Posted on 06/23/2013 7:19:55 AM PDT by mkleesma
I’m A Boy - The Who
(Pete Townshend)
One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I’m a boy
My name is Bill and I’m a headcase
They practice making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend ages taking hairpins from my hair
Chorus 1
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But my ma won’t admit it
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But if I say I am I get it
Put your frock on Jean Marie
Plait your hair Felicity
Paint your nails, little Sally Joy
Put this wig on, little boy
Chorus 1
I wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the street
Cut myself and see my blood
I wanna come home all covered in mud
Chorus 2
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But my ma won’t admit it
I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m a boy
I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m a boy
I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m__ a__ boy__
I’d never actually met anyone who was born a hermaphrodite until the 1980’s-when I was working as a workers comp case manager, I had a male client who had born so-he was in his mid-30’s, married and had a naturally-created child with his wife.
Since he had all the necessary male parts, internally and externally, and not a complete set of female ones, he showed a natural inclination to maleness, and had gender assignment surgery as a teen, when testosterone production confirmed what testing had already shown.
He told me about that part of his life in a very open manner, and he was completely comfortable with it, rather then treating it as a dark secret, or with any drama.
There are several famous/well known people who are rumored to have been born hermaphrodites, and been assigned the appropriate gender surgically...
I would give pretty good odds that the mother already is-she is turning the kid into an enabler for her emotional problems...
Homo-perversion activists are always telling us that this is solely a “medical” condition that must be diagnosed through genetics and brain scans. But who wants to bet that this little boy’s parents didn’t get ANY medical advice.
Re: the differences in how men’s and women’s shirts are buttoned. There really is a gender-based reason for this.
you mean, beyond the idea that men are so stupid that it would be hard for them to unbutton the women’s blouse if they couldn’t use the same hand they use for their own shirt?
There are many elements of personality, including what activities a person enjoys, that are unnecessarily considered “gender specific.” As you say, why shouldn’t a girl like to play with trucks, or a boy with babies? It has nothing to do with their biological sex, nor with their adult sexual feelings.
With the way fashions are going, it wouldn’t surprise me to find that nail polish and makeup became common for “masculine” use. It wouldn’t be the first time in history that men’s personal adornment approximated or surpassed women’s.
What’s crazy is for a parent, or the society in general, to pick up on a taste or interest and declare the child IS the other sex because of it.
The statements supposedly made by this child sound like a load of lies that originated in the mind of the mother. Those who know children realize they don’t speak this way. The sickness in this family is in the mother, and is being forced on the child.
Nursing a baby and being able to unbutton with the right hand while holding the child.
Of course, not all women are right-handed but majority often rules.
These cases make me think of women who want a girl, have a boy, and abuse the boy instead of having a second child.
Or like Snooki, who hopes her kid will grow up to be gay.
I totally agree.
I wonder how much of this is rooted in his ultra-liberal parents misinterpreting an infant boy’s normal behavior of wanting to wear makeup or nail polish because his mother is wearing them as being evidence of “transgender” tendencies.
Very likely.
Whatever a 3 year old does comes from their environment - they are not producing their own ideas, but learning from others. The mother seems to want a transgender child - her behaviour is very attention seeking.
When we were kids, my sister and I had a friend who was a boy of about 10, and he loved visiting us so he could raid the fancy dress box, and also play with make up. We all thought it was great fun. We didn't have adults trying to write us into a great script of protest against society.
Two spirited? Intersex?
That might be a good reason, but I can’t find any historical evidence for this being the reason. Further, women’s shirts would require the left hand to be used to unbutton — men’s shirts are set up for right-handed buttoning.
The most commonly accepted explanation is that, in the time period when buttons first came into use, they were for clothing of the rich, and rich women did not dress themselves. So, the buttons on their clothing were set up to make it easy for the maid.
Which also makes it easy for the male, but that doesn’t seem to be the purpose either.
Although I am left-handed, and have no trouble using my right hand to do buttons. It doesn’t seem like a complicated task to learn.
They’re going to run out of letters and numbers soon.
The new phonebook is here!
My heart breaks for this child.
Did it shoot anyone with an imaginary bow and arrow?
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