I'm with you on this. I have nothing against fighting against gender stereotypes, the whole blue and pink thing is outdated. However, I do wonder how many of these gender less children's parents are doing it because their children have requested it, or because they are just desperately woke. I have a couple of friends on FB who have gender neutral kids and I don't mean to make assumptions but both sets of parents are massive hipsters. Its like has your little boy requested to wear pink and have long hair or is this something you've pushed on him to be current? Its not even like he is scared of the hairdressers either as his haircut is very trendy long, as in the fringe is cut in a certain style so it's a choice to have it long. If he likes it long, fair enough but I'd bet money his parents had more say over it.I think going deep into such topics at a young age is damaging. It needs to be nuanced and a lot of critical thinking should be involved, which children generally don’t have. Introducing it now would be very confusing I would imagine.
A work colleague likes to harp on about her gender-less approach to raising her sons. I think it’s great not to enforce gender stereotypes on your children, my conservative parents never did and I was what you would probably call a tomboy. However, with my colleague it seems so forced. She recently posted a selfie of her and her son getting manicures, I wonder if he actually wanted to or was coerced into doing so for the sake of a supposedly progressive Facebook post. She also announced the other day he had to sit in on her getting a wax! He’s about 4, what’s the need?
My opinion only of course, someone with experience of child psychology may tell me I’m looking into this too muchWill try not to derail the thread.
The fact Cathy is teaching her daughter to "interrogate" people about it aswell is just unreal. Why not teach her to just mind her own business, let people have their own opinions and be kind ffs
Does she acknowledge her privilege in that? I wish companies wouldn’t cower to this bullshit.
) battle until people counter it together. I’ll admit I’m even too scared too though, people sadly lose their jobs due to people like her trying to call them out or cancel them.
