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3:08 pm - 01/09/2013

Rosie O'Donnell Debuts Newborn Daughter Dakota



Rosie O'Donnell and wife Michelle Rounds are the proud parents of a newborn baby girl!

The talk show host, 50, and her bride of seven months announced the news moments ago on Twitter, posting a photo of the two of them and their new daughter, Dakota.

"we r thrilled to announce the arrival of r daughter Dakota - #withloveandthanks - AMEN," Rosie posted along with the pic.

No other details about the baby have been released.

Rosie already has four children (Blake, Vivienne, Parker and Chelsea) from her marriage with Kelli Carpenter.

Rosie and Michelle tied the knot in June 2012, days before Rounds went into surgery for desmoid tumors.

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exlenne 9th-Jan-2013 09:37 pm (UTC)
And men have insecurities because society is built around the idea that if they can not provide and head a family then they aren't really men. We've all got insecurities because of our ancestors' antiquated views of life, it's not just women.
effervescent 9th-Jan-2013 09:44 pm (UTC)
You will never convince me that men have as much bs to deal with because of the patriarchy as women do. That's just not how it works, no matter how people try to make it seem like it's equal - it's just not.
exlenne 9th-Jan-2013 09:52 pm (UTC)
Okay. You're wrong, but okay. I've never lived as a woman, but as a gay man I couldn't even begin to keep track of the shit I've been accused of, put through or judged over simply because I am a man. I'm a feminist, my mother and my grandmother and my sister and my closest family members and I want the world better for them. But I simply can't condone or agree with the type of internet feminism that thinks men just have these amazing, wonderful existences just because they're men.

Men commit suicide at a 10:1 ratio over women. Let's not talk about it, they're men, what could they possibly need help with?
effervescent 9th-Jan-2013 10:08 pm (UTC)
Okay, please read over what I've said in this thread and tell me where I said that men do not need help with anything. I didn't say that. What I said was that men do not have it as difficult a time as women do, and I stand by that.

This is always the problem when it comes to discussions of privilege, because everyone instinctively wants to say 'hey, I've had a rough time too', and of course we've all gone through shit. Saying 'these people are shit on due to ______' doesn't erase stuff that happens to other groups, but it's funny how people always instinctively react as though we're saying it does. All I did was say that society judges women and that men don't have as much difficulty in terms of family expectations, and you take that to mean that I'm erasing any difficulty that they might have.
exlenne 9th-Jan-2013 10:12 pm (UTC)
You're right, but please do acknowledge and realize that most of the people with the same intentions as you are saying those things. Take a look around this post, any post. Given enough time I could find several replies to my comments just from today that amount to "oh poor cis straight white men, boo hoo", etc.

So I do begin to get worn down and associate any and all of these comments as coming from the same place. Which I do apologize for. But being inundated day in and day out on ontd with how none of my problems matter because I have a penis, and how all of their problems are my fault because I have a penis, gets to me after awhile.
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