tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post6435940429304454289..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Bring on the wussification!Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-19081516297757266172014-01-05T23:17:58.970-06:002014-01-05T23:17:58.970-06:00True, Wiley. Young girls often are much stronger t...True, Wiley. Young girls often are much stronger than young boys, yet society still thinks that they should be acting all tough and macho like grown men. Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-50956510638065688382014-01-01T17:34:43.387-06:002014-01-01T17:34:43.387-06:00Recent events have shown where this uber-masculine...Recent events have shown where this uber-masculine approach inevitably leads. Nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03686282358562565742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-52059834334191591822014-01-01T16:27:29.928-06:002014-01-01T16:27:29.928-06:00No better example than Putin as a man who is all c...No better example than Putin as a man who is all caught up in having something to prove about his masculinity.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-60211312910827622952014-01-01T16:24:21.101-06:002014-01-01T16:24:21.101-06:00Not so long ago, Putin in his state-of-the nation ...Not so long ago, Putin in his state-of-the nation address also called the West, "genderless" and "infertile" in lame effort to portray himself as a defender of conservative values and all that is truly manly in Russia. In fact, it was merely a way to excuse himself from allowing a culture of intolerance since the enacting of anti-gay laws there. ,Intolerance masquerading as upholding conservative values- in the US, or the Middle East or in Russia- tends to look the same wherever you go.Nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03686282358562565742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-67309560659402128252014-01-01T15:46:10.883-06:002014-01-01T15:46:10.883-06:00And can we stop making me be the one who has to go...And can we stop making me be the one who has to go investigate every time something goes bump in the night? Are my testicles supposed to offer better protection from the potential gunman than my wife's ovaries do?<br /><br />I wish that we would stop with gender roles altogether. While we're at it, stop worrying about how a woman is supposed to act, how a man is supposed to act, what things are supposed to be interesting to a woman, what things are supposed to be interesting to a man...<br /><br />Let's all just worry about being a person, the best one that we can be, and stop worrying about doing it within the ludicrous confines of what we're told our gender is allowed to do.<br /><br />My wife and I have worked very hard to avoid exposing our kids to gender based, race based, and religious based limitations and impositions. Society wants nothing to do with letting us succeed in that effort. Once they're a little older we'll have a direct conversation about it instead. It's a shame they won't get a chance to think about it on their own based on our example and their reasoning abilities.<br /><br />(We've always been very hands on about the racism. We teach that the world is much better BECAUSE of diversity, but the gender stuff and the religious stuff is something we wanted them to develop better reasoning skills before we got into it.)lockewasrightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-45760379752740603672014-01-01T15:05:18.972-06:002014-01-01T15:05:18.972-06:00I read once that baby boys and young boys are, gen...I read once that baby boys and young boys are, generally speaking, more sensitive than girls. Until around the second grade, if I'm not mistaken, girls are bigger, stronger, more coordinated, and more socialized than boys, generally speaking. It's long past time to stop treating boys like little men and to stop treating men like boys. wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.com