Interesting choice for Cocomelon

People's brains are broke. Putting on a dress and pretending doesn't mean shit when you are a kid. You cant make your kid be something they arent, so relax and let them be kids dude. If you dont like the show, dont watch it.

This is the same account that was convinced the new Minnesota flag was a tribute to Somalia lol.

 

My only real takeaway from watching that clip is that Seth Rogan could probably sue the Cocomelon producers for using his likeness without permission...

 

It's interesting, my wife utilizes a database for patient registration in the medical field and she noticed a change in the gender field. Here were the choices in the drop down menu:
Man
Woman
Nonbinary
Transgender Woman (MTF)
Transgender Man (FTM)
Agender
Bigender
Cisgender
Demigender
Genderfluid
Genderqueer
Pangender
Transgender
Two-Spirit

 

I do wonder if there are parents that are like, "dont put on that cat costume Billy, you need to wear that steel worker outfit we bought you, or no dessert for you."

 

My son (who's 4) wanted to be batgirl for Halloween because he thinks her motorcycle is cool. He ended up changing his mind to Batman, but my honest to God only concerns with him dressing up as Batgirl at that age was some mouth-breathing MAGAt confronting us while trick-or-treating and scaring him by making a big deal about something harmless.

He also (along with every other boy at his day care) pretended to be Elsa for two weeks after watching Frozen.

Want to give your children complexes or mess them up in the head? Make big things to them out of the innocuous and make them think play and pretend can be wrong.

 

People need to look at pictures of kids from like 1920. I have some old family photos and its hard to tell the gender with some of the very young kids in them based on the clothing. Different times. My ongoing theory is that people did way more "gay" seeming stuff in times when there wasnt a widespread gender panic.

 

Thank god your kids are no longer into wokomelon. They for sure would be transgender now if they had been exposed to this.

My little one still likes it but she is a girl so no biggie.

 

Oh I think there is gender panic, because.....there is gender panic or maybe a better word is confusion. My list above displays that(which is on topic if the topic is gender identity). You'd probably need a nap after looking up all of definitions and I certainly find it very confusing as a grown adult. Granted, I leave people alone and to their own decisions, but I wonder what kids thinks when presented with all of those choices? Confusion?

I personally don't get the two ends of the spectrum; freaking out about everything different (in re: to gender identity) and the "nothing to see here" crowd either. I'm happy to remain in the middle group of where I think (in my head), "yeah, that's weird but I'll assume you're a nice person and you do you".

 

They are missing Ammosexual.

 

A good ~98%+ of people conform to pretty standard ideas of gender. No one is picking their identity off a list, I have no idea what "bigender" is but I assume the person checking that on a hospital admissions form does, and it has no bearing on me or society at large. Like I said, you can't make someone be what they are not. A parent cant turn their kid trans or gay by letting their hair grow out or dressing them gender neutral, and parent cant make their kid with gender dysphoria into the identity they want them to have by forcing them into certain things. I think what some people are most worried about, the 'gender panic' people, is that people will be more accepting of those that don't conform to standard ideas of gender, because they have this idea of moral decline, or deviance that is the root of all the problems they see in America.

 

I don't know if people do it that way, but I've never been one to introduce nothing to our kids and hope they discover something. It's always been throwing a number of things that mom or dad has an interest in and see if any of it takes; if for some reason it ever got beyond that we'd look for new things to throw at them. Ultimately, it is them picking it, but most of the time they're going to pick something that is inclusive of what their parents enjoy (at least that's been our experience). My biggest concern about shows like this is that it's too easy to just sit a kid in front of something digital that's not real; too easy to make that replace parent-child engagement. Not saying it's problematic or not, just something I was never crazy about.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

This is purely anecdotal, but we have some friends who kids are HS age. They said that their kids have said its definitely "cool" to to have or identify as something other than what biology has given you. I don't think it's to a bullying type of level but it's certainly an in/out type of deal. I don't know why anyone would care, but maybe it's because there is a clamoring to be in the oppressed group of the binary oppressor/oppressed paradigm that currently seems so popular. A badge of honor so to speak. This too shall pass IMO....

 

I get what you were saying. I'm certain there are times my parents were getting rid of their old clothes & accessories and my siblings and I tried them on and had a laugh. They werent really introducing anything other than their poor fashion choices from the 70s. Of course my parents werent being blasted with right-wing agitprop 24/7 then either to where they might get an idea that something was wrong.

 

Kids are too young to understand the concept of gender identity.

Why is that boy putting on a dress?

Scene.

 

The Greeks thought the Persians were effeminate as hell because the Persian men wore pants.

 

This discussion reminds me me of Ovid's profound observation that 'all things change, nothing is extinguished.'

 

too lazy to insert a link to a pic of pearls

 

Interesting. We are having fights about whether pants are too masculine for girls to be allowed to wear them.

Supreme Court won't back NC school's skirts-only dress code

The Supreme Court on Monday opted against taking up the Leland school’s appeal of a federal court ruling that scrapped the publicly funded institution’s skirt mandate.

Parents and students had sued the school over the requirement, which an en banc appeals panel deemed a violation of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.

“Here, the skirts requirement blatantly perpetuates harmful gender stereotypes as part of the public education provided to North Carolina’s young residents,” Judge Barbara Keenan of the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in her ruling last year.

 

BS I grew up watching The Andy Devine show and I grew up just like Froggie.