's just as happy if his daughter finds a woman to love!

@sorrycharlie @mrbee: He responded to several comments with the same thought/question.

15 hours ago (12:34 AM)
Hi Julie, I can understand your concern about the potential heterosexism of the letter. It's worth pointing out that these sentiments for my daughter were triggered in me by a Google search, which revealed countless articles about how women try to keep men interested. That naturally led to a post concerning men and women. But the message of the post has no conditions: my daughter's worth is unconditional, regardless of whether or not she identifies as a lesbian, becomes a nun, runs a corporation and chooses a career over family, etc. She need do nothing or become anything to be interesting to anyone. She already is.

@emg86: thanks for posting that.

I don't think the letter had to specifically state "or if you find a woman". The sentiment was there. She's perfect the way she is and she needs to meet someone who will accept her for her.

It almost annoys me that everything in life these days has to be made acceptable to everyone and everything (and I'm a HUGE LGBT supporter). The letter was amazingly touching, can't it be appreciated for what it was?

@Alivoo01: Yea, I guess, this is just something I really don't (and maybe never will) understand.

@mrbee: haha You didn't annoy me. It annoys me that you have to adjust your writing to allow for that. I just don't understand it, that's all. I am really not annoyed though!

I'm never going to talk to my children in real life that way (Oh honey, when you meet a boy or girl, blahblahblah), so why would I do it on paper (or the tubes)?

@mrbee: That definitely could be. Do you do it because you want them to know the option is available?

ETA: I did not mean at all to threadjack! SORRY! I'm just genuinely curious.

@mrbee: You don't annoy me either! Maybe I'm old school so no matter what the pronoun used is, I take it as it applies to both male and female so when people make a big ordeal about it, I see the bigger picture aka the context not the fact that it's singling out a person. However, you do bring up a good point about addressing it in real life. I never thought about that!