Comments | heartsdesire456: I like this idea!

heartsdesire456

I like this idea!

May 25, 2011 20:49

Meet the parents who are raising a 'genderless' baby
A Canadian couple has decided to keep the gender of their baby a secret in order to provide it with 'more choice'.
For most of us, as soon as a pregnancy is announced, the gender guessing game begins. And while some like to keep the sex of their baby a secret until the child is born, one ( Read more... )

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rule_number_7 May 26 2011, 01:29:26 UTC

I've noticed (in my life) that more often than not, a guy will get shit for being feminine but a tomboy causes far less reaction. There's some but less than a guy being feminine.

heartsdesire456 May 26 2011, 03:22:54 UTC

Oh definately. As much as there's arguments about male-dominated society, and I'm not saying there isn't sexism towards women, but in today's society women have a TON of things easier than guys as far as I see it. I mean, women can wear both male and female clothes and nobody cares but if a man wears a skirt its taboo, women are trusted with children a lot more than men (like, babysitters/teacher/ect.), and even as far as sexualy! Honestly, its not a big deal in the media today to see lesbians/bisexual women making out or whatever but as soon as they have gay/bisexual guys it's suddenly shocking ( ... )

maytimemagic May 26 2011, 22:17:42 UTC

My mom and a lady at the health center were discussing this article, I didn't chime in since I hadn't read it. I wish I had though cause I totally disagree with everything my mom and this lady were saying. I think it's great what these parents are doing and I wish more parents would do it. I think it would be amazing if we eventually had a society without strict gender "roles". But we have a long way to go before that happens.

heartsdesire456 May 26 2011, 22:27:16 UTC

The problem is people perpetuate them by trying NOT to. Like, I'm not going to bash feminists (though they seem to love bashing me) but most of the time, the feminist agenda tries to promote special treatment for women over men, not equality. Then people go out of their way to NOT discriminate against women and end up discriminating against men. They all mean well but if people would just look at people as 'person', not gender, ethnicity, ect. the world would be a better place ( ... )