Has Two Mommies: Difference between revisions

Whatever the reason, it's all the same: A family unit that cheerfully ignores the traditional view of a family requiring a father and mother, by having two (or more!) parental figures of the same gender. Nevertheless, one of these characters may be referred to by the opposite gender parental term; sometimes in jest, sometimes to fit with the standard family unit. In fiction, [[Cast Speciation]] will usually result in the two parents fitting into a father and a mother role anyway.

 

 

The name of this trope came from ''[[wikipedia:Heather Has Two Mommies|Heather Has Two Mommies]]'', a children's book by Lesléa Newman and Diana Souza that drew the ire of many conservative groups for its proposed use in the New York school system to portray a lesbian family as normal, wholesome, and happy.

* ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Francine and Katchoo raising their respective offspring together}}.

* In ''[[Janes In Love]]'' we find out that Brain Jane has two dads (who we have every reason to believe are a couple).

* [[Wonder Woman]] had ''an entire island'' of mommies seeing as the Amazons are pretty much a [[One-Gender Race]].

* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Foxglove and Hazel raise a son together (biologically Hazel's via an unwise encounter).

* The ''[[Homestuck]]'' fic ''[[Brainbent]]''{{'}}s Sollux Captor has Pollux Castor and Clubs Deuce, whom he calls "Dad One and Dad Two".

* A couple of the children in ''[[The Emiya Clan]]'' have this as a joke. Arika is technically [[Fate/stay night|Shirou and Saber's]] daughter, but people like to say that she is Saber and [[Fate/stay night|Rin's]] via a strap-on toy, given her [[Tsundere]] nature.

 

== [[Film]] ==

** Also, the episode [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Stimpy's Pregnant"]] of ''Adult Party Cartoon''. The biological impossibilty of Ren impregnating Stimpy is never mentioned or discussed (the line "You said you'd use protection!" spoken by Ren could even indicate that in-universe, this is a regular occurence). Right before the delivery, Ren says "Any minute now, we'll be mommy and daddy". {{spoiler|It turns out Stimpy was not actually pregnant, just constipated. But neither of the "parents" find out about this - the excrement is treated like a child, though obviously, [[Canon Discontinuity|there's no trace of it in later episodes]]).}}

* The episode of ''[[South Park]]'' "Follow That Egg", where Stan and Kyle, and Wendy and Bebe, have to take care of an egg to prove Mrs. Garrison's point that gay couples can't raise children. At one point Wendy calls Kyle saying "I want to see my egg" to which he replies "it's not your egg anymore, Wendy".

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Lionesses in a pride all raise cubs as an egalitarian community; every lioness treats each cub as a mother would.

* The famous female Crow Chief, [[Meaningful Name|Woman Chief]] (born Pine Leaf of the Gros Ventre and abducted by a Crow raiding party as a child), got children with one of her four wives through surrogate fatherhood. According to their culture, the first one who sleeps with a woman who gets pregnant is officially the father. Using this, Woman Chief went through the preliminary motions and got a male volunteer to take over for the rest.

* [[Gangsta Rap]]per [[50 Cent]] had a lesbian mother who had a relationship with another woman.

* Villages and small communities with children probably fit in this category. Instead of it just being the parents job of providing and caring for a child, it is also the job of the rest of the village to help care for them.

* Owing to complicated political maneuvering, the young [[Dynasties From Shang to Qing|Guangxu Emperor]] had "mother" Ci'an and "father" [[Dragon Lady|Cixi]]. Both women had been wives of a previous emperor and were combining their Dowager Empress powers to rule together.

** [[Neil Patrick Harris]] has adopted twins with his partner, making him one of the two daddies in question.

** [[Rufus Wainwright]] and his partner also had a girl, with Leonard Cohen's daughter Lorca serving as the surrogate.

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