2012年6月4日星期一
Why do you accept to accept "boy"
Same goes with McDonald's. Why do you accept to accept "boy" blessed meal or "girl" blessed meal -- why can't you just accept the themed toy your kid wants after allotment a gender to it? All this does is accessible up accidental conversations amid my kids -- one wants a boy affair (hurled at the adolescent one as a criticism), no I insist, it isn't a boy thing, it's a YOU thing. It's a affair she likes, or it's a affair the added one likes, it's not boy things or babe things, boy or babe shouldn't matter, we don't charge to accredit acceptation and gender if we are 3. It is CRIMINAL that she has to action this in her own way and try to accomplish faculty out of it because she goes on to say "But I am a GIRL" -- and she is so confused.
She's a air-conditioned cool little babe who loves pirates, dinosaurs and air-conditioned heroes and the alone bodies who assume to yield affair with that are the abutting minded, absolutely sexist apparent bodies alive at American companies. These are the actual bodies who are unnecessarily ambagious my kid and dictating to her what girls should wear, what they should play with, what they like to watch. Except she doesn't -- and she won't.
Oh, and she aswell doesn't wish to abrasion a superhero shirt with a abandoned searching Bat Babe or Admiration Woman. She wants able babe superheroes except she can't clear it that well, all she knows how to do is adios those things -- and accurately so.
It's no admiration that she says things to me like "Only boys are superheroes mommy" and I am larboard with accomplishing a atrocious Google seek to acquisition age-appropriate examples of changeable superhero role models. All of this leaves me in a brain-teaser -- do I abutment the Gap's toddler boy superhero band -- by purchasing a few of the things for my babe -- or do I ban them from our abode all calm in a feminist beef because it is so arrogant to attending through the allegory accouterment options offered to babe and boy toddlers at that store. Gap isn't the alone aggregation accusable of this -- they just are the ambition du jour because of the email they broadcast recently.
What do you think? Do you acquisition this at home? Is it me -- or accept we had abundant of this and it's time to appearance kids as added nuanced, complicated, advanced bodies who adore a array of things and don't charge the gender assignments the adults wish to advance on them?
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