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Dear Parents-to-Be: Stop Celebrating Your Baby's Gender
Cosmopolitan ^ | July 9, 2017 | Diane Stopyra

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 ...


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: mentalillness
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To: mjp
Maleness and femaleness as a gender identity is a continuum.

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.

41 posted on 07/11/2017 3:13:13 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Dear parents to be: stop buying Cosmopolitan.


42 posted on 07/11/2017 3:14:09 PM PDT by ex91B10
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To: Trump20162020

Cosmo has gotten more obscene than a gynecological exam.


43 posted on 07/11/2017 3:14:38 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Trump20162020

I wonder how her kids turned out?


44 posted on 07/11/2017 3:17:01 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Trump20162020

“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.


45 posted on 07/11/2017 3:50:14 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Trump20162020

And people wonder why liberals keep losing elections......


46 posted on 07/11/2017 4:01:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: sparklite2

LOL, exactly right. I was thinking the same thing.


47 posted on 07/11/2017 4:14:11 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Wiser now

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!


48 posted on 07/11/2017 5:05:39 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: Trump20162020

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.


49 posted on 07/11/2017 5:11:23 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. Beware of Mind Games.)
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To: Trump20162020
July 9th, 2017: Cosmo publishes this article.

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.

50 posted on 07/11/2017 6:11:41 PM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: eclecticEel

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.


51 posted on 07/11/2017 7:36:30 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: BBell

Now you do. They also invented second hand smoking and animal rights


52 posted on 07/12/2017 5:40:43 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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