Florida Family Policy Council "mistakenly" uses wrong photo of lesbian parents

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**LuciusAR**

The Florida Family Policy Council [a conservative Christian organization] sent out a message about a judge’s ruling to allow a lesbian couple to adopt a relative’s child they had been fostering. The FFPC, which opposes gay adoption, sent out an alert to its members and including an image of the couple... well, in theory. On the left is the photo included with the alert; on the right is a photo of the actual couple.
It’s very obvious use of a stereotype what lesbians look like as a scare tactic. The actual couple doesn’t fit the ideal of the androgynous-looking, angry, mannish lesbian couple. They look like nice middle or upper-middle class professional women who can raise a child perfectly well. They’re attractive by mainstream heterosexual norms of femininity. They look happy and non-threatening.They are simply not sufficiently menacing.

As Nicole points out, the couple on the left isn’t just a stereotype of lesbians, it’s associated with a particular working-class aesthetic, especially the mullets. They aren’t thin and conventionally attractive like the couple on the right.

The FFPC says the use of the wrong image was a mistake. Though it seems they’ve made similar errors before when alerting members about gays and lesbians trying to adopt children.

**Frazzled**

I'm sure someone somewhere cares. Maybe in Florida?

In other news the world is round.

**agnosto**

Proper use of quotes with "mistakenly".

Of course I can't say anything; the idiots in my state's congress are trying to pass a law that will require schools in the state to boot out all "undocumented" children. Apparently noone's thought to tell them that it would break federal law but then I'm not sure the rednecks that get elected here know how to read anyway.

**dietrich**

That's two women in the left picture?

**olympia**

The right is afraid that if lesbians are allowed to look 'normal' it will be hard to tell them apart from the breeders.

**Commissar Molotov**

And here's a picture of the Florida Family Policy Council:

**Frazzled**

Commissar Molotov wrote:And here's a picture of the Florida Family Policy Council:

**dietrich**

Commissar Molotov wrote:And here's a picture of the Florida Family Policy Council:

The dog is the only one with all of his teeth!

**Tyyr**

Hey! My wife does not wear curlers!

**barlio**

dietrich wrote:
Commissar Molotov wrote:And here's a picture of the Florida Family Policy Council:

The dog is the only one with all of his teeth!

He's probably the only one that cleans his butt on a regular basis.

Is that a guy or girl in the background?

**ginger_nid_dude**

Commisar Molotov, you win 1 free internet

**olympia**

Which one is the pitcher and which one is the catcher?

**Pipboy101**

olympia wrote:Which one is the pitcher and which one is the catcher?

Do your really want to know. I do not think there is enough bleach in the world to wipe that stain from my brain.

**Frazzled**

**Million**

Those mullets are purest win

**Lint**

I'm pretty sure that's a hetero couple on the left. The mullet in back is definitely a dude.

Which one is the pitcher and which one is the catcher?

Lesbians don't pitch or catch.

**Corpsesarefun**

Lint wrote:I'm pretty sure that's a hetero couple on the left. The mullet in back is definitely a dude.

Which one is the pitcher and which one is the catcher?

Lesbians don't pitch or catch.

SQUAD BROKEN!
RETREAT!

**Albatross**

MY WILL IS UNDONE!

**Xca|iber**

EVEN A WARPED MIND CAN SEE THE ODDS STACKED AGAINST IT!

**Noble713**

Commissar Molotov wrote:And here's a picture of the Florida Family Policy Council:

Hot blonde in the background with a rifle? I could plan a family with her...

**grizgrin**

Only if you bashed the offsprings head in with a rock and tried again with someone else.