Parents try to raise Genderless Children

Well, they're a bunch of idiots. What's the purpose of raising a 'genderless' child anyway? Gender roles were constructed for a reason.Shottayouth13-

[QUOTE="Lockedge"] Well, if I had kids, I'd follow #6, and some watered down combination of a few others. However, I will agree that 2,3,4,5 and 8 are pretty nuts. Ace6301

And yes parents should restrict their kids sexually. Why should they allow a 12 or 13 year old to be running around sleeping with everyone in sight?

[QUOTE="Ace6301"][QUOTE="Lockedge"] Well, if I had kids, I'd follow #6, and some watered down combination of a few others. However, I will agree that 2,3,4,5 and 8 are pretty nuts. whipassmt

And yes parents should restrict their kids sexually. Why should they allow a 12 or 13 year old to be running around sleeping with everyone in sight?

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"] Half of them are pretty nuts but the other ones seem pretty sensible. Not restricting your kids sexuality to whatever they want and not forcing religion on them seem like really good ideas.Teenaged

And yes parents should restrict their kids sexually. Why should they allow a 12 or 13 year old to be running around sleeping with everyone in sight?

Also I imagine the reason that the Chinese push the "no religion until 18" is because they don't want Chinese people to believe in anything higher than the government, because Communism hates religion, partially because loyalty to God prevents total loyalty to the state and because religion is an alternative vision that breaks the monopoly of Communism.

I wouldn't be surprised if the idea of "no religion until 18" was devised by socialists or communists.

Pretty sure I've heard something like this before... kid ended up killing him/herself.

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

airshocker

[QUOTE="airshocker"]

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Moriarity_

It's more important to make it an IT so that it feels like an IT. By letting it pick what IT wants to wear and do its hair however and wear makeup or whatever when other, normal kids are behaving in accordance with their sex is just putting the child in a disadvantage not to mention ridicule. Imagine one of those kids growing up looking like it described. Hair half braided, makeup on yet a masculine face, some crazy outfit walking around. It's perfectly normal. It's called L.A.

The only people who know are Storm's brothers, Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2, a close family friend and the two midwives who helped deliver the baby in a birthing pool at their Toronto home on New Year's Day.

YellowOneKanobi

Well that explains alot...(answering "what type of people would ever do this?"), but yeah I don't understand any logic in anything about this case at all.

Don't they realise the sex will be obvious in like 6 months? And to hear that this is in Toronto embarrasses me to be Canadian

Don't they realise the sex will be obvious in like 6 months? And to hear that this is in Toronto embarrasses me to be Canadian

LaytonsCat

I would have preferred being raised that way.

The child may have a hard time when SHe sees that the world isn't as free and expressing yourself is bound to the rules of the tribe. If SHe is tough then maybe SHe can be an agent of change.

Is Storm really that weird of a name? :? My friend's brother is named Storm, I've never seen anything wrong with it.

[QUOTE="Moriarity_"][QUOTE="airshocker"]

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Nibroc420

Because the kid is going to be confused as **** and socially awkward when he actually has to interact with other people. He's going to get made fun of, harrassed, etc. The parents are idiots.

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="Moriarity_"] Gotta agree although it's not necessarily the stupidest thing but it ranks pretty high up there.SpartanMSU

Because the kid is going to be confused as **** and socially awkward when he actually has to interact with other people. He's going to get made fun of, harrassed, etc. The parents are idiots.

[QUOTE="SpartanMSU"]

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"] Not really... They just dont care if it's a girl or a boy... Why should the child have to fall into gender stereotypes? Which is exactly what the parents are trying to prevent, by making no-one aware of his/her/it's gender.Nibroc420

Because the kid is going to be confused as **** and socially awkward when he actually has to interact with other people. He's going to get made fun of, harrassed, etc. The parents are idiots.

Oh, I do in fact get it. Do you?

I know what they're doing and their intentions are clear. You don't have to explain it.

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="SpartanMSU"]

Because the kid is going to be confused as **** and socially awkward when he actually has to interact with other people. He's going to get made fun of, harrassed, etc. The parents are idiots.

