No gender policing without ninja policing
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Alex Blaze
November 4, 2010 2:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/no_gender_policing_without_ninja_policing.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/no_gender_policing_without_ninja_policing.php)
Here's a great story on gender policing from a mom who took her son to preschool in a costume of Daphne from Scooby Doo:
"Two mothers went wide-eyed and made faces as if they smelled decomp. And I realize that my son is seeing the same thing I am. So I say, "Doesn't he look great?" And Mom A says in disgust, "Did he ask to be that?!" I say that he sure did as Halloween is the time of year that you can be whatever it is that you want to be. They continue with their nosy, probing questions as to how that was an option and didn't I try to talk him out of it. Mom B mostly just stood there in shock and dismay.