Guest post: The girl toys
Originally a comment by tigger_the_wing on The rules of play.
From the Cass review and various whistleblowers, we can be pretty sure that the castrations are a punishment for the crime of being a little boy who displays all the behaviours associated with a high likelihood of becoming a gay man after puberty. As has been announced in the Westminster parliament, the Tavistock clinic, who were brought little gender-nonconforming children by their panicking homophobic parents, and egged on by the homophobic sociopaths of Mermaids and Stonewall, were openly ‘transing the gay away’.
My siblings and I, and our children, and my grandchildren, were allowed to play with whatever toys we wished. As the meme says, if the toy isn’t for the genitals, it’s for both boys and girls; if it IS for the genitals, it’s not for either. Yet, so far, not one of the boys who played with ‘girl toys’ – not even the one who displayed all the other signs of being a proto-gay – has turned out to be anything other than straight, after having gone through a normal adolescence.
If Suzie Green hadn’t been so afraid of her son possibly growing up to be gay, he could now be a healthy young man, both physically and mentally. Possibly gay, probably straight (as most men are) but in either case, intact and cognitively mature. Instead, he’s mutilated and brainwashed. Even worse, his evil mother took over and changed Mermaids, which used to reassure parents that gender confusion was almost inevitably solved by going through puberty, and turned it into a cult organisation, ensuring that many more parents would ensure that their poor gender-nonconforming kids (disproportionately same-sex attracted and/or autistic) went through the same process as her son, retroactively justifying her otherwise unjustified manipulative behaviour.
At this point in time, I’m amazed that so many same-sex attracted people still support the parasitic attachment of the T and all the other alphabetti spaghetti to the LGB.
This might change with greater awareness of the danger to gay rights posed by blowback arising from trans “rights” over-reach and bullying. Not as as if it hasn’t been obvious for some time that the “support” of the T has been about as useful to lesbians and gays as a boat anchor is to a swimmer. If the T goes down, they’re prepared to take the rest of the “community” to which they’ve grafted themselves down with them. Cutting them loose will not be easy, as LGB Alliance found out. The T will not be shed without a fight. They’re allowed to exclude whomever they like at will, but they are never to be subject to exclusion themselves.
One of the great achievements of feminism has been a slightly more equal sharing of domestic work, eg cooking, child rearing, etc.*
Playing with toys such as the one above, or with dolls, prams, and mini cleaning tools, is an introduction to boys of domestic labour and can normalise it in a way no Tedtalk ever can. It can also be said that letting girls play with trucks, diggers, trains, etc shows them the possibilities of work with those implements. All in all, play is a way to introduce children to the world.
*Yes, I am aware there is still too much inequality here, but a start has been made.
Rev, when I was growing up, we didn’t have many toys, so we made do with what we had most of the time. My sister did have a Barbie doll, but we were more likely to be found outside playing ball, building forts and using bamboo shoots from what grew near our house to play war (swords, not guns), or playing superhero. Three girls and one boy, but we played so-called boys games more than so-called girls games.
The interesting thing is, on the rare occasion we played “girl” games, my brother never joined us.
The existence of normal ‘femme’ straight boys, and ‘butch’ straight girls, is unacceptable to the alphabet soup crowd.
John the Drunkard wrote:
Oh, they accept this, even claim to celebrate it. It’s just that it’s only fair and right to gently ask the gender nonconforming children — in a totally unobtrusive and noninvasive way, of course —whether it’s possible they might be trans.
“Are you? It’s completely fine if you’re not — but are you? Think about it. Some kids feel they belong in a different body, that they have a penis but they’re really a girl — or people keep telling them they’re a girl but they know that’s wrong. They’re a boy on the inside. If that’s what you’re like (and I’m not saying you are) then don’t be afraid to tell me. Lots of kids are being very very brave and coming out transgender. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s something we celebrate! Pride month! You belong ! We love you!!! Either way, of course. Gender nonconformity is great, too. Just think about it. We’re here for you.”
There’s something almost touching about the naïveté involved in these types of Noncoercive Child-Led Gentle Interrogations. When some of the children shyly confess that yes, they do think they’re trans, the TRAs are completely convinced they did nothing to prompt it. There was no leading, just some information and the promise that it’s safe. Everyone involved knew and agreed that playing with dolls doesn’t mean someone’s a girl, so we can eliminate that entire line of possibility. It’s not about stereotypes. Nobody “transed “a child. It doesn’t happen. It’s a spontaneous admission. Children know who they are.
It reminds me of the Satanic Panic and Child Abuse scares of the 80’s and 90’s when adults felt no compunction putting heavy pressure on kids to “admit you were abused” under the blithe assumption that NO child who wasn’t abused would or could ever say that they were. This time, it’s “trans kids.”
I don’t know how much this has been looked into, but I find it dubious that there actually exists a significant correlation between homosexuality and childhood toy choice. Perhaps due to the existence of the stereotype, homosexuals’ childhoods have a tendency to be mis-remembered? Or maybe children are less likely to be allowed to play with toys associated with the other sex when they grow up in conservative environments where homosexuality is frowned upon? Note that the latter would fit rather well with the post’s main proposition.
Sastra, if that doesn’t work, they tell them they’re like a PopTart. Great. Tell a kid they’re a fruit filled pastry intended to be put in a toaster and eaten…and not even a good fruit filled pastry.
Mosnae, I’ve been saying that for a long time, and people still insist that most non-conforming kids grow up to be gay. That hasn’t been my experience, so maybe I’m biased against it, but many, if not most, of the tomboys I knew growing up grew into heterosexual women with husbands and kids, and many of them are happy because they are not rigidly adhering to gender stereotypes.
I wasn’t a tomboy, but I wasn’t femme either. I just sort of…was. What would they make of me?
When girl play with so-called girl’s toys, people say, Oh, she’ll be a good mother someday! But when a boy plays with these toys, nobody ever says, Oh, he’ll be a good father someday! Why is this?
Men grow up to father children & to cook & take care of the house. Both my brothers married career women, neither of which liked to cook, nor were they very good at it. My brothers, like my sisters & me, are fabulous cooks & enjoy being in the kitchen. This doesn’t mean they’re gay, it means they like to cook!
I was a tomboy but I didn’t grow up to be a lesbian. I have a niece who was a girly girl when she was a child who did become a lesbian. How we act & the toys we play with when we are children don’t mean a thing except that’s what we like to do when we are kids.
It also means that grown-ups are wicked stupid, which is what we said when we were kids & I still believe that. Part of me never grew up & I’m proud of that.