This is very interesting. I agree with not telling boys to 'be a man' or girls to be ladylike. Not helpful.https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/788480297209851904 …
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Then you're saying that there should be no ideal to live up to? I think it'll happen regardless.
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I'm saying I don't like negative traits described as 'masculinity' & 'femininity.' Nothing at all abt role models.
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Brandishing gender standard *either* as an ideal to be achieved or as a toxic pathology = very bad idea.
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Of course, but having an ideal and something to live up to is not that, s'long as "man" isn't all you are.
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But the injunction that someone should "be a man" (or, less often heard, "woman") is confused and unhelpful.
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Especially, such pressure shouldn't be placed on children. And neither shd *gender-non-typical* behaviour be urged.
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Pressuring children generally is weird. Giving them definitions, with which they can nuance as they age isn't.
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Agreed. I think they should be equipped to understand the responses they might evince out in the world. No more.
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The thing is... children seek to understand gender at a certain age, understand what manhood, etc. means.
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Not suggesting they shouldn't.
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