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Originally Posted by Jen123
I would not allow my son to wear a dress out side of the house. For a variety of reasons including but not limited to , personal , moral , and safety.
Boys should dress like boys. Girls just dress like lil girls and not prosti-tots in training. but that's another thread. LOL
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I just had to quote this entire thing because it is so offensive and I disagree with it so much :LOL Boys should dress like boys puh-leeze. And who's the grand puba that decided what is "boy dress". I would call this statement "archaic", but it doesn't even take past history into account, so it cannot be archaic. Men have always worn skirts as a norm, until about 50 years ago in THIS country--so that's the end-all, be-all?
There are no moral or safety reasons (what, are we afraid our sons are gonna get their penises caught on something? :LOL) that are valid. Better tell those priests & reverends to watch out, they wear really long dresses...
My son used to love wearing sarongs, and we'd go to the store in our redneck town, out to dinner. Because he had long hair to his butt, probably most people thought he was a girl. We had some small-minded people actually say "no" when we would correct them by saying "he" when they said "she".
My son loved skirts except for, and I quote, "Those mean people who think I'm a girl". I think it's so silly with so many other wonderful things in the world, that we should attempt to put morals on gender/clothing...why should it matter whether the child is a girl or boy--are you gonna date 'em? If they have a piece of cloth on their bodies that somehow signifies their gender, shouldn't we realize the personal, moral, and safety reasons to CHANGE THE WAY WE CATEGORIZE PEOPLE, rather than automatically assuming THEY are WRONG ?

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The oversimplification of boy=pants girl=skirts really gets my blood boiling, if only for the fact that it's people who FEAR the DIFFERENCES in people that are SO dangerous, as seen by example with that poor Matthew Shepard boy. If fear of lynching for a boy wearing a skirt is our "safety" reason, then we are just perpetuating THAT HATRED. IT NEEDS TO STOP.
Shame on us for not celebrating those differences as a beautiful part of humanity, instead hiding under some weird "moral" that requires a person to shame another for doing something *gasp* outside their box.
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