Society is becoming more non-gendered for kids thankfully. They still separate clothes for ‘boys’ and ‘girls,’ but toys are no longer separated that way. My daughter didn’t even understand the concept until she started going to antique malls with us and I would run into things like GI Joe figures and had to explain the whole idea of “GI Joe is for boys, Barbie is for girls” that was forced on me by society in the 80s.
There was a boy in my elementary school who had a Cabbage Patch Kid and got made fun of for it. Hopefully that, at least, is becoming less of an issue.
I know that one of my daughter’s close friends, who is trans, still gets a lot bullying, but he’s also in middle school, so anyone not “normal” is bullied. I’m not sure if it’s bigotry or just standard middle schoolers being assholes.
This is kind of off-topic, and I’m seemingly in the minority here, but can we stop shoving the word “rule” into every single post title? Am I the only one that finds this annoying? This is a great community, but as I scroll lemmy, I subconsciously read all post titles somewhere deep in my brain. It’s so passive that I don’t even realize I’m doing it—until I come across seemingly any 196 post and the word “rule” shoehorned into the…middle of a word is like a record scratch deep in my brain stem.
I know this is a me problem, but dammit if it doesn’t bug me. Am I alone? (And yes, I’m prepared to get a bunch of “well then get over it or leave” replies. So, let me have ‘em.)
One of the subreddits rules was “don’t forget the rule”, so I believe it actually was a rule. I also can’t recall ever seeing a post that didn’t have rule in the title
Oh, must’ve misremembered. Not my most active sub anyway tbh. Sincerely don’t remember ever seeing a post without rule in the title though, so it felt like an actual rule.
Yes. Very much so. Similar process I went through, I never found it funny, but I did get used to it…and then it started bugging me. Especially when when it’s like “Awa-r(ul)e-ness” or any shit like that. It’s not clever, it’s just stupid.
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