Dr. Phil on Those 'Confusing' Girly Toys

[Shana A]

Dr. Phil on Those 'Confusing' Girly Toys
Filed by: Alex Blaze
April 13, 2011 6:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/dr_phil_on_those_confusing_girly_toys.php#more

A couple months ago an item appeared on Dr. Phil McGraw's website where he told a mother to take away girl toys from her son because they're "confusing" him. The Advocate interviewed McGraw about that advice:

    You know, it's interesting to me that somebody would even consider that in that light. If you understand that your sexual orientation is a hard-wired genetic DNA reality and not a learned lifestyle, then what toys you play with is not going to determine whether you're straight or gay, you're not going to take a child that is hard-wired to be gay and give him G.I. Joe and so he becomes straight, and you're not going to give a kid a Barbie and so he becomes gay. What I said to the parents at the time, you don't like the toys he's playing with, take them away from him and give him some different toys. You're the parent, be a parent.

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He says (1) she was uncomfortable because her son was being "confused" by girl toys, and (2) sexuality is hard-wired so it won't be affected by toys. And now, (3) gender is a social construct and there are no such thing as girl toys or boy toys:

[spacial]

Yet another fraud, claiming medcal qualifications allow him to make definative prounancements on what are social, (ie, political), issues.

At the risk of offending some by using the n word again. This is nazism. An attempt to destroy political debate, based upon preverted science.

While medicine restricts itself to dealing with individual problems, it has credability.

[Janet_Girl]

Dr. Fool = Jerry Springer.  Same thing.  After ratings.  Too bad some less intelligent people think he is a real doctor.