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Originally Posted by Defender968
WOW.... really, these people think they're solving the kid's nonexistent problems by psychologically scaring the tar out of him/her....brilliant, so instead of rolling the dice and maybe the kid turns out normal, now they've guaranteed it will be screwed up because it is either a girl or boy and thus should be treated accordingly.
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IMHO, the greater damage that the kid may suffer will come from being raised by parents who teach that alloplasticity is a superior form of adaptation to autoplasticity. Rather than thinking of the world in terms of "she," "he," and ''we," this kid may grow up thinking of the world in terms of "me, me, me."
Then again, to paraphrase Melanie Klein, a kid is going to hate his/her parents for
something. At least this kid will be able to draw consolation that the issue will be more easily identified.
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Originally Posted by Hostile0311
This article fails to mention if "Pop's" parents are of the same sex, only mentions the mother. Thus the "feminist" outlook. It wouldn't surprise me. Either daddy is also a mommy or if it is a "he", fails to have any balls of his own. As for gender being a "social construction"...I always thought it was God's or Nature's construction. After all, we are "constructed" a bit differently. Some parents need their license to procreate revolked, then removed from the gene pool themselves. Needless to say, this kid is gonna have some major issues to contend with. I feel sorry for "it".  |
Men can't be feminists?
FWIW, the argument that is being bowdlerized by the article or by the parents (or both) is that gender
identity is a construct.
I share a sense of displeasure with a couples' approach to child rearing but I don't agree that eugenics is a viable option, not even as a joke.
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Originally Posted by echoes
[T]hese "Parents" do not deserve the title!
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It looks like they're going to put D. W. Winnicott's theory of "the good enough mother" to the test. Hopefully, the kid will pass this test.
If not, he/she could always star in a revival of
The Oresteia. S/he'll bring the house down playing both Orestes and Electra and then deliver a stirring acceptance speech at the Tony Awards during which CBS will need every moment of the five second delay used for live telecasts.