[Withano]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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 male/female boxes again like this is focusing on stereotypes agin and saying they're either male or female, that's the opposite of progression imo

Depends how its done... everything could be gender neutral really, letting a toddler and child believe their ideas aren’t outside socially constructed norms doesn’t seem like a bad idea at all. They’ll develop their interests long before they work out what social norms are, and they’ll be comfortable in knowing their hobbies are about them personally, and not about the societal standards... which I think is pretty cute.