It's precisely because the norms demarcating gender are so arbitrary that they must be policed so ruthlessly
Can we fundraiser to put this on billboards everywhere?
Aww, thanks comrade
the norms demarcating gender are so arbitrary
I worked at a GameStop briefly. One time had a lady customer ask me if we could exchange a game in a Wii box for a PS2 box since her son in the military might think the white box is too feminine
"Why, is he not proud of his Wii?"
This shit makes me so mad, even more so because I know that if I ever raised a son I couldnt stop other people from conditioning him this way
most of the bad ideas a young boy raised in a non toxic household is going to be exposed to are probably going to come from other boys their age. Shortly followed by the internet and then tv
providing a space where they can be vulnerable at home is from my childhood experience at least pretty helpful
Very true. I remember when i was a small boy i used to let my mom paint my nails because I thought it was cool. Then at the park one of the other boys sneered "only girls paint their nails" and I never wore nail polish again. But I doubt that behavior like this is innate in children
As a parent of little kids I am now one million percent convinced all of this gendered “girls naturally like pink and ponies and boys naturally like blue and dinos” is utter nonsense. I try as best I can to just let my kids explore whatever they want and they do not fall along any of these gendered lines.
But ultimately, it feels like a losing battle since everyone in my life (partner included) as well as all of society is fighting against me on this. As my kids have gotten older I can already see how they are ~~falling~~ being pushed into gendered interests. But I know it’s not some organic interest. I can draw the lines and point to how they get so much societal push on these things.
This is why a few more radical parents dont reveal their childrens AGAB to others. It comes with its own set of challenges, I'm sure, but I sure wish I had a little more space from cisnormativity growing up
BEWARE: An object’s ability to reflect certain wavelengths of light has the direct effect of permanently altering your child’s gender identity with repeat exposure.
That's why you're not supposed to look at the sun, it's too much concentrated gender
As a goth with translucent skin you learn to avoid the sun, I avoid the sun like the plague lol
But think of all the gender you're missing out on, you could be like a queer kryptonian
I mean I started trans femme, and recently realised trans femme non binary (transbian enby) :) I absorb the darkness instead it's what fuels me. That and I burn easily lol
"Oh yeah yeah you're right Sharon, play food is for women and the gay, OK here." drops loaded snubnosed revolver on the counter
Okay but can we talk about hot pink 9mm pistols? When you want to kill but you want to he femme about it
All of the extremely pink sporterised Mosins and shit... even random .22 boltguns... I just cannot...
That gun is too short for boys, it's small and girly and gay 
No they aren't and I see this shit all the time at work. Dudes always pull up with their big ass pickup trucks bragging about how big and intimidating their car is. Refuse to touch electric cars or anything smaller than an SUV because "only queers and women drive those"
No they aren't and I see this shit all the time at work. Dudes always pull up with their big ass pickup trucks bragging about how big and intimidating their car is. Refuse to touch electric cars or anything smaller than an SUV because "only queers and women drive those"
ZYBERTRUKKK(tm) is being marketed specifically to those insecure dudebro nerds... and they're buying it. 
I used to work for a sports merchandise store and I regularly had women ask me if it was okay for their husbands to wear teal jerseys.
Like
Your husband will not explode if he puts on a Jaguars or Mariners jersey.
I love that my queer ass is the authority on cis-het masculinity. Like, yeah dude, teal is a manly color now. In fact, no one is talking about it, but so is fuchsia. Have you considered buying him a breast cancer awareness jersey?
fuchsia
Fuchsia = Koga's gym = Poison types = Feminine fighting style = Gay
Sorry 
call me gay all you want, it won't cleanse Toxic 
[Attack misses]
[Takes 7/16 of HP in toxic damage]
[Faints]
The San Jose Sharks are gay as hell, apparently.
Hockey men make me feel gay as hell, so there might be something there
BUt also!
San Jose has no fucking buisness having a hockey team. There's no ice. A hockey team on the west coast is just a flex that your city has at least 1 billionaire from the Midwest living in it.
Reminds me of how weird my mom was when I said I wanted a strawberry cake for my birthday because it was pink. I just liked strawberry, I didn't care what color it was.
could she just like... make it like blue razzberry flavor but with strawberry?
I dunno, just one of those early things that didn't make sense to me as a kid. But then I did turn out to be kinda gay and genderqueer but I don't think pink frosting had anything to do with it. Or maybe it did 🤔
They're putting chemicals in the pink frosting to turn the boys gay
truly wild the extent to which people are policed on innocuous things like this. I remember when kids at school decided that liking bears was girly and boys could only like reptiles
I had some relatives question a woodland theme to toys and bedding for a baby boy. Lots of green and brown, plus some snails, rabbits, deer and shit.
CW hunting
In the end they rationalized it by saying they guess he can be a hunter. Now I'm wondering how many of the hunters I know just want to go camping but feel like it's too feminine if they aren't trying to kill anything
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