What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?

Culture War                                    News From the Front What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? “ This one is parody The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates. Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).” They explained that Alex had recently become inconsolable about his parents’ ban on wearing dresses beyond dress-up time. After consulting their pediatrician, a psychologist and parents of other gender- [blah blah fkng-blah] What's so bad about wanting to fondle the breasts of the girl who sits next to you in Math? What's so wrong about wanting to smear feces on your head to attract green flies, which shimmering  iridescence please you? What's so bad about wanting to put dog turds on your peanut butter sandwich? What's so bad about not wanting to say the Pledge of Allegiance? Nothing.  Unless you talk about those desires, or act on them, and are willing to accept the ridicule.   Because, laws aside,  it's abnormal  behavior;  unacceptable by social norms. Social norms are  necessary in any society; guidelines and silent agreements which allow lots of people to live together in some  harmony.    Accommodating people like Alex, and certainly Alex's parent, means imposing on everyone a requirement to accept their behavior as being perfectly normal, or face a political punishment.  We call this political correctness, and it's a cancer.   PC makes people want to throw other people who work for the New York Times down a volcano.  Someday, given the opportunity, they probably will. ”