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In one experiment, mothers were asked to guess the steepness of a carpeted slope that their 11-month olds would be able to crawl. Then the children actually crawled the slope, and the difference between actual and mother-predicted angles was noted. The results showed that both boys and girls were able to crawl the same degree of incline. However, the predictions of the mothers were correct within one degree for the boys and underestimated their daughterâs ability by nine degrees. What this shows is that the presumption that boys are more physical causes parents to encourage their boys more in physical activities while cautioning their girls. This further translates into providing more opportunities for boys to be physical and fewer for girls. The result? Boys actually do develop stronger physical skills than girls. But not because of anything innate or biological, but rather because of the gender roles that the parents subconsciously projected onto their babies.
Gender Neutral Parenting: 5 Ways To Avoid Implicit Sexism (via Everyday Feminism)
The experiment mentioned is available in full HERE. Â
(via field-notes-on-feminism)
âNot all conservative Christians are like that.â
Okay look.
If youâre a senior in high school, and your freshman little sister comes up to you with bloody scraped knees and tears all over her face crying, âI hate seniors! They always bully me!â you donât stand there and lecture her on why she shouldnât label all seniors as bullies.
You donât fucking do that shit.
You say, âDonât worry. Iâll make sure those seniors donât pick on you.â
You take responsibility for protecting her.
Because sheâs your little sister. And she canât fight bullies on her own.
Thatâs how privilege fucking works. Women, gay people, black people, trans people, Muslims, atheists, every single minority in the United Statesâtheyâre the little sisters getting beat up by your fellow upperclassmen. You donât make it their responsibility. YOU TAKE IT UPON YOURSELF TO HELP THEM.
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Rebloggable by Request. The bodily autonomy argument was what convinced me to go from extremely pro-life to pro-choice in a matter of days. Youâd have to find a way to convince me that itâs OK to use someoneâs body parts without their consent to convince me to be pro-life again. Â
I canât find it right now, but thereâs a court case establishing that a father does not have an obligation to donateâI think it was bone marrowâto save his childâs life.
And yet weâre supposed to put up with what amounts to forcible donation of our uteruses? Somethingâs not right there.
Iâve been pro-choice pretty much my whole life, but it wasnât until maybe five years ago that I heard this particular argument; since then Iâve felt a lot more confident in my stance and have even used this argument against pro-life people who have tried to convince me.
Iâm not going to argue with you about your stance on abortion, but Iâm going to point out that if you agree with the OPâs belief that an unwanted pregnancy constitutes an attack on the bodily autonomy of the mother by the child you are (perhaps unintentionally) implying two things.
1) That the punishment of someone who infringes on anotherâs bodily integrity should be decided without consideration of the offenderâs intent or ability to understand what he did. 2) That the death penalty is an acceptable punishment for infringement upon bodily integrity.
I thought about not responding because I dislike controversy but this bothers me a lot so here I am
I donât mind controversy, so Iâll address this no problem. Youâre trying to frame this in the context of punishment, which is a straw-man argument (and yeah, youâre absolutely arguing with my stance on abortion). This isnât about punishment.
What weâre saying is that human beings have a right to decide what happens to their own bodies, even if that decision results in the death of someone or something else. For example, by law, you cannot be forced to donate one of your kidneys or part of your liver to someone who needs it. You cannot be forced to give blood. Even if you are the only person with a certain blood type and your refusal will mean the death of someone else - maybe a family member, maybe your child - if you refuse, that is your right as a human being and no court can prosecute you for murder. You, and only you, are the final arbiter of what happens to your body, and if you decide the risks are too great, the right to refuse to help is absolute.
What you are implying is that bodily autonomy ought to be less important than saving someoneâs life; that a fetus, or a human being, should be given the opportunity to live at the expense of other peopleâs bodily autonomy.
So put it into context. You have a kidney thatâs a perfect match to someone in the hospital - letâs call him Fred - who will die in the next week if he doesnât get it. For your own personal reasons, you do not wish to have your kidney removed. Your reasons arenât material to this particular argument, but they can range anywhere from your phobia of hospitals to your allergy to most kinds of anesthesia, to a history of kidney disease in your family that may mean you will need that extra kidney one day or to the simple fact that you do not wish to give this kidney at this time. The point is: you do not consent.
If life is considered more important than bodily autonomy, then the law can force you to be taken to the hospital against your will, be sedated against your will, cut open against your will, and have your organ removed against your will. You may be tied down to the bed; you may be locked in a room and not allowed to leave until you agree to the operation. You may be shown tapes of Fred and his family over and over and over again. But however it happens, it happens without your continuous consent. This isnât Fredâs fault - he doesnât even know you exist, he has no idea that this is happening, and maybe he would be horrified if he knew and would ask them to stop. But itâs happening because life, in this universe, is more important than bodily autonomy. Namely, Fredâs life is more important than your bodily autonomy.
Now put yourself back in the world we live in - you still have that kidney thatâs perfect for good olâ Fred in the hospital who needs it within a week, otherwise heâll die. If you refuse, for whatever reason, the result is that Fred does, in fact, die. But Fred has not been punished, Fred wasnât given a death sentence. The decision you made had nothing to do with punishing Fred; it was about your health, your body, your life. Certainly people might be angry that you didnât give Fred the kidney that he needed, but just because he needed it to survive did not mean he had a right to it that trumped yours. No matter what reason you had, your bodily autonomy was more important than his need.
Now, if you think that the world where life should be more important than bodily autonomy is the one we ought to live in, then weâre going to have to just agree to disagree, because I find that a fucking Orwellian nightmare of the highest order.
If, however, you agree that itâs better that we live in a world where someone else doesnât get to make the decision about what happens to you based on the need of some third person, then Iâd like to welcome you to the pro-choice movement, because congratulations - youâre pro-choice.
too true.
I almost didnât turn the sound on. Â I almost missed out on the greatest thing I have witnessed all week.
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No more boys' toys or girls' bedding.
âAfter customers complained about toys being segregated for boys and girls, Target has announced that it will start getting rid of gendered signage in some departments.
In a statement, Target said, âwe know that shopping preferences and needs change and, as guests have pointed out, in some departments like Toys, Home or Entertainment, suggesting products by gender is unnecessary.ââ
*clears throat*
Accurate.
The End of Boys and Girls: These Companies are Going to Change How Your Kids Dress
If your child doesnât want to dress within the âgirls wear pink dresses, boys wear race car shirtsâ binaryâor doesnât identify as a boy or a girl at allâyou will most likely have to look beyond the mall and department stores to find clothes that match their interests and identities. Luckily, companies like Svaha, Handsome in Pink, BuddingSTEM, Princess Awesome, Quirkie Kids, and Girls Will Be were all started by parents who transformed their frustration with the mainstream childrenâs clothing industry into efforts to make a difference in how kids dress and what they think of themselves and their interests. For kids who want to dress outside of the gender binary, having these options available is so important in letting them know that what they like and how they want to look is ok, which will only do wonders in fostering self-confidence down the line.
Related Reading: Nurturing Queerness and Gender Independence in Children and Youth
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THIS IS WHAT I ASPIRE TO HAVE MY HOUSE TO BE.
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fuzzywarmkitteh I saw the beginning of this and thought "Sarah better have tagged me in this" as I was scrolling down.