The core idea of this programme, i.e. that gender is socially constructed, is a central tenet of the entire feminist belief system.
How very right you are. I know a woman (a “doctor” of “women’s issues,” if you can believe it) and this is one of her dozens of goofy mantras.
She honestly believes that boys should play with dolls, and that their “supposed preference” for “cops and robbers” or “cowboys and indians” is entirely socially-driven.
The good news is she gave birth to a girl, and does not plan on having any more children. When she was pregnant, myself and others who know her, were praying that she would have a girl. Though she’ll undoubtedly screw her daughter’s head up royally, the damage she would have inflicted on a son would have been monumentally worse.
(PS - where in Ireland? My brother-in-law is from Tipperary. I spent four days there and a week in Dingle a few years back. Dingle may be my most favorite city in the world, after NYC. The music and the food were heavenly.)
Well, Sex on the Brain, the book about the physiological differences between men and women, certainly put the lie to that mirage.
I wish I could remember the author's name, originally she was from the Sacramento CA area.