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Originally Posted by Ark2
You aren't an ass, but you do come off as being incredibly naive if you think that Devil's Advocate provided concrete examples. You want a concrete example, check out the story of David Reimer. As an infant, his penis was burned off during a botched circumcision. So, not knowing what else to do, they performed a sex change operation on the child and attempted to raise the child as a girl. Despite all their efforts, the child rejected the female gender role. The child behaved in a distinctly masculine manner, are rejected what was typical of female child. The child eventually rejected the sex change and ended up living a very tragic. I feel that this far more "concrete" than DA's general observations that are clearly biased by his own preconceived notions.
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This is a case of a child's gender role being forced. This is what these parents are trying not to do and are being lambasted for it.
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Originally Posted by Ark2
If I come off as being dramatic then it is only because I am so sick and tired of the vilification of gender roles. There is nothing wrong with girls wanting to play with dolls and boys wanting to play with trucks. Consequently, there is nothing wrong with women wanting to be nurses and men wanting to be engineers. What's important to me, however, is that if a woman wants to be an engineer or if a man wants to be a nurse, then there shouldn't be anything preventing them from doing that.
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You are absolutely correct and all these parents are saying to their child is, be who you want to be and like what you want to like. They are NOT saying there is anything wrong with girls playing with dolls and boys playing with trucks. They are also not saying there is anything wrong with boys playing with dolls and girls playing with trucks.
They are simply giving their child the choice and the freedom to be who they want to be. I don't see why this is so awful.
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Originally Posted by Ark2
The reason people make those assumptions is because the majority of nurses are females. If more men became nurses, then people would gradually stop making those assumptions. As long as there is nothing prohibitive about such an assumption, then I don't see the problem.
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The problem is respect. A lot of patients respect nurses far less than doctors. A lot of times I was working with female technologists who VASTLY outranked me in qualifications and experience and still the patients thought I was the person to talk to because I was a man. I think that is wrong.