When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian.
Constance, I just had to press this for you…a smart and informative article on the “genderfication” of the clothes. Do yourself a favor and read this…and then make the obvious leap of insight…realizing “hey…so if clothes color has been dictated by fashion, tradition, and social norm, what other aspects of gender have been dictated as well?”
Here is my current conclusion:
The awareness of gender, and who someone is seems to me to be inherent with how someone is formed in utero. Everyone has a gender awareness and identity, even if it is uncertainty. That much is there pretty much from the start.
But the expression of gender…now that is almost purely a function of societal and cultural dictates and is not at all inherent or written in stone.
Wow, that really helps us…I mean, think about how much energy it takes to be all up in everyone’s business all the time, policing them and making sure that they are conforming to your interpretation of things. If it is all just a function of your epoc, why then there is no ultimate defense you need to make to fend of the certain doom of Ragnarok the instant that you choose to simply take logs out of your own eye and leave the sawdust in other people’s eyes alone.
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i always enjoy your fine posts and your perspective. Always when i read your posts I think what she writes makes good sense!
That encouragement is always edifying, and fuels my fires to keep going!
“One thing I can say now is that I’m not real keen on the gender binary—the idea that you have very masculine and very feminine things. The loss of neutral clothing is something that people should think more about. And there is a growing demand for neutral clothing for babies and toddlers now, too.”
Agreed.