I didn't attribute any posts directly to you. I have no idea who you are. But thanks for demonstrating the unstable paranoia I was talking about. |
Your perseveration on the mental health status of individuals you don't know at all, rather than on many people's repeated and obvious gender stereotyping is telling. |
More gender stereotyping BS from supposedly enlightened younger parents.
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Is this a White thing? |
getting dirty is not poor behavior |
are black boys treated different for being loud? if not ... it's not a white thing |
No ... being anti boy mom means you label moms as bad when tehir son is loud and dirty and you think they should make them sit quietly doing crafts. |
Wrestling for fun and being dirty is not "bad behavior"... it's anti boy moms that think it is. |
It is accurate to talk about paranoia and instability when that's what it is. The crazy thing is that I am undoubtedly far more experienced with raising a kid far outside of gender stereotypes than you are. I am many years into raising a boy that you and your ilk on this thread would claim you are defending or whatever nonsense you think you are doing with your ridiculous and over-the-top posts. For many years, since he was a toddler coveting nothing more than pink sequined dresses, I shopped only in the girls section for clothes. I don't want to describe him as a teen now, because I want to preserve his privacy, but I suspect you'd be falling all oover yourself to claim you are an "ally" to kids like him. (Hint: as someone who knows what a real ally is, you are not one.) At this point, what I care about are people who are kind, open-minded, and have a sense of humor. Moms who use #boymom are not and have literally never been a problem in my kid's life. Unkind, mentally inflexible parents who raise judgmental and nasty kids are problems, however. And they are like you and your friends in this thread, the kind of grown women who see no problem equating a fourth-grader to a rapist and who slam entire groups of other people based on a stupid Twitter hashtag. The times we've had serious problems (bullying involving the schools) have, literally every single time, been only girls. In contrast, the kids you and your cohort would call Brock Turners (which is an appalling way to talk about a child, since I obviously need to spell that out) have mostly stood up to defend him. You can take your judgment and rigidity and stuff it. I don't need your fake "ally" virtue-signaling behavior. What I need is for you to stop teaching your kids that it's okay to judge entire groups of people wholesale. I've walked this path for a longer than you, and let me tell you, I can spot people like you a mile away now. You aren't helping. You are just breaking your arms patting yourselves on the back while at the same time teaching your kids that stereotyping is just fine because you do it yourself. |
Very well said. |
DP here, just because you've never experienced #boymom prejudice doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There have been several posts insinuating that a non-sports loving boy is worthless. #boymom shirts promote that certain behaviors are what makes a boy a boy. My own experience with #boymoms is that no way would you be a part of that group since your son is not their kind of boy, but if you say they stood up for your son, I won't call you a liar. I'll just say it was a different experience than I've seen. |
You know, I have a lot of bigger problems in my life than this largely imaginary #boymom prejudice you are talking about. Guess what? Some people can be jerks in life. I have already said that I think that the mom who posted about how you must wish you had a sporty son is crazy. But you know who else are crazy? Those people who are lumping all moms who use some stupid Twitter hashtag together as awful people, or those people who are referring to little boys as sexual assaulters. Sorry you want to divide the world into black and white camps. My world is a lot more complicated than that. I have one friend who uses #boymom occasionally on IG. She also bought my DS adorable sequined shirts for him regularly when he was little. But I guess by your standards, I should consider her a horrible person. |
No, that’s not what I meant in the slightest. You’re vicious and acting like a victim. I don’t have any of those thoughts about boys, or kids, or girls, and you are mean. Some kids hate crafts and some hate sports and it’s fine by me. |
It' interesting how fast you go to character assassination. actually this whole thread is about assassinating the character of moms that embrace raising boys. Mean girls never grow up. |
DP, but would you stop already? I absolutely love raising my sons and my daughter. My not focusing on their sex as the primary driver of their behavior doesn't change that. My daughter loves to dig in the dirt as much as her brothers do, and being loud and dirty in the appropriate setting is fine with me. Pretending that your boys just CAN'T ever be quiet or clean EVER because they're boys? Not so much. |