Friday, September 28, 2007
Reading Reflection # 4
What was the deal with chapter four this time? Gender neutral roles? I usally agree with the stuff that Newman says, but this time it is ridiculous. In society today male and female roles are socialized. If a boy is raised under gender neutral roles, i think he may develop problems when he sees other people his age acting differently. This may hurt him from developing social skills among his peers because he will seem different. This does not seem healthy and i do not think that it is a very good idea. Children just need to be free to be boys if they are boys and girls if they are girls.
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I could not agree more with Kevin, I felt that chapter four was some what ridiculous. I think it is asinine to try to raise your children in an gender neutral setting, because the world is a gendered setting. It is like these parents wanted to set their children up to fail. It seemed to me that the parents Newman was talking about in the chapter were not very good parents in my opinion. They were pushing what seemed to me to be an ultra progressive belief system onto their un-consenting children. Which when removed from their microcosm commune of gender neutrality and placed in the real world, would have no benefits and perhaps several negative repercussions for raising their children that way.
You are absolutely right. I don't think that you should raise kids in a genderless society. In some ways its not feesible and I think can lead to problems.
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