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.
(, Mon 16 Sep 2019, 16:54, Reply)
