Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 3 2021 12:56pm)
It should be natural, but it isn't. We still have a lot of really dumb societal pressures that should be eliminated, and educating the next generation is part of that process.
The cases where a little boy is forced to wear a dress against his will are few and far between, but the cases of a little boy being made to play sports he doesn't want to because "that's what boys do" is still incredibly common. Both are bad IMO, but one is actually happening with frequency. And to be clear, I was forced to play sports I didn't want to, and I don't consider that to be bad. My mom was clear in elementary that she was going to make me play a sport until 7th grade, and then I could stop if I wanted, and it was the same with my sister. She kept playing sports and I didn't. That's fine, it wasn't put on me as something "boys do".
I'm fine with teaching the sexual differences between people, and I think we should teach kids about intersex individuals around the same time so it isn't such a foreign concept when adults learn about it. But gender is not sex, and expectations put on genders or sexes are ridiculous.
So you’re saying you believe most parents are forcing kids to play sports because “that’s what boys do”? You don’t think that most parents just don’t want their kids to be lazy fucks exactly how your mother raised you? You think your upbringing was more uncommon? Because I don’t. I think the way you were brought up is the way more common way parents are raising their kids. This whole boys do this or that shit is just a bunch of bullshit blown out of proportion by whiners who hate men imo.