TQC gender-wank!
*stolen from a mousie on

thequestionclub if it's ok to let her son wear a skirt to school. Most of the answers are *gasp!* reasonable, but there are always a few wankers in the bunch.

redlightlove starts off the party by proclaiming boys only wear skirts if they're fairies. People of course call him on this, and he backpedals with the classic "I was doing it for the LULZ."

redlightlove then makes it to

stupid_free (which stays amazingly free of wank).

Next up, we have

renewedme, proclaiming that the kid needs to go to therapy to find the "root" of his problem. Anyone else having "But I'm a Cheerleader" flashbacks? Continuing on this theme, she states that dressing as the opposite sex could come from "underlying problems" and that she sees "nothing wrong with our society's attitudes toward gender at all." There is another round of "Bitch, plz" from those assembled. There's also a discussion on whether ten year-olds understand sexuality and gender identity, culminating in accusations of repression.

Finally,

supernovacaine gets in on the action, wondering why transsexuals can't just wear goddamn pants like all the other women in the world.

Personally, I'm just in favor of clothing that keeps the naughty bits covered. At least on most people. Jeri Ryan is allowed to wear as little clothing as she likes.

	iwanttobeasleep 2007-01-17 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	Because when they're younger they don't know well enough to know that skirts are a girl's thing, and when they're older, they know well enough that they're breaking societal norms and what will come of it, but at 10 they know it's abnormal, but don't get the idea that something bad could come of it? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stella_polaris 2007-01-17 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Something like that, yeah. But still, if it was my kid, I'm not sure I wouldn't let him do it. I'd just have talk with him to make sure he understood what he was doing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	linadarkstar 2007-01-18 12:43 am UTC (link)
	I dunnooo- I think gender divides as obvious as wearing a skirt are pretty well set and well acknowledged even at that age. At 10 I think I was pretty well acquainted with the threat of being laughed at, too. Then again, likely they wouldn't get the sexuality-related backlash that would come post-puberty (and possibly from parents of classmates now.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dragonfangirl 2007-01-18 06:36 am UTC (link)
	By 10, they know. Or should know. Heck, they know by age 6 or 7. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jat_sapphire 2007-01-19 05:11 am UTC (link)
	Or earlier, judging from the ages when a lot of little girls want to wear the frilliest dresses ever made. (Reply to this)(Parent)