Stereotype much? I actually like to cook and clean. I take care of the inside of the house and my husband takes care of the outside. He does some repairs inside too. My hair is also very long. Like I said, I was born female, not assigned. Who knows, your son could grow up and still be male or he could end up telling you “I’m getting a sex change”. You never know, but maybe you should allow him to be who he is, instead of telling who he is and what he must live up to. I always told my sons that they can be anything they want to be, including U.S. president, if they wanted to be president. Keep in mind, they are 1/2 Black, so they didn’t believe it until Barack Obama, who’s also 1/2 Black, became president of the U.S.
Raise him as a human being and let him decide what he wants to be in the end.
No, I’ll raise him as a man. I’m not going to gender confuse him into some That’s you, not me, and for sure I’ll raise him how I see fit.
You don’t even care about women being represented as “Wet Ass Pussies” so nothing you say matters to me. You didn’t even bother to make mention of my post. It’s the same game as it is always with the people on this forum.
Ok dumb question but when did you call them your sons? When they turned 30? This is so goddamn insane. Mriana you called your sons, “sons”? The day they were born. Am I right?
but if I had been the father of a boy, i would have taught him to clean house, to cook, to wash laundry as my wife and me have taught our daughter.
I have been raised without really learning to do theses chores and it has been a true matter when i became an independent bachelor. I have always shared theses chores with my wife, as much on a par as possible, except for the years during which she was retired and i went on working. I don’t think it makes me a woman.
Incidentally i have always done 90 % of the daily shopping
By no means do I want women to fit the stereotypes that filled those roles. I want to see women working in all the hard labor jobs that men do. Women now need to do all the crap jobs men do. No more housewives for women. I expect women to be equal in all things in the name of equality. Men have been doing all the crap jobs alone. We need more female representation and equality in cleaning our sewers.
Exactly! Everyone should learn how to live independently, which includes learning to clean house, do laundry, mow the lawn, simple home repairs, check fluids in the car, change a tire, cook, etc. None of those things, although at one time were considered as such, women’s work or men’s work. Everyone should know how to do those things to live on their own.
Yes, but I didn’t confine them to the stereotypes.
What about househusbands? Nothing wrong with Mr. Mom if he so chooses to stay home and take care of the kids while the mother works. Of course, this is a decision couples make together as a rule, but I think if a guy decides to stay home with the kids while mom brings home the bacon, that’s great too. So we can have housewives and househusbands, depending on what the couple decides.
I would love to be the one at home instead of working a 40+ hour/week job, but that’s not going to happen. Part of my frustration is that I’m not only the one who has to work the 40-hour job, but I’m also the one who has to keep the house from looking like a mess, but that’s a personal issue I’ve been dealing with for a good 5+ years now.
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You think you can brainwash a person into gender identification, rather than Nature?
The comment was about shaping public policy around a minority group.
IMO, it is exactly the opposite. It is the one thing that does not work except as a means of submission and acceptance in spite of personal feelings by that person.
But that does not qualify as “freedom”. That is closer to Sharia Law, the exact opposite of individualism.
It is typical American bravado, "You wanna see Sharia Law? In America we can do it better and more prejudicial than anybody in the world, so there!
Breaking News:
The Architect of Texas’ Abortion Ban Wants to Make Gay Sex Illegal Again
Does that remind of Iran?
Speaking at Columbia University on September 24, 2007, Iranian president at the time Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed: “In Iran , we do not have homosexuals
If a person is born with a brain it is a “person” regardless of gender.
It is the brain, not the body that decides how a “person” whishes to be considered.
The body is a vehicle that provides motility. In nature there are many males who gestate the development of a fetus. Being physically born as a boy or a girl does not necessarily identify the “person” that resides inside the brain.
The problem arises when some big strong hairy, bearded, tattooed person with a willy feels coquettishly girly all the time and feels entitled to go to the ladies. Where others whose appearance matches their feelings more congruently are powdering their noses externally.
That’s the problem, our kids don’t always follow our agenda and wind up surprising us. Suddenly in junior high, or earlier, he starts going Goth and sullen on you, then he might bring home a new term: “Hey dude I’m Flow,” and you’re stuck with figuring it out. Then you have a choice love him or be stupid and resent/hate his choices. One makes life weird and interesting, the other destroys all it touches. Your choice. Lordies knows you won’t change him, you can strengthen or be destructive, but you won’t ‘change’ him.
Forcing your expectations onto a child is the most self destructive thing a parent can do. Not that people don’t survive and live on - but would you rather grow old having good memories and kinship, or a collection of ugly memories and isolation. Some kids aren’t born to be minimes, but that too will come from within themselves, never from having it shoved down their throats.
To me a parents roll is to raise their children according to high standard of ethics, behavior, help them become aware of themselves, instill curiosity in the wonders of the world, while at the same time being attentive and aware of what brings that sparkle to your kid’s eye and encouraging those talents.
But then, I’m the sort of dinosaur who’s gifts to young ones are still confined to books and art supplies. I’ve gotten to watch kids get addicted to those infernal electronic contraptions of every stripe and I think this is not going to end well. Lo and Behold, can’t even sit through the evening news these days it’s so hideous.