So far this semester we have talked about several topics that I have found very interesting to me. The most interesting topic was talking about gender being stereotyped and how people raise their children. For me personally, I know nothing about parenthood. I am only 23 years old and don't plan on having kids for at least another couple of years. Growing up I have always seen myself as a boy and since I was born a boy, my parents taught me all the little things that little boys learn. I was taught to not cry, not play with dolls, go play in the mud, and other stereotypical instances. After a specific reading one day, I thought about it, what if my parents just let me grow up and didn't teach me to be a girl or boy? Would I have grown up like X? Now X was a little human being who had no specified gender. He was allowed to grow up with aspects of each gender and the parents taught the child that that was okay to not be specified. That child grew up to be a perfect child who surpassed all expectation of a normal child.
As I write this blog, I just want to ask one thing, what is your opinion on this next question? If the world threw gender out the window and allowed a child to grow up and find out on its own what he or she wanted to be, then how would the world be as a whole? For better or worse? Personally I believe that if every child turned out like X, then this world would be better off as a whole.
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