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31 Aug 2014, 7:29 pm
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My parents had absolutely no problem when I played with action figures as a kid, which technically are dolls, they just call them that because most people are still very set in what's considered gender-appropriate . But girls get away with doing boy things more because society thinks they're superior to girl stuff. 
I grew up with action figures - GI Joe (the real twelve inch high ones, not those teeny things), Big Jim, and a host of others - and I think I turned out okay. And guess what, while my daughter loves playing with Barbie dolls, she also loves superhero action figures meant for boys, and I have absolutely no problem with that.
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31 Aug 2014, 7:42 pm
Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I just had a thought 
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
Most people can't see beyond their pocketbooks.
It's invasive with plenty of room for state abuse is what it is. Very few parents are anywhere near as bad as those two douchebags in the article so why punish everyone?
C'mon, Blabby and I weren't seriously talking about taxing people to pay for robotic surrogate children before they can have the real thing!
There, I can to two-zies. 
With you progressives it's hard to tell when you're being serious. It's not like yoos people don't ask for other off the wall ideas to become law.
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31 Aug 2014, 8:13 pm
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I just had a thought - I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
Most people can't see beyond their pocketbooks.
It's invasive with plenty of room for state abuse is what it is. Very few parents are anywhere near as bad as those two douchebags in the article so why punish everyone?
C'mon, Blabby and I weren't seriously talking about taxing people to pay for robotic surrogate children before they can have the real thing!
There, I can to two-zies. With you progressives it's hard to tell when you're being serious. It's not like yoos people don't ask for other off the wall ideas to become law.
Nah, you not being able to figure out if we're serious or not is you just being an Aspie, like the rest of us.
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01 Sep 2014, 9:28 am
01 Sep 2014, 8:06 pm
Sweetleaf wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Why would anyone even care if a child was playing with dolls??I played with cars when I was little.Thank goodness my folks didn't beat me for unladylike play.
A kid should be able to play with any toy,(as long as it's not dangerous)if they are happy who cares?
A kid should be able to play with any toy,(as long as it's not dangerous)if they are happy who cares?
Most people feel that a boy playing with girls dolls is disturbing and that's just how it is. Action figures, of course, are fine. No amount of progressive whitewashing is going to change that in the near future where most people are concerned, either.
I think you know what Im talking about.....
Why are conservatives so opposed to progress? I mean they say 'those progressives' as if progressive is a dirty word. Also why should people stick to gender norms/stereotypes...its time society let go of petty things like that.
If you go back to page 1 of this thread you'll see that I condemned the parent's treatment of this kid. I think you're reading a little too much into my reply to the dragon lady. You should know by now that any attempt to vilify me I'll just turn around so that it'll bring pleasure for me and frustration for you.
Kraichgauer wrote:
Probably because, when you get down to it, conservatives' primary motivation is fear - either, fear of the change, or "the other," or of what they don't understand. Only conservatives are going to think playing with dolls will make a boy gay - or for that matter, that there's something wrong with being gay.
Yes, those terrible conservatives are really something.
01 Sep 2014, 8:12 pm
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Kraichgauer
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02 Sep 2014, 11:50 pm
Raptor wrote:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkAszeuXXXo[/youtube]
Inventive little guy!
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