Sally, my friend, how many Norcal posts have you read? This one is tame in comparison!
Anyway, I have several problems with this entire mess. The first is enclosed within the L.A. Times article itself.
All year long, he's been donning princess garb in the dressup room of his preschool. The adults in his life are fine with this. The little girls, however, have a problem with this. "Boys can't be princesses", they tell Luc, designating him a wizard instead.
Ok, fair enough. These girls are two young to understand the ins and outs of sexuality and the meaning of dressing up as a princess, if there is one. They simply are following social cues of what a boy and girl does, and how they dress and behave. They're being
normal girls, after all, and they clearly see something they believe to be
abnormal.
More from the L.A. Times:
"I want to encourage him to stand up and be himself", Anna said. "But my 4 year old is too young and fragile to know where the social boundaries are. And I don't want his feelings to be hurt on what she be one of his happiest nights."
Hold on a second. Anna freely admits in the last part of the article that girls have been telling him{Luc} about social cues all year long through discouraging him to be a princess. But he wants to be one anyway! Id say he's very aware of social boundaries, if by nothing else but what he's been told over and again. As like the girls, he's likely too young to understand gay and lesbian issues, but there's no doubt he's simply being himself. There's a contradiction here with the parents wanting him to be himself, and failing to see that he's been given very obvious social cues, and is unscathed. Chances are, if he hasn't been hurt by now, he never will be. The problem, in my eyes, lies elsewhere. More from the Times:
My Grandma was horrified when we posted pictures of him on Facebook of Luc in a Tiara and a princess dress in a visit to the dress-up display at the County Fair."
And there it is. I wonder how Grandma reacted to Anna getting married to another woman, and fighting so hard for her rights to live as she chooses. Im guessing not favorably, but she pushed through anyway. With Luc demonstrating the same push-through attitude, and even wearing a princess outfit to a
County Fair, I see the problem here. Grandma saw a problem, "early onset gayness", as she called it, and hence the entire issue arose. The same women who fought to be among the first to marry in their state and let their son be himself at a large County Fair with no reported issues are now bowing to Grandma. Could a person be more hypocritical? Luc's feelings aren't going to be hurt if they haven't already, it's the women's pride which is hurt. Because of one woman, Grandma,they're refusing to allow their son to be himself. I find this highly hypocritical and unexcusable.
There are plenty of young boys out there dressing up as serial killers and Satan for Halloween... how in the World is a boy dressing as a princess worse than that? Anyone who doesn't realize that is an idiot, so why even care what idiots think?
Yeah, JMT said it correctly here. Each year, Ive seen princesses with bare midriffs and skirts up to their calfs no more then 4 years old knock on my door. Hell, my wife and I even had a no more then 6 year old boy show up on trick or treat night as a serial killer, threating to "
shank us" if we didnt have a certain type of candy. For goodness sakes, who's sending the better message here? This is a social and moral issue as well, and Id far prefer my son or daughter to dress as their opposite gender then threaten to
shank people. I believe these women are acting in utter cowaardice, and they're not teaching their child to be himself, no matter how much they claim. It's a shame when a 4 year old child shows he can handle something far better then a parent can. To be young and innocent again.
