Chris Stoner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why are there only two options, either you "force them into a gender" or you > treat them as some "science experiment"? Why cant there be a third more > common sense approach? Why cant the parents let their kid be what shehe > wants to be? Why cant they, as conscientious parents, raise a boy or girl > who understands what it means to be a boy or a girl but also understands > that gender roles are not absolute?
Or, better, that "gender" is a purely cultural set of *expected* norms and those norms change and evolve! There's all kinds of things here. Think of the "norm" that men don't cry or eat quiche. The metrosexual concept. etc etc. So what does it mean to be a "boy"? At the end of the day ... not a damn thing. And whatever it means to you today will be different tomorrow. So why is everybody all upset about this? It's like being angry that some Asians eat with chop sticks. NNNNNOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338350 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
