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To: Ezekiel; GeronL; little jeremiah

Very interesting discussion. I think that another element in the current proliferation of False Identity is that its cultural cachet is inviting more and more attention-seeking adults to project it on their children.

It is normal for young children, 2-6 years old, to be unclear about sex distinction and (social) gender markers. My Patrick didn’t have his hair cut until he was almost 3, and by then it had grown quite long; it was very curly, so the length was obvious only when it was being washed. For a while when he was 4 or 5, he would talk about things that happened “when I was a girl,” by which he meant before his hair was cut. My friend’s little boy, with three older sisters, would pretend he was a girl because he wanted to go to Girl Scouts meetings, where there was always a snack. (She made him a t-shirt that said “Troop 123’s Little Brother,” and gave him snacks!)

Sometimes boys who want to dress up will put on girls’ dress-up costumes or clothes, simply because they’re available. If you provide a ninja costume and a soldier outfit, the same boy will choose those. All these incidents can simply be left behind as the child grows and becomes more clear as to his/her biological sex and social gender, if parents treat them simply as something that comes up. “Oh, Frank, I see you want to dress up. Here, you can be an Italian assassin, like in Tom’s game, instead of a princess. Here’s your dagger!”

However, if the parents have been watching daytime tv and say, “Ooooooh, look! He’s TRANSGENDERED, just like that boy on Oprah!!!” they can program their son into a nutcase and cause him horrific problems for the rest of his life. Something that contributes to this is that our society has so narrowly defined the masculine gender, so that personalities or interests outside an extremely constricted range are treated as “feminine” in a boy. When I was a child in the 60s and 70s, there was a much wider range of acceptable appearance, behavior, and interests for the feminine gender, but nowadays, about all that’s socially acceptable for girls, even in infancy, is “sex object.” It’s not surprising that girls would want to break out of that ... and then run into adults saying, “Look she thinks she’s a boy ... she’s TRANSGENDERED, like that kid on ‘Regis and Kelly’!”


38 posted on 12/05/2012 6:27:02 AM PST by Tax-chick (Get another cat.)
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To: Tax-chick

exactly!


39 posted on 12/05/2012 2:14:15 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Tax-chick
For a while when he was 4 or 5, he would talk about things that happened “when I was a girl,” by which he meant before his hair was cut.

That's just it. A normal, rational adult/parent understands the limitations of a child's worldview and translates accordingly. The nutcases choose to take comments like that literally because they are unwilling to apply the slightest amount of sense/logic.

It's one of the most heinous and destructive examples of people who elect to be "children by choice" in order to avoid the basic responsibilities and accountability required in the adult world of reality.

No wonder people will beg for Obamacare even though the reality is that Obamacare is a death march. The simpletons cling to their childish healthcare-for-all fantasy because intellect and wisdom is something they willingly exchanged for the promise of free carousel rides, popsicles and lollipops.

They embrace and celebrate their reality-challenged offspring because after all, the poor kids were purposely molded into the image of the parents.

For all the work Cher has had done on herself to look "beautiful", the rot of her character is made manifest in the abomination known as "Chaz". Poor thing.

41 posted on 12/05/2012 5:59:03 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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