SpartanMSU

Oh, I do in fact get it. Do you?

I know what they're doing and their intentions are clear. You don't have to explain it.

I don't see the point in this. when the child gets a little older it wil be obvious if its a boy or girl

toast_burner

"Storm" and "Jazz" well there you go

umm, men and women are naturally different, not only physically but mentally as well. You can't pretend a baby doesn't have a sex. It's either a boy or a girl and that will determine at least at a basic level what kind of person he or she is going to be. These parents are just morons. ferrari2001

umm, men and women are naturally different, not only physically but mentally as well. You can't pretend a baby doesn't have a sex. It's either a boy or a girl and that will determine at least at a basic level what kind of person he or she is going to be. These parents are just morons. ferrari2001

Sex isn't gender, they aren't pretending the baby doesn't have a sex. You'd also be inclined to know that homosexuals have been shown to have similar brain structure/chemistry to heterosexuals of the opposite sex.

Gender and sex are two different things, ones in the head the other isn't.

and in other news...Parents completely **** up their kid's life.....Omni-Slash

*Thinks back to when I was a genderless child*

...:|

[QUOTE="SirWander"]

I understood it. I was just making fun of it.

But still, the child's name is Storm; that should be embarrassment enough for it. And the parents are just exploiting it, thinking they can make some social change. But the rational seems genuine enough, that a person's gender is irrelevant to the character they manifest. But most people will not share that viewpoint.

MrGeezer

If the person's gender is so irrelevant, then why try so hard to raise the kid genderless? That almost seems to defeat any point that the parents were trying to make.

Win

Stupid PArents... They Probaly think there proving a positive poitn with this too, but it's just creeping people out.

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]umm, men and women are naturally different, not only physically but mentally as well. You can't pretend a baby doesn't have a sex. It's either a boy or a girl and that will determine at least at a basic level what kind of person he or she is going to be. These parents are just morons. HoolaHoopMan

Sex isn't gender, they aren't pretending the baby doesn't have a sex. You'd also be inclined to know that homosexuals have been shown to have similar brain structure/chemistry to heterosexuals of the opposite sex.

Gender and sex are two different things, ones in the head the other isn't.

I dont get it, does the baby have some disorder of some kind or are the parents just dumba***s?

Jolt_counter119

[QUOTE="HoolaHoopMan"]

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]umm, men and women are naturally different, not only physically but mentally as well. You can't pretend a baby doesn't have a sex. It's either a boy or a girl and that will determine at least at a basic level what kind of person he or she is going to be. These parents are just morons. whipassmt

Sex isn't gender, they aren't pretending the baby doesn't have a sex. You'd also be inclined to know that homosexuals have been shown to have similar brain structure/chemistry to heterosexuals of the opposite sex.

Gender and sex are two different things, ones in the head the other isn't.

This "parents" are just a bunch of morons

Something tells me the parents are mongs that really wanted a baby girl but want a transvestite boy now

I really don't see the point in keeping that a secret from people. They must really want attention.

Sounds to me like they just want attention.

The idea of letting a child explore what they like and not letting the child be influenced by gender stereotypes is not a bad idea. However, society does not have that viewpoint. When this kid starts school, all the kids are going to bully him relentlessly. Once this occurs, it's no longer about forcing the child to conform to a bunch of gender-associated stereotypes. It's about protecting the child's well-being and self-esteem so SHe doesn't kill his/herself when SHe is in high school.

To put it bluntly, the kid is in for a crappy life.

lol Nice names :P

[QUOTE="HoolaHoopMan"]

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]umm, men and women are naturally different, not only physically but mentally as well. You can't pretend a baby doesn't have a sex. It's either a boy or a girl and that will determine at least at a basic level what kind of person he or she is going to be. These parents are just morons. whipassmt

Sex isn't gender, they aren't pretending the baby doesn't have a sex. You'd also be inclined to know that homosexuals have been shown to have similar brain structure/chemistry to heterosexuals of the opposite sex.

Gender and sex are two different things, ones in the head the other isn't.