GC: What's a good age-appropriate way to explain to an 8 year old boy why it would be creepy, wrong, and disrespectful towards women for him to get earrings for Christmas like his sisters received, without making him feel like he's creepy and wrong himself?

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[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In the US, where I come from, there have always been clip-on earrings, though. My mother (born early 1920s) and grandmothers (born late 1800s) all wore clip-on earrings their whole lives because they never got their ears pierced.

Although I personally have had pierced ears since age 16, for most of my life when I still wore jewelry I'd wear clip-on earrings sometimes. In the case of the large, heavy dangling earrings I wore a lot in the 80s and 90s, I preferred clip-ons coz otherwise the earrings would pull down the earlobes and pierced holes so they got stretched out and elongated.

Clip-on earrings are what my kids would wear when playing "dress up" when they were little.

[–]BiologyIsReal 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My mistake. I admit, I know barely anything about jewelry and I've never heard about that kind of earrings. Here, in Argentina, baby girls usually get their ears pierced at the hospital and, therefore, girls usually wear standard earrings.