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Originally Posted by Withano

Well tbf, not many parents would need to make a statement about it because nobody cares what sarah from the nail salon does with her kids. We all only care now because this one is famous enough for a media outlet to report on something that a lot of parents already do.

Well, I've seen stories about non celebrities doing this aswell and it gets a similar reaction.

My point is that this is potentially damaging to how much ground we've gained trying to get rid of these gender stereotypes so it seems like a step backwards to me. Like, I'll give you an example, when I was in secondary school in the 90's, there was 2 boys in the Home Ec class. My son is 14 and he chose Home Ec as one of his options as did more than half the other boys in his year and it was perfectly normal where as before it was a "girls subject" That's a step forward imo, putting gender in strict male/female boxes again like this is focusing on stereotypes again and saying they're either male or female, that's the opposite of progression imo