to be fair TS if your old man loves football then chances are you will too, if he somehow does not like football then chances are you wont either

why some people grow up to like football AND support Celtic is really beyond me however

baffling

100 per cent my Dad had no interest and neither did my brother, and I knew loads of boys growing up who had no interest

Yeah exactly because lots of these "gender norms" are just personal preferences and different tastes. It's as ridiculous to say all boys like beer as it would be to say all boys like apples

Bringing this forward on the page as I am really interested in the responses if I get any that is ..

I don't get why anybody would dislike/hate Football, or any Sport for that matter, but then I'm a competition buff so could watch almost anything competition related.:joker:

It's like the world and it's surroundings somehow makes ya brain chicken livered...:shrug:


Not sure about the football mind..I was brought up to play and love rugby..but just at school leaving age I got into going to watch hearts with my mates..my dad never even knew..I would be away up to places like dundee and Falkirk if hearts were not at home...

I loved it, every single second..but not the 2nd hearts got at the end of my first season....Anyway I'm slavering....

I love watching rugby now and only really watch the champions league and world cups on TV nowadays as far as football is concerned....

So I've went from being forced into playing and watching rugby, to rebelling against my parents and seeking of to the football every Saturday. .to then loving my rugby again....mind that may be down to getting punched in the mouth by grimsby football hooligans the last time Scotland played England at Wembley.

Ok to be fair; I'm talking about when I was a kid which is like 20+ years ago now :bawling: and "All" was an exaggeration but it was the vast majority, and any who didn't were made fun of. A lot. Maybe its even a Scottish thing but I assure you it was very real to be accused of being "a girl" or of course "a gay" if you were a boy who didn't like football. Maybe as I suppose a lot of boys will get really into it to "impress" a parent? But of course, emulation of parents is a whole part of the gender divide, too. A lot of "tough guy man's man" guys do NOT like it if their son is less so and will heavily encourage "boy behaviour".

Likewise "girly mums", of course, less likely to approve of their girls being boyish in their interests.

want to know too, but let every parent here answer it, not just TS and Whitano

My sister used to have screaming matches with her daughter for wanting to wear her favorite hockey Jersey and sweatpants to school. I didn't understand what good that would do... kids go through fads of clothing, but as long as its clean, what does it matter. You cant scream who they want to be out of them... :shrug:

It's not about disliking football... I mean, I don't dislike football any more than I dislike any other hobby or activity, each to their own... what I dislike about football is the idea that "everyone LIKES it" and must follow it / play it / declare that they follow a team and it's "weird" not to. That was genuinely a thing when I was growing up. I successfully pretended to support my local team until I was 13 at which point I admitted that I just wasn't interested in football at all and never had been. It seems that in the teens a lot of people stop needing to conform to the same level, and branch off in their interests, which it's why it's a shame that younger kids feel like they have to "be like the others". That's a wider issue than gender as there are plenty of cross-gender examples of this too... but, there is a huge amount of expected gender conformity of "things boys do" and "things girls do".

But that doesn't mean "being genderless" or that gendered things aren't OK! Like I said, both of my daughters have gravitated towards "girly stuff" in the end without any prompting... it's not about shouting "HEY! No that's a gender stereotype you can't do that!"

Boys can like football if they like football. That's great. It's just wrong for boys to feel like they SHOULD like football if they have no interest in it, and if they don't they're "odd".

No point asking people who think this is a load of old bolloxio though :laugh:

seems a stupid waste of time on your sisters behalf

This thread has been chopped to bits....bit I'm. Interested as a parent to know what the question was.

yeah, but you never know
my parents were obvs traditionalists etc but thinking back I wasn't made to conform to the male gender stereotype that much, they were sort of happy to go along with me rather than expect I'd like football, boys toys etc
So my point is there's always some room for manouvre even if you're not arsed about being "above" the gender stuff

What do girls do when all the boys are on ps2.

Put up posters of the the latest heart-throb on their bedroom wall, they're happy as Larry doing that.

jesus parmy its ps4 now!

and i will tell you what they are doing, they are snapchatting

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Crikey...do they still do resident evil and worms? Does snapchatting involve long nails rattling on a screen accompanied by some ridiculous facial expressions?

I understand the wacky Paloma Faith is doing the same thing ..


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Football’s mind-numbingly boring imo

I think most parents are like this and if you have a boy and a girl they will play with each other toys and no one used to bat an eyelid but now the spotlight is firmly on little Johnny and Mary to see what they could/should/should not be doing, let kids be kids, they have plenty time to identify as whatever down the line

what sport do you love?

TikTok LT it's 2019 :idc:

tik what?

isnt that Chinese?

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