For this post I decided to blog a bit about "Is that My Son Wearing a Dress?" by Matt Cheplic (2010). I understand the son's want to wear a dress. When I was little, I wore little boy's clothes because I HATED dresses with a firey passion of a thousand suns. My mother, after having 2 other girls who did the exact same thing, was more accepting of the concept and allowed me to do so. But, when she had my oldest sister Gwen, it wasn't the same story. Which is why I also understand the stance that the father took on this subject.
My mom did not like the idea of letting her little girls run around in boy's clothes because it made her look like she couldn't afford to buy normal girl's clothes. Also, my mother and the father in the text, were not happy because of the fact that little kids are mean. Young children, when presented with something different, including girl's in boy's clothes and boys in girl's clothes, don't know what to do and often resort to teasing and sequestering of the one who is different. It is rediculous, but that's how children are.
I agree that is how children are. In the daycare I work at we have these purple shiny shoes that the kids have to wear sometimes when they have accidents and their shoes get wet. Of course when the boys have to wear them they giggle and ask why they are wearing girl shoes just because they are purple. Just the way kids are.
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