mutta erittäin mielenkiintoista:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/22/swedish-parents-baby-gender
"The news that a Swedish couple have declined to reveal the gender of their two-and-a-half-year-old child prompts a few questions, the first of which is: to whom? The answer, apparently, is anyone who asks. The parents deflect casual inquiries by simply saying they don't disclose this information. And they are careful never to use personal pronouns, only referring to the child by its name, Pop.
The second question is: why? "We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset," says Pop's mother. "It's cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead."
I have a grudging admiration for people who don't find parenting difficult enough on its own, and need to set little extra problems for themselves to keep it challenging. Pop has a wardrobe that includes trousers and dresses, and Pop popself mostly decides what Pop is going to wear each morning. Pop's hairstyle is also reimagined regularly so that Pop's look doesn't conform to gender stereotypes. It makes you wonder how long it takes to get Pop ready to go anywhere where someone might inquire as to the child's sex.
Comments on the Swedish news website where the story appeared range from the broadly sympathetic to the predictably hostile: "This is tantamount to child abuse," said one. The idea of concealing a child's gender strikes people as cruel, dangerously experimental, unnecessarily odd, and somehow quintessentially Swedish. Ironically, Sweden is a country where there seem to be relatively few drawbacks or advantages to being one gender or the other. Fathers get impressive amounts of paternity leave, and it is expected that Swedish women will comprise the majority of lawyers, economists, architects and doctors within the next 20 years.
Based on that forecast, I might be tempted to pressure Pop into wearing more dresses. Just kidding, Pop. Honestly, take your time. We have all day."
Olisi kiva tietää onko tällaisia lapsia enemmänkin ja miten heillä sitten aikuisena menee, miten he aikuisina kokevat itsensä. Kokevatko ylipäätään omaavan sukupuolen vai ei.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/22/swedish-parents-baby-gender
"The news that a Swedish couple have declined to reveal the gender of their two-and-a-half-year-old child prompts a few questions, the first of which is: to whom? The answer, apparently, is anyone who asks. The parents deflect casual inquiries by simply saying they don't disclose this information. And they are careful never to use personal pronouns, only referring to the child by its name, Pop.
The second question is: why? "We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset," says Pop's mother. "It's cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead."
I have a grudging admiration for people who don't find parenting difficult enough on its own, and need to set little extra problems for themselves to keep it challenging. Pop has a wardrobe that includes trousers and dresses, and Pop popself mostly decides what Pop is going to wear each morning. Pop's hairstyle is also reimagined regularly so that Pop's look doesn't conform to gender stereotypes. It makes you wonder how long it takes to get Pop ready to go anywhere where someone might inquire as to the child's sex.
Comments on the Swedish news website where the story appeared range from the broadly sympathetic to the predictably hostile: "This is tantamount to child abuse," said one. The idea of concealing a child's gender strikes people as cruel, dangerously experimental, unnecessarily odd, and somehow quintessentially Swedish. Ironically, Sweden is a country where there seem to be relatively few drawbacks or advantages to being one gender or the other. Fathers get impressive amounts of paternity leave, and it is expected that Swedish women will comprise the majority of lawyers, economists, architects and doctors within the next 20 years.
Based on that forecast, I might be tempted to pressure Pop into wearing more dresses. Just kidding, Pop. Honestly, take your time. We have all day."
Olisi kiva tietää onko tällaisia lapsia enemmänkin ja miten heillä sitten aikuisena menee, miten he aikuisina kokevat itsensä. Kokevatko ylipäätään omaavan sukupuolen vai ei.
Vastaukset 4
Vanhimmat
..kovinkaan terveeltä. Ja lapsi kyllä luonnostaan omaksuu itselleen "oikean" sukupuoliroolin ihan opettamattakin.
olekaan kuullut moisesta. :O
Mutta toisaalta lapset tais vasta joskus 4-vuotiaana hahmottamaan ympäristöstä että "heiii, täällähän on tyttöjä ja poikia" ja vasta siinä vaiheessa pohtimaan sitä omaa sukupuoli-identiteettiään. Että eikai siitä vielä tuossa iässä ole haittaa. Jos sama tulee jatkumaan sitten ihan aikuisikään saakka, veikkaisin, että sitten kehityksessä on saattanut tapahtua jotain.
Well.
Ihan jännä koe.
Olin hyvin jälkeenjäänyt poikalapsi. Kotini ankaran uskonnollinen. Vasta ekaluokalle kouluun mentyäni kuulin vittu sanan. Hyvä niin, koska selkäänhän tuon sanan lausumisesta olisin saanut.