
Boys will be boys – whether you like it or not
Article here. Excerpt:
'As we merrily skip along the road to economic servitude, war in the Middle East and demographic suicide at home, at least some people – really, really stupid people, may I add – have won a battle in the ongoing Culture Wars that brings social engineering to a whole new level of sinister stupidity.
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You may want your children to grow up blissfully free of societal expectations defined along a narrow, gender construct that perpetuates a traditionally reductive and patriarchal pedagogical narrative (hey look! I just learned to speak like a feminist! It's not that hard – just stop using your brain!). But here's the thing – there's a good chance your kids don't think like you do, and there's an even better chance that you're going to end up feeling very foolish indeed when you see nature take its course.
Because as long as we remember that the phrase 'by and large' is crucial, we will, by and large, see boys gravitating towards loud, noisy shiny things that they can break and, by and large, girls will tend to gravitate towards more passive, traditional expressions of femininity.'
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