This is so true. Back in my day we recognized this and had Tomboys. Calling a girl a Tomboy was descriptive, not an insult. I have many "manly" characteristics and never questioned my gender. These people are trying to push people into little boxes based on narrow definitions of what it means to be male or female.
Collectivists gonna collect. That's why racism is a collectivist mindset. Conservatives tend to focus on individualism and it's why we have such a hard time debating or discussing topics related to collectivist thought, we simply don't speak the same "language" or share a common worldview with them.
Speaking as someone who was a Tomboy (and I suppose I still am), I can confirm this as reality. My mom and I were discussing it recently and I pointed out that, were I in school now, the admins would've gone to her and my dad insisting I wanted to be a boy. Nope. Sorry. I just liked to climb trees and shoot bb guns and tackle boys I liked (how else was I to show I liked them, huh?).
Of course, my parents would have ripped them to shreds had that happened. Now, parents are the ones pushing this crap. It's child abuse, plain and simple.
This is so true. Back in my day we recognized this and had Tomboys. Calling a girl a Tomboy was descriptive, not an insult. I have many "manly" characteristics and never questioned my gender. These people are trying to push people into little boxes based on narrow definitions of what it means to be male or female.
Collectivists gonna collect. That's why racism is a collectivist mindset. Conservatives tend to focus on individualism and it's why we have such a hard time debating or discussing topics related to collectivist thought, we simply don't speak the same "language" or share a common worldview with them.
Speaking as someone who was a Tomboy (and I suppose I still am), I can confirm this as reality. My mom and I were discussing it recently and I pointed out that, were I in school now, the admins would've gone to her and my dad insisting I wanted to be a boy. Nope. Sorry. I just liked to climb trees and shoot bb guns and tackle boys I liked (how else was I to show I liked them, huh?).
Of course, my parents would have ripped them to shreds had that happened. Now, parents are the ones pushing this crap. It's child abuse, plain and simple.