Posted on 01/07/2011 6:34:21 AM PST by Lexluthor69
The following quote appears on the My Princess Boy website:
My Princess Boy is a nonfiction picture book about acceptance. It tells the tale of a 4-year-old boy who happily expresses his authentic self by enjoying “traditional girl” things like jewelry, sparkles or anything pink. It is designed to start and continue a dialogue about unconditional friendship and teaches children — and adults — how to accept and support children for who they are and how they wish to look.
Reading the litany of television/radio programs, magazines and blogs that the author has frequented this seems to be less about a four year old expressing his individuality and more about a self aggrandizing author/mother exploiting her child to sell books.
Children are malleable and impressionable beings. They seek forever to please their parents and fit in socially. They are empty vessels waiting to be filled with the wisdom of those who are charged with their care and well being.
Make no mistake, parents should graciously accept their children for who and what they are; that is not the issue. What parents should not do is exploit their children for financial gain. This is no different that a parent dressing a four year old girl like a Vegas prostitute and parading her across a stage under the pretense of a beauty pageant.
It is not about sexuality or gender assignment issues because a four year old hardly knows what he wants for dinner much less what his sexual preference will be twenty years down the road. But this parent has insured that regardless of the child’s later choices he will be forced to forever live with the fact that he was once “Princess Boy”.
(Excerpt) Read more at silentmajority09.com ...
I do not remember a lot when I was 4 years old but I do remember being way big into hot wheels cars,my tricycle and toy soldiers. Seaseme Street was OK but I’d much rather watch Wild Wild West or Star Trek with my father.
Yeah I remember around 4 when I had a friend over and there was only 2 lunchboxes and my mom gave me the Barbie one - I did not like it.
I do believe that there are some people who believe they were “born in the wrong bodies” - i.e., they think they are members of the opposite gender. Wires certainly can be crossed in people’s brains and I have pity for them. But to reassign themselves by cutting up their bodies or wearing pink tu-tus is no way to deal with what is obviously a deep psychological problem.
But until the AMA stands up to the gay agenda, we are going to see more and more of these crazy scenes.
But I, on the other hand, was a tomboy who loved to play cowboy and indians with my brother and male cousins. Then I wore a tri-cornered hat I got at the Washington Crossing gift shop and played Yankee Doodle all summer long. No Betsy Ross for me!
And yet I grew up to be someone who was wildly into fashion, makeup and boys as soon as I became a teenager.
You must be young. There was no Sesame Street when I was 4. In fact, there was no TV in our Queens walk-up apartment when I was 4. My mom or dad would take my friends and me to the Saturday matinee. At home in the early Fifties, we had comic books, newspapers, magazines, and an encyclopedia to read.
Billy Elliot. The show makes it seem okay, but not to me.
I think given 18-22 years most people spend maturing they have time to figure things out about themselves. I don’t see where being Princess Boy does anything but confuse a small child. The humiliation and loss of self esteem a child might suffer from this seems potentially more damaging then any conceivable benefit. I am really not sure what benefit might actually come from this.
It all started with girls wanting to dress and act like boys, exacerbated by the World War II necessity for “Rosie the Riveter” and other masculine-performing women. It is a natural progression to have the flip side occur.
The Heenes no longer seem "worst family in America"
Hitlers fault.
I don’t think there’s anything inherently “girly” about pink, frilly clothes, or playing with dolls. Those activities are all assigned a gender value by our society, which in many cases is absurd. What is inherently feminine or masculine about a color? How is clothing with excess ornamentation relevant to one’s sexuality more than it is to mere fashion (George Washington wore a powdered wig and lace collars). And what is GI Joe but a “macho” version of Barbie?
And for those who would condemn their sons for their interest in “girly” things, how many of you would as quickly condemn your daughters for playing softball, wearing boxer shorts, or bobbing their hair?
If we’re going to enforce gender roles, then let’s do it across the board. If boys have to be boys, then girls have to be girls.
“And for those who would condemn their sons for their interest in “girly” things, how many of you would as quickly condemn your daughters for playing softball, wearing boxer shorts, or bobbing their hair?”
Softball IS a girls sport. Not sure what you mean by boxer shorts...I can’t think of a ‘macho’ pair of shorts. Bobbing hair is not considered traditionally male, either.
If my youngest daughter wanted to take up competitive weightlifting and complained she couldn’t bulk up the way she wanted, or wanted her hair cut like mine, or wanted to know when she could start smoking cigars...THEN I’d be upset.
“And what is GI Joe but a “macho” version of Barbie?”
Beats me. I always thought there was something weird about a boy wanting to play with ANY dolls...unless it consisted of blowing up his sister’s dolls!
She is exploiting him and does not care a lick for his future mental well-being.
“But I, on the other hand, was a tomboy who loved to play cowboy and indians with my brother and male cousins. Then I wore a tri-cornered hat I got at the Washington Crossing gift shop and played Yankee Doodle all summer long. No Betsy Ross for me!”
“And yet I grew up to be someone who was wildly into fashion, makeup and boys as soon as I became a teena”
Yeh me too but I also remember my Mom giving me a Ballerina doll and other girlie stuff and they didn’t exactly promote my tomboy ways. They sort of ignored it.
If softball is a girl’s sport, you’d better tell that to all the drunks who infest ball fields every summer.
By “boxer shorts” I mean men’s underwear that are like thin shorts. The alternative to briefs.
I used to play with little plastic soldiers a lot. Are those “dolls?”. Where do you draw the line?
Short hair on women has often been considered a social statement. In the 20s, the “bob” was considered a sign of a “fast” girl. In other cultures, womens’ heads were shaved as a mark of shame.
Helen Thomas has short hair.
Rosie O’Donnell has short hair.
Ellen Degeneres has short hair.
KD Laing has short hair.
See a pattern?
“By “boxer shorts” I mean men’s underwear that are like thin shorts. The alternative to briefs.”
If my daughter wanted to wear men’s underwear, I would NOT be a happy camper.
“I used to play with little plastic soldiers a lot. Are those “dolls?”. Where do you draw the line?”
You dress dolls. You blow up soldiers.
“Helen Thomas has short hair. Rosie O’Donnell has short hair. Ellen Degeneres has short hair. KD Laing has short hair. / See a pattern?”
Nope. There are too many pretty women with short hair. But if my daughter wanted her hair cut like mine, I’d be upset.
There’s a difference between a girl being a tomboy and a boy acting/dressing like a girl.A girl can be a tomboy and still be straight.I am and I’m not a lesbian,nor do I think I am “trapped in the wrong body”.I like to be feminine as well.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.