I found an article online about a gender confused boy being welcomed into the girl scouts, link here:
It's a classic case of boy-thinks-he's-a-girl - except the girl scouts actually agreed. The important part is that he was DENIED admittance accepted only because they feared a "public relations nightmare." It seems like the power of the media greatly influenced the boy's admittance into the girl scouts, that people and organizations are simply coerced into tolerating gender issues. Is this society shifting towards tolerance or simply a measure of power?
I don't usually comment on blog post,but there are certain issues I think about sex and gender that need to be finite. It's okay for an individual to think/be/or want to be the sex that they are not assigned by birth. however it is another thing for individuals to step inside and outside the lines, and be rewarded for it. The issue of sex is simple whether we named the sexes and assigned roles through our different cultural socialization the fact remains you need two opposites to reproduce. This is a standard given to us to make distinctions, but not to discriminate as we have. When we bring in gender to collectively different sex events and activities by way of force or semantics we confuse and break rules for no reason. There are boy scouts.....This us a tough issue to respond to because there are so many aspects to it. Should an obviously masculine boy be allowed into the girls scouts because he wants to or what if there is an obviously masculine boy who likes the girls uniform as opposed to the boys and wants to wear that in his boy scout troop? We need boundaries, but we don't need suppression.
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