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You'll Stay In Time Out Until You Stop Behaving Like Yourself, Young Man... Er, Person
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Here's a pre-school in Sweden where -- get ready for some good old fashioned What Are These People Doing To Our Kids? outrage -- they're getting rid of gender-based pronouns and calling everyone "friends" instead of "him" and "her." They also got rid of traditional story books with male and female "stereotypes" and replaced them with stories about single parents, adopted children, and same-sex couples. This is not a "Saturday Night Live" sketch. Everybody gets to play with anatomically correct toys, but if there are no gender roles, what anatomy are we talking about? This is taxpayer-funded, by the way, because the government is interested in wiping out gender distinctions. Here's the thing: Boys and girls ARE different. That's not to say that one is better than the other, but that there ARE differences. Can you teach someone to go against their nature and instincts because you want him or her -- sorry, those are gender pronouns -- to be neuter? And if you say that you can't use therapy or education to make a gay person straight -- and, really, you can't -- then can you use the same technique to make a boy more feminine and a girl more masculine so they're alike? (New York Times)
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