[swinearefine]

I think the problem is less that parents forcing their kids to do gender-specific things, and more that kids are more inclined to perform these gender-specific things because since birth they've had it instilled in their minds that they are a certain gender, they are different from the other gender, that there is a set of rules for this gender that everyone follows, and that to be accepted in society you follow these rules. There's usually no need to force a girl to wear make-up, for example, because she's known since a very young age that that's what a girl does and that to be accepted she would have to do it.