After years of being scolded for gender stereotypes, we have now reached the point of where the very ones who used to do the scolding are now reinforcing gender stereotypes to a ridiculous degree.THus we are at the poing of insanity where likes and dislikes and toys, clothes, etc are defined as boy and girl and where if a boy likes *girl* things, everyone has to deny the facts and pretend he's a girl and vice versa.
Exactly. In the old days parents made their children's hobbies to match the children's genitals. Now they change their children's genitals to match their hobbies. Both are insanity.
Interestingly, when my kids were little, I let them decide what they were interested in and wanted to play with. I never forbade them from playing with items designed for the oppiste sex.
I remember an incident in kindergarten where I was busy building with blocks with the boys. The teacher came over asked why I wasn’t playing house with the girls. So I checked it out and found out the bossiest kids in the class were the *parents*, their friends were the children, and all they were intersted in doing was ordering everyone else around..
So I went back to playing with blocks,
THe teacher came over again and asked the same thing and I told her that these two kids were the parents and were picking all their favorite frineds to be the children and were telling everyone else what to do.
I remember her looking over at the group and then walking in that direction and thinking that that was the end of their fun. And went back to playing with blocks and don’t ever remember it being an issue ever again.