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Sure, they make their own choices. But if all they (son and daughter) consume are submissive Disney princesses I get … frustrated? I want my daughter to have st
by teekert 2y ago
Sure, they make their own choices. But if all they (son and daughter) consume are submissive Disney princesses I get … frustrated? I want my daughter to have strong role models. Like Scully.
What are boys and girls anyway? It’s all made up cultural constructs. If anything I want them to be aware of that and know they can choose their own unique path to happiness, while recognizing that right for others as well of course.
- card_zero 2y ago"I am not a prize to be won!" - Princess Jasmine (1992).
- p_l 2y agoJust like how James Kirk from ST:TOS has been turned in general perception into this weird womanizer who slept with every green skinned alien babe [1], so is all the "supplementary" cultural material erasing important bits like that, especially when such bits are less "in your face" than (keeping to Disney) Merida from Brave. [1] the actual horndog of the main crew was McCoy, and Picard was rabble-rouser and notorious flirt in his youth, enough that his replacement heart happened due to bar fight
- NemoNobody 2y ago"It's all made up cultural constructs" - THIS EXACTLY! Thank you. It seems to me, that our cultural constructs of gender, long disembodied from the survival necessity that bore them, have been defined in ways that no longer match the way we live. Perhaps our physical selves and public identity don't need to change at all. Maybe, instead of all that, we should just redefine the words so that gender is as inclusive an idea as their are aspects of it. One seems much easier than the other.