Posted on 10/02/2012 8:01:12 AM PDT by massmike
When I was pregnant, almost every nurse, doctor or lab technician asked me the same question: so you guys aren’t finding out the gender, huh? To which, I replied the same way to each medical professional: well, there’s no way to know, is there?
Without fail, the person always looked at me like I’d landed from Mars. But I stuck to my guns: until there’s an ultrasound that can detect a teeny-tiny Barbie house or Thomas The Tank Engine inside a woman’s womb, no parent or doctor on earth can determine the gender of any baby (at least, not until he or she is much older, and then, it might still be a pretty difficult assessment).
Many folks make this mistake. They confuse sex (anatomy, which we can detect in the womb) and gender (a social construction, think “masculinity” and “femininity,” which we can not)— especially when it comes to young children.
And many parents will go way out of their way to police the gender boundaries for their own kids and even kids they’ve never met before.
Just ask Mallory May. Yesterday, the Manhattan mother and her three-year-old son, Oscar were photographed by Brandon Stanton, a local blogger who runs Humans of New York, a site that describes itself as a photographic census of the city— and boy did the picture set off a firestorm of Facebook controversy. There was little Oscar, prancing around his neighborhood, proudly dressed in one of his brand new Halloween costumes: a princess.
He just has wings, that’s not a princess costume.
What the heck has happened to Forbes? I thought they only did rational articles.
Yep.
Old song lyrics: "From Bogart to Bowie, from He-man to She-man..."
America's enemies aren't having any problem raising men and women, though they plan to use some of them even as mobile single-use explosive devices.
Meanwhile we are exploring new ways to fund future therapists..I hate democrats!
How would she like someone dressing her like a hirsute construction worker?
I didn’t see this kid’s father around. Imagine that?
I’ll bet this woman works as an Editor in some NY based magzine and all her male friends are gay. They’re probably just manipulating her to make Junior easier to “harvest” one day.
A Lib talk show host (it might have been warren Tolman)on WRKO a while back bought in to this. He got his daughter two Fire Engines. She called them “Mommy Truck and Baby Truck”.
Do Single Moms do this on purpose so there won’t be another woman in their son’s life that they’ll have to compete with?
Liberals would ignore us, but they can’t get by without two things: our money for their hedomism and our kids for their perversions.
What a world..They encourage boys to be dressed—and TREATED like girls...and about the only couples that are now encouraged to get married anymore..are FAGS... Everyone else is encouraged to just “live together...
I do not really even want to THINK about a 2nd term...
And I live in Hamilton Cty. ohio...
If anybody tried to put an outfit like that on one of my
grandsons they’d pull back a bloody stub!
Lies from the very pit of Hell.
Am I wrong or is it mostly women and gays who are obcessed with gender identity? Not to mention they try and force gender roles on children?
I can remember being a little boy playing pretend and noone would play the part of a fairy.
Infact, you would try to get the other fellow to be the fairy as an insult.
You’re probably right on all counts. When the last of the men fade away, we’ll just run the colors down and run up the chinese or al Qaeda flag and call it quits.
When my boys were about 3, they *really* wanted some fluffy little tutus they saw at the store. Also, at a recent playdate, they had dressed up in the hostess little girl’s princess outfits and had a grand ol’ time. I didn’t panic. I realized what my boys *wanted* — that I hadn’t given them yet — was costumes! I went out and got them some high-bling “boy” costumes — pirates, etc. — and they were happy as clams. No asking for tutus anymore. I think that these liberal moonbats interpret the kids asking for *costumes* as asking for girlie stuff. ALL little kids like costumes! But I think little boys who *insist* on girlie stuff, after being offered boy costumes, are few and far between.
Let boys be boys.
“I’m a boy, I’m a boy, but my mom won’t admit it, I’m a boy, I’m a boy, but if I say I am, I get it.”
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