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Darwinism

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We all do the best we can. Someday we’ll understand sex and gender.

Until then, our aunts, uncles, and grandparents will still get blue for boys and pink for girls.

Except my mom, she’s awesome like that.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
We all do the best we can. Someday we’ll understand sex and gender.

Until then, our aunts, uncles, and grandparents will still get blue for boys and pink for girls.

Except my mom, she’s awesome like that.
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I don't recall the last (traditional) gender-specific gift (including colors) that was given to any children that I know of in the last few years. I think it's just more of curiosity of a boy or a girl.
 
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Yeah. I totally agree. Pretty rare for infants.

I always like giving LEGO when they’re old enough. Or things like K’nex, sciencey stuff, or books.

Kids will be relentlessly tormented for ten to twelve years before they laugh all the way to the bank.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Someday we’ll understand sex and gender.
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Nah, we really won't.

We've had 300 thousand years FFS. :p

It will always be a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The best we can do is not make people feel like sh-t about themselves.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah. I totally agree. Pretty rare for infants.

I always like giving LEGO when they’re old enough. Or things like K’nex, sciencey stuff, or books.

Kids will be relentlessly tormented for ten to twelve years before they laugh all the way to the bank.
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Def on the gifts. Something fun, but also something they can learn from. Bonus is if the gift annoys the parents. :D
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah. I totally agree. Pretty rare for infants.

I always like giving LEGO when they’re old enough. Or things like K’nex, sciencey stuff, or books.

Kids will be relentlessly tormented for ten to twelve years before they laugh all the way to the bank.
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LEGO are excellent if you resent the parents. I plan to get my grandkids a host of pointy toys.
 
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Kepler said:
Nah, we really won't.

We've had 300 thousand years FFS. :p

It will always be a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The best we can do is not make people feel like sh-t about themselves.
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I don’t believe that and I’m not sure you do either. It hasn’t been but the last 30 years we’ve even started to explore gender for what it really is. In those 30 years we’ve learned a lot. Just because the evangelicals and their bigotry are deeply entrenched doesn’t mean society at large won’t adopt the more correct theories.
 
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The Rube said:
I don't recall the last (traditional) gender-specific gift (including colors) that was given to any children that I know of in the last few years. I think it's just more of curiosity of a boy or a girl.
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You need to come down here. It's still trucks vs dollies. When they hit 5 it's guns vs tea cups.
 
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Kepler said:
LEGO are excellent if you resent the parents. I plan to get my grandkids a host of pointy toys.
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Just buy a giant Rubbermaid tub. Or have a separate room in the basement just for legos and toys. Our parents would have rather walked through the Cambodian border than set foot in that room.
 
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I’m also glad future mrs. dx is completely in agreement with this. Hell, she’s more in front of the science than I am.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
It hasn’t been but the last 30 years we’ve even started to explore gender for what it really is.
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Cultural conceptions of sex and gender change every couple generations and have for all of human history. It's been a drunkard's walk -- it isn't anything like "progress." The idea that there was a single stable set of gender norms before the 80s is utter poppycock. Today isn't the endpoint of a trend, it's just a local maximum before the next inflection point.

See also: liberty, race, justice, theology, government, equality, law, philosophy, and every other human cultural creation.

All this has happened before, and it will happen again.
 
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