Posted on 07/20/2018 7:56:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NBC published this video report yesterday about a family in Cambridge, Massachusetts which has decided to raise their 3-year-old twins as “theybies.” That’s a thing, apparently, albeit with a relatively small number of people thus far. The idea is to raise kids without ever referring to them as boys or girls, he or her, or any other binary gender language.
NBC reports only a few hundred parents nationwide are taking this path at present. Even if it’s really a few thousand, that not very significant in the scheme of things. As someone who believes there are innate differences between boys and girls, I can easily imagine both of these kids growing out of this phase on their own, if they’re allowed to do so by their obviously far-left parents.
It does worry me a bit that these parents plan to tell their kids that gender is fluid rather than to tell them that there’s more than one way to be a boy or a girl. Wouldn’t it make more sense to raise boys as boys and then try to avoid some of the stereotypes you think are harmful, i.e. telling them boys never cry?
So, for instance, I wouldn’t start discussing race with my three-year-old because it shouldn’t matter, but if he asks, I’d tell him he’s Caucasian or white and some people are different and that’s all good. I would not tell him race is fluid and that he can be whatever race he feels like he wants to be from year to year.
I’m also not sure it’s a great idea to tell kids gender is fluid at age six when you know 99.9% of the world doesn’t see it that way. Do kids in their elementary school have to call them “they” too? What if the parents of those other kids feel differently about the whole premise behind this? Refusing to assign these kids a gender may be protecting them in some small sense from stereotypes now, but it’s also inviting a lot of additional difficulties that most kids won’t face. It also denies the possibility that there might be some positive aspects of having a gender identity before you become an adult.
As strange as this parental approach seems to me, it also strikes me as inevitable. If you believe, and most people on the left already do, that gender is culturally constructed and that it has nothing necessarily to do with your sex at birth, then what matters is how you feel. It’s the logic of transgenderism applied to toddlers.
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The parents are what I refer to as ‘RATbies.
Setting them up for sex abuse.
Rabies.
The parents should be put in cages so that we could all laugh at them.
DNA don’t lie.
put the parents in a mental institution since they are completely nuts
Let's see. S**t for brains, a**hole, stupid. Nope, no genders there! Guess those are OK!
It’s setting them up for huge insecurity issues.
Gender is perhaps one of the most fundamental aspects of one’s identity, and these “parents” are teaching the kids that they have no core identity.
On top of that, children crave routine and solid boundaries. I cannot imagine that removing these necessary factors from children’s lives can have any effect other than to make them distrusting and insecure.
I have noticed that every president imposes something on the culture. With Reagan, it was machoism. With Clinton, it was insincerity and falsehoods. Bush brought a pro-military culture. Obama gave us a fascination with sexual deviancy. These cultural fads tend to fade away when the president changes; I think that the adoration of sexual deviants will die away too. (Although the pro-military attitude of Bush still seems to be there; I cannot go anywhere in uniform without at least one person thanking me for my service.)
Hopefully the culture of sexual perversions will fade away sooner rather than later, before too many children are made neurotic by “open minded” parents who have no understanding of biology or child psychology.
Libbies...
But, more like...
Confusebies
or Nutties
or Whatties
Too appalling for words. Trying to pretend that boys and girls are the same is like trying to pretend there is no difference between night and day.
ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT GO ALONG WITH THIS BULL SH!T CAN GO TO HELL.
Unless you happen to be one of those poor kids. Then, you are completely screwed. Your life is going to be Hell.
No. I will not accept this.
Ever.
It may become a big thing, but until I die, I will never, EVER see this as any more than child abuse by the parents and dereliction of duty by the state not removing the kids from that environment.
Yes. With adults, I STILL see it as a mental disorder, but if society wants to treat it as something else and encourage them instead of helping them, that is their twisted business.
But kids? Kids? Really? What the hell have we become?
Child abuse.
Let’s call this what it is: media-sanctioned child abuse.
Parents should be charged accordingly for psychological abuse.
Media whores who promote such degeneracy should be charged as accomplices.
These people are sick.
this is what you get when you allow children to run their universities. There are no adults in their world to say, ‘no’.
Look
MORON NEW YORK TYPES
there are TWO SEXES
yes SEXES
Male. Female
GENDER IS A COMPLETELY BULLSHIT TERM
Listen here all you regular folk
Use SEX. not Gender. To describe us humans
The whole thing is so dumb. There are only boy babies and girl babies (and a very very few intersex). How the kids will behave is actually separate from their inherent sex.
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