By: Jack

Jack
Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:01:03 +0000

Brian why do you think this? Don’t you think it’s quite hypocritical to think that a baby boy dressed as a female political figure will ruin his chances of a normal life when girls who are tomboys do fine? Women wear men’s style attire and that’s fine, but a boy in a costume of a woman is just the worst idea ever, right? Why is that? Is it because guys like to associate anything negative as being ‘like a girl’ implying that being a girl is a bad thing? “You throw like a girl!” “You punch like a girl!” “You run like a girl!” And so on. I think this baby has the best chance of growing up to be a well adjusted child who views comments like yours for the sexist and archaic nonsense that they are whole you remain blind. Since the 50s women have come a long way while men have stalled and refused to progress in their set ways.

I’m a binary male and I am so lucky to be that way. However, that’s just luck. I find it abhorrent that it’s perfectly acceptable for women to wear men’s – or as they’re now more commonly called – unisex clothes but if a man dare do the same thing it’s just “wrong”. Women now have the option to wear boyfriend style clothing from some stores where it’s male style clothing cut to accommodate a female figure. If any men want centre styles they have to have something specially made and often endure ridicule for it. I just can’t get how fractured we are as a society that women can wear typically male clothing and still be regular women and treated as such. But as soon as men do the reverse, even if on a lesser scale than women, they’re different and pushed somewhat into having to be some trans something or other. It makes me sad for our society and specifically our gender that we can’t progress with the same openness and tolerance as women new enjoy. We’re already decades behind and it’s still struggling to start.

Oh yeah and if this child is screwed up for life because of progressive thinking parents, what about all those girls who dress up at Halloween as male characters. I don’t know where you live but I find it common to see girls dressed up as male characters. I saw a few pirates with make up used to make facial hair this year. I also saw a girl as Agent Coulson from Agents of Shield with a girl as Thor (not the new girl version, she had the long blood hair) and another girl as Iron Man. Are those girls screwed for life or made of awesome? For me I think the latter.

What is a “normal boy’s life” anyway?