I remember the first time I played golf with my Dad as an adult and he not only used words I didn’t know he knew, he strung them together in a logical and coherent method.
i think a lot of people, even parents of boys, are incredibly flip about sexualization of and around girls not to mention the constant hammer of 'gender roles'. Kids at age 2 are already talking about things that "boys/girls don't do" (be firefighters or superheroes).
it's not just a matter of 'having a conversation" with them about the birds and the bees. to parents of girls, there is a constant layer of bullshit you have to be on guard for/contextualize (or attempt to), unless you don't want them to participate in popular culture, which is obviously foolish.
The part about the girls is so true. My 7yo daughter has always been so impressive to me because she's a good balance of girly girl stuff and also "boy" stuff. Likes sports a lot, but wants to wear unicorns and butterflys. Plays video games and likes to dig in the mud to find bugs. These are poor examples, but my point is that she's just a kid trying to have fun. But as she's gotten older, I've learned that I will never be able to compete with the time she has at school and with friends. The pressure to fit in overwhelms pretty much everything else (not that I think it is a conscious thought in her head). For example, if she's in a group of girls and someone is scared of a bug, she'll scream and act all scared when I know the other day she was searching for slugs and snakes in our backyard. She's also become "boy crazy" already... Which is scary for me. I thought I had years to worry about that shit.
But on the other hand, my 2yo son is a boy. Even with all of the influences he's had from his older sisters, he's all about trucks and superheros, and has been from day one. He's fine when his sisters dress him up like a princess, but if he's alone it is going to be dinosaur boots, a spiderman shirt, and some sort of toy weapon. There are absolutely differences between genders, which I'm not sure I believed before I had 3 kids of my own.
i think a lot of people, even parents of boys, are incredibly flip about sexualization of and around girls not to mention the constant hammer of 'gender roles'.
You've really got to stop using this invented word. Even if it is your own abbreviation for "flippant" it doesn't mean what you want it to mean.
I was totally about to call you out for a malapropism here and then I googled it and realized that I have been saying this incorrectly my entire life and I didn't need another reminder of the fact that I'm hella dumb this morning.
This kind of mistake (probably more of a linguistic "eggcorn" rather than a malapropism because there is a weird logic to the substitution) is a pretty neat way to see who discovered words and phrases from hearing them versus reading them. I'm the opposite: I have had a ton of mispronounciations in my vocabulary because I first encountered words and phrases in writing.Deep seeded. I mean, probably nobody has noticed but damn. I've definitely written it incorrectly roughly a million times.
Yep. See my post above about dogberryso i guess you hate william shakespeare