What I took from the childhood section is that its really the time for parents and society to model children into what they should and should not be. Everyone knows that children are more malleable and that they can form their ideal "socially acceptable" child. I think this is BULLSHIT!!!!!! Children should be taught who is male and female, but be allowed to develop into who they were born to be.
I know as a child I used to play with toy cars and trucks, but I also played with the Spice Girls barbies.I also used to sing and dance to Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and of course The Spice Girls. What's wrong with that? They were my 90s! Some reason it was allowed. I think it was because my mom wanted me to learn, and allow me to be me.
Now a days it is still frowned upon and criticized. The only true change is that more feminine men are called faggots, fags, girlie boy, so basically cruel hateful words. Women on the other hand who are more masculine are called dikes. Society sees being a homosexual is an unnormal thing. We were BORN THIS WAY!Society needs to wake up and see what the world is becoming.
ITs funny that I'm actually talking about this because before I read this essay, before I wrote this blog. I read an article online about Jamie Hubley who committed suicide (10/15/2011) due to bulling at school. In the article it said 20% of HS think about committing suicide and LGBT students are 8.4 times more likely to carry through with it.
Heya, Keeton.
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I'm glad that had such a strong reaction to Devor's ideas, although I think he perceives the origins of gender to be a bit more ambiguous then you might think... :-)
Ahhhh-- I remember Spice Girl's Barbie Dolls....
I'm glad that you are so vested in the causes and prevention of bullying. Perhaps you can explore this idea further in our collaborative classroom memoir!