Couple Finally Reveals Child's Gender, Five Years After Birth

• Guyverunit4 wrote on 2012-01-22 06:26

  Quote from Chiyuri;744513:

  I see some sort of contradiction in-between both bolded statements.

  
  
  I just said it wrong
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-01-22 09:48
  hrm
  classic conditioning?
• Koishi wrote on 2012-01-22 22:05
  That kid's going to be ****ed up, pretty sure of this.
  
  Gender is not a ****ing social construct, at best you can argue gender has expressions that are socially constructed. But at some point, people of a given sex (assuming they're not transgender) will identify with the outward expressions associated with their gender. So either the parents are going to let that kid do normal guy things, or they're going to push back and completely **** him up.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2012-01-22 22:39
  Sexuality isn't something that you should be planning. I also don't think that it's as important as a lot of people
  make it out to be.
  
  Compare raising your son to be homosexual/your son deciding that he wants to be homosexual versus your son
  one day deciding that he likes "michael" as more than a friend.
• GabeNewell wrote on 2012-01-23 01:35
  Gender doesn't exist, you have a sex.
  
  

  "Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes?"

  
  >XX and XY
  >slot people into boxes
  
  we don't have to slot people into boxes, nature has done that for us already.
• Micho wrote on 2012-01-23 01:46
  :l This isn't how the child should have been raised and I'm betting people will use this example against same-sex couples having children now. . .
  
  Gosh.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-01-23 02:11

  Quote from GabeNewell;745332:

  Gender doesn't exist, you have a sex.
  
  
  >XX and XY
  >slot people into boxes
  
  we don't have to slot people into boxes, nature has done that for us already.

  
  
  Actually, some are born as XYX (very rare through.)
  I also heard of a girl who was born as just X (not XX, only X) She died at 6 years old I think.
  
  And honestly.. did you have to make a fake account to say dumb things.. you could be more truthful and post this using your real account. Take responsibilities for the things you say instead of hiding behind a fake new account.
  
  The probability is over 99,9999648% that this is a fake account, I honestly don't feel like taking those 0,0000352% seriously so pardon me if you are really not a fake account...
• Ithiliel wrote on 2012-01-23 15:49

  Quote from Chiyuri;745370:

  Actually, some are born as XYX (very rare through.)
  I also heard of a girl who was born as just X (not XX, only X) She died at 6 years old I think.
  
  And honestly.. did you have to make a fake account to say dumb things.. you could be more truthful and post this using your real account. Take responsibilities for the things you say instead of hiding behind a fake new account.
  
  The probability is over 99,9999648% that this is a fake account, I honestly don't feel like taking those 0,0000352% seriously so pardon me if you are really not a fake account...

  
  
  His main account was permabanned quite some time ago, so he's not hiding behind a fake account. Rather, he wanted to add to the discussion so he created a new account he knew would get banned within minutes.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-01-23 20:16
  I'm usually all for bring up a child gender-neutral, but they're doing it all wrong. They claim to want him to find himself, yet they're not allowing him certain things because they think it will force him to be a certain way. THAT is a big no-no. You provide a neutral environment for the child and try not to force things on it just because it's a boy or girl, but you do not keep things from it once it is old enough to decide what it wants and doesn't want.
  
  Idiots.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-01-23 22:37

  Quote from Lilith;745948:

  His main account was permabanned quite some time ago, so he's not hiding behind a fake account. Rather, he wanted to add to the discussion so he created a new account he knew would get banned within minutes.

  
  
  Oh right, ban-dodger, I had forgotten that possibility.