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Oh, Boy (Woman dresses her 4-year-old son in pink tutus. - Slate)
Slate ^ | 10/21/14 | Emily Yoffe

Posted on 10/21/2014 5:04:18 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

Q. My Sister’s Parenting: My sister has this idea that she shouldn’t confine her son to traditional gender stereotypes. Recently she started dressing him in feminine clothing. He is 4 years old and gets teased at his day care and has expressed many times how much he hates his dresses and pink tutus. She keeps telling him the other children are wrong to tease him and he should be proud of dressing that way. What can I say to her without insulting her parenting skills?

A: Your sister’s behavior will not have your son embrace her ideals of gender fluidity, it will make her boy turn against her and forever scar their relationship. My daughter was a decidedly un-princessy little girl. If at 4 years old I had insisted she go to school in a tutu, she would have ripped it off and refused to leave the house. (Even in nursery school she picked her own outfits and one of my favorites was the Tyrannosaurus rex sweatshirt and pearls.) If your nephew insisted on wearing a pink tutu and was teased because of it, that would be an understandably difficult situation, but one that everyone could work on together to make her boy feel happy and secure....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: childabuse; crossdressing; culturewar; homofascism; homosexualagenda; liberalism; mentaldisorder
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1 posted on 10/21/2014 5:04:18 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Faith Presses On

“I’m a Boy, I’m a Boy, but my Ma won’t admit it....”


2 posted on 10/21/2014 5:06:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Faith Presses On

The sister wanted a baby girl, maybe find someone who had a baby girl but wanted a baby boy and do a trade?????

Either that or check the sister into the nut house...

Option 2 is what i would pick...


3 posted on 10/21/2014 5:08:35 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Faith Presses On

He will grow up to be like Franklin Rosevelt......?

4 posted on 10/21/2014 5:11:35 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Faith Presses On

child abuse


5 posted on 10/21/2014 5:14:11 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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Why would you not want to insult you latent lezbo sister’s lack of parenting skills?


6 posted on 10/21/2014 5:23:22 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Faith Presses On

“My sister has this idea that she shouldn’t confine her son to traditional gender stereotypes.”

So, as an “enlightened” alternative, she’s going to confine him to being a prop in her war against normal society.

Swell parenting there. I agree with the poster who brought up child abuse. Her actions are clearly making the kid absolutely miserable, and for no good reason than her personal crusade. Children are supposed to be your joy and your responsibility, not agents for your personal agenda!

If this idiot woman continues down this road, the child will almost surely end up having difficulties in relating to people and general self-esteem later in life.


7 posted on 10/21/2014 5:24:32 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Planted question.


8 posted on 10/21/2014 5:34:59 PM PDT by Ken H
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Another dimwitted so-called mother alert.


9 posted on 10/21/2014 5:36:59 PM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
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To: Faith Presses On
What can I say to her without insulting her parenting skills?

There obviously aren't any parenting skills and she deserves to be insulted...What's her motive, a closet transgender something or other???

10 posted on 10/21/2014 5:37:36 PM PDT by Iscool
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There’s the ebola virus and then there’s the equally deadly liberala virus. When not contained, the liberala virus destroys entire societies. It must be destroyed.


11 posted on 10/21/2014 5:46:12 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Faith Presses On

One can almost hear “I’m asking for my ‘sister’, not me, honest” in that question.


12 posted on 10/21/2014 5:48:59 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: GraceG
He will grow up to be like Franklin Rosevelt......?

No, he'll probably grow up into the type of man whose recreational pastimes include strangling prostitutes with their own undergarments and leaving their bodies in the dumpster behind the alley.

Thanks mom!

13 posted on 10/21/2014 5:50:07 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Faith Presses On
What can I say to her without insulting her parenting skills?

Parenting skills?

Really; I wouldn't worry about insulting her or her lack of parenting skills.

I don't know the legalities, but some sort of intervention would seem to be appropriate.

14 posted on 10/21/2014 5:52:36 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: GraceG

That explains a lot.


15 posted on 10/21/2014 5:52:56 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Faith Presses On
Great episode from Portlandia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9r2o5ZnSHo

Candace's son visits the feminist bookstore

16 posted on 10/21/2014 6:10:22 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Faith Presses On
This "mother" is practicing psychological child abuse, but you won't get any child protection agency to recognize it as such, given today's insane politically correct environment. Too bad for that little boy. More proof:

Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new ICD-10 addenda:

321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

18 posted on 10/21/2014 6:39:44 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Nevadan
Great episode from Portlandia:

LOL! I love that show!

19 posted on 10/21/2014 6:47:02 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Faith Presses On

Child abuse, pure and simple.


20 posted on 10/21/2014 7:00:12 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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