Posted on 04/30/2017 11:17:57 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
That’s the 2nd half of this tragedy... there’s nothing wrong learning to dance and interact with the opposite sex... mom’s framing of the situation to girl up her son is just sick.
Geeze. This story is not as insane as the next one at that link regarding the humiliation non-females feel when we normal people refer to breast feeding as a “natural” female function.
Mine wanted to grow up to be a garbage truck...
I went out with a girl that was in a Modern Dance troupe. She said every one of the males in the troupe was gay.
He’ll grab a dandelion, point it, and say “rat-a-tat! pow! pow!” and then what?
Exactly. What this woman is doing is child abuse.
My son grew up playing soccer and baseball. My daughter did dance. That is how normal people do it.
Biology still has a strong say in a lot of cases.
If this little fellow really is a sensitive soul, however, the extent to which it may be malleable to this treatment could spell serious trouble.
Less sensitive souls may laugh this kind of thing off.
Doesn’t mean one is better or worse in the absolute. All humans are born sinners of some kind.
A Chinook class helicopter parent.
Exactly. Ballet for boys is excellent exercise, in fact. Only football players are stronger. Yes, male ballet dancers are stronger, in better shape than basketball and hockey players. Dancers are not all gay by any means...Peter Martins, head dancer, ballet master of NYC Ballet has a lovely wife and children.
So this idiot mother may be seriously disappointed when her little boy turns into a serious jock thanks to the physicality
And DISCIPLINE of ballet.
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Funny, yeah.
See my post #71
In 4th grade some genius decided we all needed to learn how to waltz. Didn’t take. Girls still had kooties at that age. 7th grade we were starting to pay attention, but a) we had no idea how to dance and b) the guys were listening to Kiss while the girls preferred the Bay City Rollers. By the time the prom rolled around in 12th grade, the father of every girl in the class was signing up to be a chaperone and was freaked out over Billy Idol’s White Wedding.
Guys eventually learn how to dance, but it’s always motivated by gaining the attention and favor of a female who’s not in the family tree.
So ballet is “girlish” to a SJW?
Head explodes
Here is the woman's dialogue from the article:
"...The other day I was sitting in the park with James, 3, when I picked a dandelion and handed it to him as a present. “No way, Mummy,” he said, pushing away my gift. “Flowers are pretty and I’m a boy.” And I thought: That’s it. I’m signing him up for ballet.
Her three-year-old son’s other crimes, which led to the ballet punishment were not liking Frozen and pink popsicles.
McLaren apparently thinks that if her child rejects random feminine tastes now, he’ll reject concepts like “kindness and decency” in the future.
If I want my son to love and respect women, I am going to have to teach him to embrace—and ideally appreciate —“girlish” things. That’s why I’m weaving him a dandelion crown and signing him up for ballet.
I’m going to turn the little alphabet belcher into a proud princess whether he likes it or not..."
This is a women who has twisted ideas about men, kindness, and decency. Simply twisted, and I don't think I am being sensitive here. This woman thinks that if you are masculine, you cannot be kind and decent. That is what her actions say here.
Couple that with her stated intent to force her will and twisted values onto a poor kid who doesn't know squat about what she is trying to do.
What on earth is wrong with her saying something like
"What? You don't want it because it is "pretty"? James, I want you to remember this when you are older, because I know about these things. Someday, you are going to see something pretty, and you are going to want it very much. So, there is nothing wrong with accepting or wanting something pretty. Many things may not be pretty when you look at them, but when you think about them and the things you cannot see, you will understand and appreciate that beauty you can't see with your eyes. There is nothing wrong with being a boy and taking a flower someone gives you. All boys want to be men, not boys. If someone offers you a flower, and you see the beauty in it and accept it, you will be far more than a boy or a man than another boy or man who says he doesn't want it. When you get that flower later in life, you will always remember...I told you it was so, and you will wonder how I knew! So, here...will you accept my flower?"
Instead, she is going to pound it into him with a sledgehammer, and even though thinking people know that one does not have to be a fairy to dance ballet, little boys don't know. It would be one thing if the kid saw ballet and wanted to do it. It is quite different, IMO, to use it as a bludgeon on a three year old kid!
That was my initial reaction as well. Seems someone has quite the not-so-subtle presuppositions buried in the goo between her ears.
I had a frat bro who was in ballet. He was at our chapter for a party and he came to me incredulous. He was aghast because some old fat queen(a closeted friend) had propositioned him.
“Wow, Tim, I can’t imagine how he would ever imagine a guy who does professional ballet in NYC could possibly be gay?”
I was in theater for 5 years and I got several propositions. My nickname was Mia because I looked like Mia Farrow.
But this isn’t even McLaren’s craziest column. In March she published a piece about the joys of breastfeeding another person’s child. Apparently at a Toronto party years ago, she snuck away into a room where a baby of a Canadian Member of Parliament was lying alone in a car seat. She made the baby suck on her tit even though she was neither lactating or pregnant. The father of the baby even walked in on her at the end.
The pageant mom of the 21st cetury. Living vicareously through their children.
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