I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can’t even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what’s between their legs.

  • Silvally@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I would argue everything. But I’ll focus on two things that immediately sprung to mind which people here have not yet mentioned:

    Children’s toys. So long as the toy is safe to play with, it should not matter what toy your child plays with. This especially bothers me since it’s often people’s very first experience with being unnecessarily gendered and being othered from their peers.

    Products for pets. Something like “pink is a colour for girls” is entirely a human social construct, and animals have 0 comprehension of this. I’ve heard stories of people getting admonished by complete strangers for putting pink collars on their male dogs.

    Edit: Removing my last paragraph since it was off-topic.

    • Natori@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Spent so much cognitive effort making sure my kids didn’t feel hamstrung by gender roles. Wound up with two kids who identify at least partly as non-binary, and have chosen their roles as much on their own as I think they can reasonably do.

      Of course both of them, hilariously, wound up choosing incredibly typical gender-aligned stuff. The “amab” NB kid loves machines, Lego, spaceships, engineering, explosions, and anything STEM. The “afab” NB kid loves puppies, pink stuff, flowers, dresses, helping with household chores, cooking, and scorpions. Typical girl stuff.

      Not ascribing any deeper meanings. I just think it’s cute and funny.