Comments on: Beyond Pink and Blue http://brettberk.com/2008/03/06/beyond-pink-and-blue/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Moondance http://brettberk.com/2008/03/06/beyond-pink-and-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Moondance Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:22:57 +0000 http://brettberk.com/2008/03/06/beyond-pink-and-blue/#comment-35 "...we all start out thinking that way." When he was a preschooler, my now 6 y.o. son used to love all things pink and purple. Now he shuns them, because there "for girls." How fast we are acclimated to expected gender roles! “…we all start out thinking that way.”

When he was a preschooler, my now 6 y.o. son used to love all things pink and purple. Now he shuns them, because there “for girls.” How fast we are acclimated to expected gender roles!

]]> By: jenn http://brettberk.com/2008/03/06/beyond-pink-and-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-31 jenn Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:10:33 +0000 http://brettberk.com/2008/03/06/beyond-pink-and-blue/#comment-31 Gay Uncle, I love your blog and you're getting blog-rolled, buddy. What an excellent description of challenging those restrictive gender pigeonholes. It's not fair to anyone, really, gay, straight, or otherwise. I second TheGayRecluse's comment about needing a new wave of "Free to Be..." Seems like today's culture is getting farther and farther from that mentality, and it's already affecting our kids in the biggest and scariest ways. Gay Uncle, I love your blog and you’re getting blog-rolled, buddy. What an excellent description of challenging those restrictive gender pigeonholes. It’s not fair to anyone, really, gay, straight, or otherwise.

I second TheGayRecluse’s comment about needing a new wave of “Free to Be…” Seems like today’s culture is getting farther and farther from that mentality, and it’s already affecting our kids in the biggest and scariest ways.

]]> By: thegayrecluse http://brettberk.com/2008/03/06/beyond-pink-and-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-29 thegayrecluse Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:36:35 +0000 http://brettberk.com/2008/03/06/beyond-pink-and-blue/#comment-29 Bravo, Gay Uncle! Somehow it seems even less forgivable for gay folks to gender-stereotype -- like, shouldn't we know better? -- and yet it's remarkably pervasive in prevailing attitudes about anything from toys to sex. I think it raises challenging questions of conformity and self-acceptance that go even deeper than sexual orientation; sometimes I think we need a new wave of "Free To Be You and Me" style of consciousness raising (or maybe that's Chris Crocker, who basically does the same thing from where I sit...) Bravo, Gay Uncle! Somehow it seems even less forgivable for gay folks to gender-stereotype — like, shouldn’t we know better? — and yet it’s remarkably pervasive in prevailing attitudes about anything from toys to sex. I think it raises challenging questions of conformity and self-acceptance that go even deeper than sexual orientation; sometimes I think we need a new wave of “Free To Be You and Me” style of consciousness raising (or maybe that’s Chris Crocker, who basically does the same thing from where I sit…)

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