Adults Taunt Three-Year-Old Boy For Dressing Like A Girl At A Child’s Birthday Party

Blue used to be for girls (something to do with the Virgin Mary) and pink for boys (the healthy blush of rambunctious boys), and I’ve seen pix of boys & girls in the Victorian ages in which there was very little difference between the genders (heck, some of the grown men were fops back then, too). For some reason the gender colors of blue and pink changed around the 50s, don’t know why.

Also about that same time cheerleaders became a female-dominant sport (that had to do with so many women taking over male jobs and positions while so many were fighting in WW2 and cheerleading was one they never gave back).

I’ve always been mystified by the 80s metal culture, especially the glam metal bands that must’ve used more cosmetics (even pink lipstick) than a televangelist’s wife and yet it sounds as if the fans were more homophobic than regular society (which was bad enough). It was a trip when I found a tape for a band called Poison in a thrift store in which Bret Michaels was the lead singer and not only did I fail to recognize him, I thought the entire band were drag queens! (OTOH, I heard many rednecks who forcibly cut the hair of men with hair too long were big fans of country music stars that wore their hair even longer. Guess people just aren’t supposed to make sense.

Mar 12, 2014 at 9:32 pm · @Reply ·

@Paulie: You’re not alone, but in many areas this is a minority position. A great many people can’t tell the difference between what they feel and what should be law, so if they’re uncomfortable with something then it should be illegal as that’s them controlling their environment with like minded people (makes no sense to me but that’s what I glean from what they say), and they also see failure to prohibit something as therefore “promoting” it.

This gets twisted enough that when Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional in CA one woman had a protest sign calling it “tyranny” (when we the last time you heard of tyranny treating people as equals rather than making some people second class citizens?). I’d bet money that the same woman who sported that sign would be quick to say we live in a republic and not a democracy where a majority could vote away the rights or money of a minority when it came to voting on the right to bear arms or imposing taxes as people tend to be very hypocritical in their thinking.

But again, you’re not the only one. And even as a kid I saw the ludicrousness of it. For example, a white family in rural East Texas adopted a baby of Far East Asian ancestry and treated her as an outcast (and thus a friend of mine since I was one of the outcasts in that town, too) but the town didn’t blame their own bigotry–they blamed the parents for adopting such a child when they knew how bigoted the town was (not that they’d admit they were bigoted, they saw themselves as realists). While I can sorta see their point, consider this: they KNEW how they treated that child was wrong and yet they did it anyway but blamed it on someone else saying their bigotry should’ve never been challenged in the first place. Even as a child I saw how stupid the town was (and so did my granny).

Thankfully, people who rock the boat have brought about all sorts of positive changes, and had people “not offended others for attention” then women would not be able to vote–heck NO ONE would be allowed to vote–and racial minorities would (or even natives under colonial rule) would still be consigned to a poor existence compared to the dominant race, gender, religion (etc) in power. So kudos to this mom for allowing her son to dress that way (not that I’d want her to make him dress that way, but allowing it, yes).

Mar 14, 2014 at 10:25 pm · @Reply ·