tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973413665290399197.post2694857026210696722..comments2011-12-21T07:32:01.968-08:00Comments on Daily Dose of Madness: Social Construction (Part 1)RivernIrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12846182999365298355noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973413665290399197.post-42775780517392766292011-05-06T19:05:34.210-07:002011-05-06T19:05:34.210-07:00Okay, damn it! I have posted a reply to this FOUR...Okay, damn it! I have posted a reply to this FOUR TIMES, and EACH TIME something has gone wrong. So consider that I wrote something pithy and thought-provoking which totally changed your point of view and made my point with mind-blowing clarity. Because that was there. But I've given up trying to share it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973413665290399197.post-9908199070818664662011-05-04T15:19:17.007-07:002011-05-04T15:19:17.007-07:00My point is that I do not feel like we should allo...My point is that I do not feel like we should allow ourselves to feel pressured from society to raise children in a certain way. In essence, we put way to much thought and concern into what everyone else thinking about us. Whether it's adhering to social norms explicitly or directly violating all of them in parental strategies, we're not letting children be who they want to be. If a son wants to learn ballet, so be it. If a daughter wants to play sports, then by all means. I have a hard time believing that those two students are isolated to a "limbo" for their entire lives. Furthermore, if they've not been held down to gender-specific norms, I'd think that would free them to communicate with more people, not less. This is a pretty diverse country and certainly a diverse world...there's a place for everyone. It would be somewhat freeing with perspective to realize that you don't have to look, feel, behave, or BE a certain person and sacrifice what you might want for yourself in order to accommodate the norms set from the outside.RivernIrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12846182999365298355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4973413665290399197.post-91834173626090537712011-05-03T19:48:46.418-07:002011-05-03T19:48:46.418-07:00Have you ever met someone who was gender-confused?...Have you ever met someone who was gender-confused? I don't mean homosexual, or a cross-dresser, but who truly and deeply did not what it meant to be their gender? <br /><br />I had two students whose parents did way too good a job raising their daughters without gender-bias. It was both weird and heartbreaking. I always wondered what happened to them.<br /><br />Did they become male? Or remain in their isolated limbo, not male but not understanding what it was to be female, truly connecting to no one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com