As a child, all you really did was follow your parents, but when you started to make you own choices, and they weren’t the normal wants of your gender, did your parents attitude change? Americans have a very warped view on children, claiming that they can’t make they’re own choices unless it’s the usual for their gender. Let’s say you have a son, and you go clothes shopping with him. He looks and finds a skirt he likes. What would you do? How do you think other parents would react to that?

First off lets look on how society sees girls on this topic of gender roles. For one color is a great controversy, most people believe that pink is a feminine color. No, it’s a color, it doesn’t have a gender. You don’t go marking your chair as a girl now do you? Let’s say you go out and your daughter chooses a shirt that comes in different shades of pink, blue, and orange. they choose pink, because they like that color.  If you say which shade of pink they want, stop. That the problem. If a girl dresses in a shirt and pants, and likes things people consider “masculine”, they’re seen as cool and attractive. “Oh you like trucks? That’s cute.” is what society thinks of that. For males, liking feminine things is a different story.

Society sees boys as the dominate gender, or the “always in control” gender. Like I said before, it’s just a word, you don’t call your chair Jenny. If you do it’s alright, I call my phone Cameron. Society tells boys “not to cry”, or “men don’t cry”. What we don’t tell them is “don’t make anyone cry”, or “it’s alright, I’m here for you”. If a boy wants to wear a skirt, they’re shamed for it and called “creepy”, even though they’ve never shown one ounce of being creepy towards anyone. Parents force their child to be what they want, and those wants could totally ignore a child’s wants/needs. A child has they’re own mind, just because they’re mind chooses something different that yours doesn’t mean you have the right to tell them no. You don’t have the right to puppet your child, you're not a puppeteer.

What happens in the area that they take it to wanting to change their gender? That’s a term called transgender, which is generally transforming to a different gender. So say you're a boy that wants to be a girl, that means your a transgender girl. Speaking of transgender girls, ever heard of that girl named Leelah Alcorn? She’s a transgender girl, who committed suicide a few weeks ago from this post date. Why? Her parents refused to use female pronouns (she, her, etc.), and called her confused because of her choice. They  didn’t support her, and that’s what she said made her want to commit suicide. After that, although, her parents took it to a whole other level. They deleted Leelah’s suicide note off of her tumblr, and claimed it “wasn’t their fault.”. So I want you to repeat one thing, and I want you all to remember it. Don’t be your child’s first bully. Accept who they are and don’t question it. They have their own mind, and they can choose whatever they want.

In the end, gender roles aren’t really good, but if you insist this is wrong why not go find a chair and classify it as male/female based on appearance. Have a hoot with that.