Posted on 07/11/2017 1:54:41 PM PDT by Trump20162020
For starters, gender-reveal parties don't actually reveal gender—they reveal anatomy. Gender is a wholly different thing, inextricably tied to the social constructs around it. (Fun fact: Blue used to be the color most associated with little girls, due to its association with the Virgin Mary. But Hitler—yes, Hitler—feminized the color pink by forcing gays to wear triangles in that shade during World War II.) A gender reveal conflates the two.
Projecting gender perceptions onto a fetus becomes especially thorny when you take into consideration that, globally, one in every 1000 to 1500 children is born with a visible form of Difference of Sex Development (DSD), which means being neither entirely male nor female, since the chromosomal/genital makeup falls somewhere in between—an enlarged clitoris capable of erections, for instance. (Broader definitions of DSD put this number closer to 1 in 100 children.) Then there are the millions of kids assigned a sex at birth with which they don't align: 150,000 American teenagers identify as transgender. In a ritual that celebrates only a binary way of thinking about identity, we're leaving a cross-section of the population out, adding to a culture of trans and intersex shame. And for what? Confetti poppers?
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmopolitan.com ...
Bill Nye, is that you?
I've never heard anyone say 'gender' is anything other than a synonymous word for 'sex' until the last few years.
Dear parents to be: stop buying Cosmopolitan.
Cosmo has gotten more obscene than a gynecological exam.
I wonder how her kids turned out?
“Hitler—feminized the color pink by forcing gays to wear triangles in that shade during World War II.) A gender reveal conflates the two.”
Bull$hit. Every geezers house in the 50s had a blue boy and pinkie print on the wall. The original paintings dated from 1779.
And people wonder why liberals keep losing elections......
LOL, exactly right. I was thinking the same thing.
Gender neutral is that anything like the idea of unisexuality, the 1970’s nonsense of how some day all men are going to be women and all women are going to be men and we will all be one uni=sex. lolololol Let’s Celebrate Gender! Hurray for Men and Women! Hurray for Male and Female! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
What a bunch of judgemental b.s.. Or is it just plain mental b.s.? Sounds like discrimination to me. Or a guilt making mind game meant to harm those who might listen and take this baloney seriously.
July 9th, 2017: This happens:
One dead, eight wounded after shooting at Ohio gender-reveal party
nydailynews.com/ | : Sunday, July 9, 2017, 4:48 PM | Meera Jagannathan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3567952/posts
Coincidence?
Let's just imagine if it had been an article on a right-wing site.
it was only a week or two ago that I first heard the term “gender reveal party”.
I learned about it from “Bringing Up Bates”....who says you can’t learn anything from the UP channel.
Now you do. They also invented second hand smoking and animal rights
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