If you have a legitimate argument as to why a boy should not be allotted pink, then by all means share. But as far as I can tell, pink and rainbows will not make a person gay. Honestly, if a boy turns gay it will not be because he liked rainbows and pink.
I was going to write this whole blog on gender roles and socialization, and how neither of these have much effect on homosexuality. Unfortunately, my daughter turned off the computer and this entire pink theory has gotten me so upset that I doubt I could write coherent sentences into a logical argument and good point.
Please glean from these two instances what I did not have the patience to say and share you views.
Instance one:
It was my son’s first visit at the dental office and like all children he was a wee bit nervous for the first experience of anything. This particular office was geared towards young children to help them feel at ease. One thing that helps is the give a child a choice, so the technician allowed him to choose his color of the toothbrush. She offered a red, yellow, blue, pink and green. My son, with some enthusiasm, said pink because it is his favorite color. I do not mind because, frankly, I rather have him chasing pink and skirts then blue and pants, you know what I mean ;) …basically no big deal he is a young person and can not know about these things. She just glanced at me in the clearly uncomfortable stare of ‘I don’t want to make him gay’ and told him that they were out as she offered the blue one. He ended up disappointed with the yellow one, but at least he understood that when your out of a color your out. This case was no big deal except for then I questioned the intelligence of the assistant.
Instance two:
My son loves to go to AWANAs and this Wednesday he was no less excited to go, apparently moms and homes are boring to a four year old. Anyway, they had a competition on learning verses in his class in which he is the only boy. I am not sure what the teacher thought making the first prize what she did, maybe she figured their was no way my son would win since he is not much of a talker. To no surprise of my own, he learned the verse and said it right when asked faster and more often than the other children. HE WON!!! He won first prize, Crayons!!! He loves to draw and color so when he was given the choice for some water toy or colors, he wanted the colors more than anything. He should have gotten them, I mean he earned up right. BUT the teacher was uncomfortable giving a boy the prize since it was girly pink papered crayons from Barbie or something. She tried and tried to offer him something else to no avail.
He came home with nothing. When my husband told me this it broke my heart. He deserved those damn crayons but there was none left when the teacher was told it was okay.
I actually cried, that crazy woman stole a piece of my son’s innocence. This was supposed to be encouraging. My son is the kind of boy that it only takes once for him to learn.
How will I undo this? How could this ignorance be forced pointlessly on my son?
AGH!! My poor baby, I am to upset to make anymore points than these ones:
Pink wont make you a homo so let people love what they want and
Don’t force your socialization on other people’s children; you might be coming from a stupid place!!!!
*UPDATE ADDITION* He wanted his nail (just one) painted silver like me and my daughter's toes. I had no good reason to say NO so I painted his one finger. Later he was told that nail polish is for girls...The little genious sad "actually it for boys and I like it". DId I mention he just turned 5.
Do not tell my son that anything is 'girl stuff' if you can not give a coherant answer.
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