The John Lewis story about gender neutral kids’ clothes has
trundled its way around the media, yet the key point remains largely ungrasped - huge swathes
of middle class people are bonkers.
Those who think it is essential to be able to tell at a glance whether a child is a girl or a boy may be relieved to hear not everything has changed.
John Lewis is still selling dresses - although they are tagged with the same "Girls and Boys" label as the children's trousers.
Those who think it is essential to be able to tell at a glance whether a child is a girl or a boy may be relieved to hear not everything has changed.
John Lewis is still selling dresses - although they are tagged with the same "Girls and Boys" label as the children's trousers.
Anyone who thinks genes can be trumped by politically
correct clothing strategies is certainly bonkers. What else does one say? It
isn’t likely to do much harm in the long run so maybe John Lewis and their parent
customers see it more as a look at me opportunity than a genuine determination to prepare middle
class kids for a gender neutral future. The world is not gender neutral.
In other words it is little more than virtue signalling
rather than a somewhat unethical experiment on real children. At least one
hopes that’s what it is. From a lesser of two evils point of view.
4 comments:
I have met several parents who are in support of "gender neutral" child-raising, and I found them to be extremely disturbing people. Perhaps that's just my limitations speaking. But I hope you are right about this just being a passing fad. Surely most parents have a better moral compass than marketing and advertising people?
Their senior management should have "frock" weeks and "non frock" weeks as a alternating dress code.
The worrying side to all this is way it has all mushroomed, completely disproportianate to the number of people affected, the combined gay community of LGBETC people is minute in the scale of things but as with all minorities their needs trump everyone elses.
What would any sane parent be doing explaining their five year old girl/boy is neither is more than bonkers, but today any bandwagon it seems is worth getting on.
Sam - back in the late sixties my parents knew a couple who did not believe in correcting the behaviour of their two young daughters. It was fashionable at the time. My parents only invited them round to the house once. That was enough.
Demetrius - good idea.
Wiggia - it seems to be a consequence of pursuing minority groups politically now that working class people are no longer reliable voting fodder.
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