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It sounds like your son exercised his free will. Whether you influence him or society does, he ultimately has to be responsible for his choices. Some will be ea
by exstudent2 10y ago
It sounds like your son exercised his free will. Whether you influence him or society does, he ultimately has to be responsible for his choices. Some will be easy, some hard but it's a cliche to disagree with your child's choices.
Maybe he's comfortable with his gender and gender roles? Maybe that will help him get a wife someday and you grandchildren. It's not for everyone but maybe it will be for him.
- interpol_p 10y agoI don’t “disagree with his choices.” I find it frustrating that our culture made him feel ashamed of liking his favourite colour. I find it frustrating that he is made to believe something as arbitrary as a wavelength of light is “for girls.” A child should never feel ashamed of liking something as simple as a colour. That is ridiculous. > Maybe he's comfortable with his gender and gender roles? Maybe that will help him get a wife someday and you grandchildren. It's not for everyone but maybe it will be for him. Are you serious? He can get a wife or whatever he wants when he knows what that is. It is amusing to think that traditional "gender roles" would help in any way with that.
- logfromblammo 10y agoIt isn't an arbitrary wavelength. It's an entire absorption spectrum. If the wavelength were the determining factor, green would be gender-neutral, and purple would be androgynous. Not that this particular societal prejudice could ever be explained rationally, of course.~