Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I feel like traditional gender norms are far more enrenched and visible now.
I grew up in the 70s/80s. Maybe it was because I lived out in the country and lots of kids were rural and farm kids but no one cared about gender really at all. There was no such thing as gender non conforming. Boys and girls had long hair or short hair, everyone just wore whatever they wanted. I was a tomboy, had short hair, wore boys clothes, played in the dirt, etc and no one ever said anything - no one cared at all.
There would have likely been a little more pushback if a boy had worn a dress or a skirt or something but we all just did what we wanted. Traditional gender norms and expectations now mean that any girl who sin't feminine and into pink and glitter is non binary or gender non conforming and any boy who isn't masculine is seen as the same. This isn't progressive, this is going backwards.
I agree
In the 80s if you wanted a flashlight you had a choice of red or blue.
Coats, blue, black, brown
Water bottle, blue red or silver..
You get the drift
Now we’ve made everything to gender specific, and for kids that don’t fit that box it’s confusing. Marketers and retailers did this. There is nothing wrong with our kids.
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