It's interesting
as the arguments in place are less about the subject matter at hand (gender fluidity) and more about the context in which they are presented (LOOK AT NEW LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME)
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 16 Sep 2019, 16:25,
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That's kinda the issue as far as I'm concerned.
You don't need to force gender fluidity on children. They are - and always have been more than capable of making their own choices about what toys to play with and what clothes to wear. All you need to do as a parent is to ensure that you don't make those choices seem like the wrong choices.
I'm going to be a bit presumptious here, but if their child is male - I bet Hobbit there would be a bit disappointed if he naturally chooses to gravitate towards traditionally male toys and steers away from the traditionally female. And I bet in that situation, there will be a bit more prompting from the parents than they'd like to admit.
At the end of the day, they're children. They change their minds about stuff fucking constantly. As long as they're not causing any harm to themselves, just fucking leave them to it.
You don't need to make a (literal) big song and dance about something kids have been doing since the concept of gender without any input from adults.
The issue these fuckwits should be tackling is not the child's imagined unwillingness to play with non gender-traditional toys, it's with some parent's unwillingness to allow their children to play with those non gender-traditional toys.
This whole thing is a lot more about them than it is about their poorly named son/daughter, who is likely going to end up with no end of issues when they're older - not because they were raised 'gender fluid', but because they've been raised by narcissistic fuckwit hippy parents on a bloody houseboat.
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^ what xhe said
It's the trumpeting The Message at kids I object to. You don't need to have any sort of single-issue workshop bullshit. Just teach them not to be cunts and let them get on with it.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 16 Sep 2019, 17:09,
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I think you're right but mainly because I have more issue with the latter.
i care nothing for anyone's identity, choice, preference, whatever but the whole LOOK AT ME that is so embedded in culture these days is beyond me. If this 'couple' had carried on as they were, quietly followed their owns beliefs, morals or ideology...fair play.
But it's 'Look at how progressive we are! Look at how in tune with modernity we are! LOOK HOW WRONG YOU'VE BEEN!'
And don't even get me started on reality tv.....
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NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Mon 16 Sep 2019, 16:55,
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