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It's a boy! And he's five. Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, have spent half the decade concealing the gender of their son, Sasha.
"I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping," Laxton said in an interview with the Cambridge News. "Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes?"
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Laxton, a UK-based web editor, and her partner, Cooper, decided to keep Sasha's sex a secret when he was still in the womb. The birth announcement stated the gender-neutral name of their child, but skipped the big reveal. Up until recently, the couple only told a few close friends and family members that Sasha was a boy and managed to keep the rest of the world in the dark. But now that he's starting school the secret's out.
For years, Becks has been referring to her child, the youngest of three, as "the infant" on her personal blog. But guarding the public from her son's gender was only part of her quest to let her kid just be a kid.
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/couple-finally-reveals-childs-gender-five-years-birth-180300388.html
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Skull shirt not ok... pink swimsuit ok. Yeah that sounds like a nice balanced gender neutral environment. That and since when has Sasha been gender neutral?
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you need a license to catch a fish or drive a car but to birth a human child you don't need s***
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Steelwind_Oo posted:
Skull shirt not ok... pink swimsuit ok. Yeah that sounds like a nice balanced gender neutral environment. That and since when has Sasha been gender neutral?
Sasha is a relatively common male name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_(name)
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in eastern europe its a boys name, in us its a girls name.
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I stand corrected, thanks.
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The parts of stories people fixate on is fascinating. ...insane parents ramblings..blah, blah...SASHA ....sterotypes....blah, blah.
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Fallen_daemon posted:
Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
Wow, skulls are not ok but pink sparkly is?
My girls wear skull print shirts. And cargo pants. Cause, you know...they make them for girls nowadays too.
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Gaevren posted:
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Sasha dresses in clothes he likes -- be it a hand-me-downs from his sister or his brother. The big no-no's are hyper-masculine outfits like skull-print shirts and cargo pants. In one photo, sent to friends and family, Sasha's dressed in a shiny pink girl's swimsuit. "Children like sparkly things," says Beck. "And if someone thought Sasha was a girl because he was wearing a pink swimming costume, then what effect would that have? "
Wow, skulls are not ok but pink sparkly is?
My girls wear skull print shirts. And cargo pants. Cause, you know...they make them for girls nowadays too.
Twilight in teens and Monster High in elementary school kids has made gothic wear mainstream and socially accepted.
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i don't see how this makes them crazy bat siht parents. they're being weird and not neutral so much as forcing him to be ok with everything that is girly, except barbie. i fail to see how cargo pants are hyper masculine. 
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Caoilin posted:
i don't see how this makes them crazy bat siht parents. they're being weird and not neutral so much as forcing him to be ok with everything that is girly, except barbie. i fail to see how cargo pants are hyper masculine.
oh god, I wear cargo pants and skull shirts.... I'm turning into a man!
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Jezza_Belle posted:
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i don't see how this makes them crazy bat siht parents. they're being weird and not neutral so much as forcing him to be ok with everything that is girly, except barbie. i fail to see how cargo pants are hyper masculine.
oh god, I wear cargo pants and skull shirts.... I'm turning into a man!
 
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FineYoungCannibals posted:
you need a license to catch a fish or drive a car but to birth a human child you don't need s***
Well you need something. And someone else needs something. If licenses are harder to get than that, then we've got some real primitive people running around.
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Cargo pants are hyper masculine?
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Caoilin posted:
i don't see how this makes them crazy bat siht parents. they're being weird and not neutral so much as forcing him to be ok with everything that is girly, except barbie. i fail to see how cargo pants are hyper masculine.
And I fail to see how a sparkly pink swimsuit isn't girly! Geesh these parents went far to one side and this kid is gonna be messed up later. Just you wait MSS predicted it first this kid will commit his first murder at 13.
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there's actually a documented case of a baby x that was never told what gender it was. like even through school it was kept a secret and it wasn't allowed to learn about anatomy and isht and was made to use the admin building staff bathrooms because it couldn't know if it was a boy or girl. i have no idea how long that went on because the last time i read about it, in the 90s, it was in a text book and only talked about it through elementary school. i'd guess through the age where your physical features change enough that everyone will know what gender you are. if i wasn't a million kinds of lazy right now, i'd try to find it. it was interesting and at the time, i thought ridiculously stupid. i forget what the purpose was.
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Even still Cao I was raised by lesbian parents (one my birth mother) and have an older sister. I learned a lot about things I really didn't care about. But my parents tried to raise me as a personal who didn't feat difference be it sex, race, or choices in life.
But seriously skull shirts vs shiney swim suit!? If anything a choice between a plain pair of swim trunks with a shirt and a plain swimsuit and i'd be ok. They steered their own attempt avert social gender balance to make their son more alike to a woman.
I won't lie i'm a sensitive man, I take really good care of my body with hygiene, and have more emotion than i'd like to admit. I have my mom and her partner to thank for that. But they never lied to me I never had to guess at anything, and suddenly realize that I am man or female.
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i'm not disagreeing with you. they're pushing the kid completely towards girl items. like beyond completely. they have all but cut his penis off from everything that article has said.
now, i do completely agree with the sort of point they're trying to make, despite going about it the wrong way. children should not be forced into these super structured rules of boys are blue and get cars and gun weilding action figures while girls are pink and get frilly princess dolls and ponies and NOTHING IN BETWEEN! bullsiht. kids should be encouraged to pick what toys they want, regardless of what isle it comes from. esp since there's such a harsh double standard in this. little girls can wear boy clothing and play with "boy" toys and all of that w/o anyone even batting an eye. the second a little boy does the same with girl stuff, it's suddenly terrible and how could you let your child do such a thing?! (we experienced this with my nephew a bit because he was a flaming homo for a few years.) it's completely ridiculous.
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poor kid
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