This is one of the articles that popped in my MicroSoft Start Page browser this morning:
MSN , "Should you Raise a Gender Neutral Son?"
This is the kind of crap that millions of people are falling for. The obvious answer is Hell No! Otherwise you are setting up your son to be confused. Affirm from birth that he is a boy because he has boy parts. There is no need to confuse him about his gender as if gender is role that people play. There is no need to set him on a path of confusion that can lead to the mutilation of his body (cutting of his dick), being a life long patient of hormone treatments, and sterilization. Can anyone say Jazz Jennings?
Amen. God made two kinds of human: male and female. And anyone who has spent a lot of time around normal little boys and girls intuitively pick up that they are different in various ways. My son and all his MANY boy cousins made motor noises when they played with toy cars. My daughter and all her several girl cousins played with toy cars too, but they didn't make motor noises. Why? Who knows. But it is just that the two genders are different.
Men and women generally process information differently even when they arrive at the same conclusion. In that way they often complete each other in a way that is both mysterious and beautiful to behold.
In the happiest, most stable relationships, the man is the hunter/gatherer/provider/protector and head of the household even though he may pitch in and help with the grocery shopping and housework and cooking and shares parenting responsibilities with his wife. The woman may have a highly successful and rewarding successful career, but she is the heart and soul of the home and the glue that holds it all together. Normal people just instinctively take on those roles because it feels right and it works.
Males should be raised as men and encouraged to understand their responsibilities to their family, the church, the community, the country and should be encouraged to be men. Should be treated as men. Likewise women should be encouraged to see themselves as wonderful creations of God, strong, capable, wise and they should like being a girl.
And boys should be taught in the social graces and be taught to be gentlemen who respect women and be worthy of their respect. And woman should be taught in the social graces and be taught to conduct themselves as ladies, respect the guys and be worthy of their respect. And because men are naturally stronger and more capable of injuring somebody in anger, he especially should be impressed that good guys do not hit girls.
And in a normal, healthy, reasoned society we can use gender pronouns--he/him/his and she/her/hers as easily as we once were able to do.
