We just want to be tolerated . . . Part 534.

Remember: queers, transgendered, and other assorted weirdoes just want to be tolerated . . . or so they continue to assert.

Miss Manners received a letter from a man (and I use the term very loosely) who is part of a "two-dad family." He's had his little feelings hurt. It seems that at the school his children attend, they have a "Mom's Night Out" every so often. Is he offended because he wasn't invited? No, he was invited, but he's offended because he doesn't like that they call it "Mom's Night Out." After all, he would like to go, but he's not a "mom." He says the organizers should have checked with him first about that name so that he could have given them the benefit of his expertise in "evolving language."

And of course, the wimpy, PC, Miss Manners agrees with him. She thinks the "organizers would welcome the change [for the name of the group]." She says his polite response just might inspire the mothers to "ponder updating the name."

I can tell you one thing, if I were one of the moms in that group, I'd be inspired to ponder something all right, but it wouldn't be changing the name of my group!

"Dads feel left out of 'Mom's Night.'" The Dallas Morning News; August 1, 2014; p. 1E.