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[–]PumpkinSpiceVagina 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This whole article makes me want to bang my head against the wall but holy fuck, this part:

Twenty minutes later, we settled down on the same couch, my husband on one side of Isabel, me on the other.

"Your son said something interesting," the psychologist said.

If a therapist spent twenty entire minutes with my daughter and then called her my son, I would be on the phone with every professional board that could possibly have to do with this person and leaving reviews on every website and contacting the fucking media because there is no possible universe in which that is remotely okay.

[–]PumpkinSpiceVagina 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Also, this kid is fucking six. Did this mother never stop and wonder where this child's notion of gender came from in the first place? I mean there are clues all over the article. "Pink is a girl's color", well who told her that? And even if it was then what makes a girl's color bad? Maybe her mom fighting her wanting to shop in the boy's section might have had something to do with it? Clothes for prepubescent boys and girls aren't made to fit their bodies differently and I have no idea where in the hell this lady got that notion. The difference is only the style, and that girls' clothes tend to be smaller in the same sizes for whatever stupid reason. Both my girls have happily worn their brothers' hand-me-downs and I've also bought them plenty of clothes from the boys' section and nobody magically grew a boy brain. The only reason there are separate sections in the first place is marketing, which I guess this lady totally fell for. God I feel sorry for that kid.

[–]worried19 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That was the reason my mom refused to let me have boys' underwear at first. She said it wasn't made for a little girl's body. She eventually relented when I was about 7, and I've happily worn male underwear ever since.