Posted on 06/26/2011 8:00:05 AM PDT by markomalley
At the "Egalia" preschool, staff avoid using words like "him" or "her" and address the 33 kids as "friends" rather than girls and boys.
From the color and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail has been carefully planned to make sure the children don't fall into gender stereotypes.
"Society expects girls to be girlie, nice and pretty and boys to be manly, rough and outgoing," says Jenny Johnsson, a 31-year-old teacher. "Egalia gives them a fantastic opportunity to be whoever they want to be."
The taxpayer-funded preschool which opened last year in the liberal Sodermalm district of Stockholm for kids aged 1 to 6 is among the most radical examples of Sweden's efforts to engineer equality between the sexes from childhood onward.
Breaking down gender roles is a core mission in the national curriculum for preschools, underpinned by the theory that even in highly egalitarian-minded Sweden, society gives boys an unfair edge.
(Excerpt) Read more at columbustelegram.com ...
Is this of interest to any of you?
This is exactly how ``The It Girl`` got started here in 1920`s
Right out of 1984..
While the Socialist libs are busy confusing their kids, the ROP continues to breed like rabbits, count on it.
I threw up in my mouth a little.
Liberals live in a fantasy world.
The believe we can spend our way out of debt.
They believe Carbon Dioxide - which feeds all plant life! - is a poison.
Etc...
I wish these liberal fantasy world dwellers would take their gender belief systems to some place like Saudi Arabia. And take their big government, Keynesian economic theroies to Zimbabwe. Don't come back until you "fix" them.
The fact that this is tried every 10 years or so never deters the self appointed progressive intellectuals.
Imagine their surprise when they discover that boys and girls are different...like every other time this little social experiment is performed.
Idiots.
I wonder how many of the little boys use sticks and fingers and say “ BANG! BANG!” while playing, along with wrestling, and fighting.......
The word evil comes to mind
I wonder if these social engineers ever stop to wonder just why that is?
Survival of the species requires certain things. Certainly a male and female are required to mate and raise their off springs. At the best of times, a human child needs at least ten years or longer to prepare for adulthood. It is in societies best interest to have two parents raising the children, one to provide food and shelter and defense and the other to protect and nurture the children.
From the earliest civilizations until today, that is the way most societies are set up.
Now there are always exceptions, there are some males that would prefer to be female and some females that would prefer to be male and different societies have dealt with these problems in different ways.
But children need guidance growing up to know what is expected of them as adults. I have no idea how this experiment will turn out, but I doubt it will be beneficial to the children.
The Throatcutters have their gender roles all set, and the Barbie doll carrying Hans will be no match when his repression begins. Insanity of the looney libtards.
I’ll take a look in a bit.
I didn’t ping for some time but I’m back on now.
As if the Swedes were not already confused about their sexuality.
This may actually not be such a bad experiment.
If they truly keep a hands-off approach, and the kids are not influenced one way or the other, they will learn what every parent of boys & girls learn: that girls tend towards more social activities, while the boys tend towards more physical activities.
The only question is what will they do when the results become obvious?
My guess is that instead of reporting that “boys will be boys”, they will simply (unconsciously or not) push the boys to act like girls.
Their Viking ancesters must be puking in their graves.
Just a tip for our Islamic friends; when you take over Sweden (and if this story is indicative, they will), I recommend putting ALL ethnic Swedes in niqab. It’ll make life easier for all concernrd.
I’m pretty sure that the Muslims must laugh their a$$es off when they read stuff like this. On this occassion, I join them in a hearty guffaw.
“Friends” = “Comrades”
Does this mean there will be a male Swedish Bikini Team? (Gee, I hope not).
“...address the 33 kids as “friends”...”
Just cut to the chase and use “Comrade”.
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