Do you think that gender roles are natural or symbols of oppression?

Your coworker is an idiot. I couldn't imagine working with someone that damned strange.

Ask them why they play traditional gender roles. What a couple of assholes and the husband is obviously a beta.

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It's funny that these people tend to label themselves as 'pro-science' when the rejection of difference in the sexes is about as unscientific as it gets.

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I think they are more outraged over the fact that it is expected that boys like certain things, while girls like certain things. Race cars v. barbies, for example.

The woman wears the panties in that household for sure.

Typically the boy will model after his father and the girl after her mother as a young child if it's a 2 parent household. It's natural instinct. There are a lot of things I liked as a kid and my parents never "encouraged" it.

I remember always wanting the z71 toy truck with the bass boat to play with, and toy farm tractors. I asked for them on my own will because my dad was a farmer and I wanted to be like him and for some reason I just loved boats even though at the time my dad didn't own one.

Gender confusion sounds like a wonderful prelude to later life

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My coworker has 1 year old twin boys, and she and her husband have decided to raise them "genderless", as they believe that gender preferences (such as boys playing with GI figures and dinosaurs and girls playing with dolls and barbies)are invented and oppressive. What are your thoughts on this issue? Do you think children should be raised "genderless", as in they should not wear clothes or play with toys that go with their gender, but rather should "choose" what route to go?

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Not pushing them towards certain toys is hardly being raised "genderless." It's also not very effective, unless they're also planning on isolating them from television, video games, movies, raising them in a home-school / commune where they only interact with other "genderless" kids, etc. Otherwise, they'll pick up on those societal gender role cues sooner or later.

I think it's nice from the simple standpoint of kids being allowed, whenever possible, to self-direct their own play and choose their own interests, but that's more of a general free-range parenting thing than a specific gender issue.

IMO, if you think gender roles are bullshite, it's foolish to pretend they don't exist. Better to raise your kid to recognize them and call out the bullshite so they can develop armor against people influencing them with "dinosaurs aren't for girls."

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Mission Viejo, CA

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One of the most republican cities in the country

Of the 56,286 registered voters in the city, 31,090 (55.2%) are Republicans, 14,319 (25.4%) are Democrats,

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HailHailtoMichigan!

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give me the percentage of genderless people in Cali vs Louisiana

I had a neighbor like this. I got their point to an extent.

They had a little girl who, despite being pretty girly, did really like toys and books you'd get for boys. She liked Tonka trucks and dinosaurs and all that stuff (as well as dolls and coloring books). They didn't want to tell her that she couldn't have something that was "for boys" because they believed that societal pressures like that are why, for example, we don't have many women studying physics.

I wouldn't say they raised her "genderless" per se, but rather didn't want to say she couldn't have/do something because it was "for boys."