Posted in children, gender, parenting, tagged children, culture, gender myths, gender relationships, gender roles, gender stereotypes, parenting, parents, sexism on 25 August 2009|
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I’m not sure if I have enough of a readership to get a decent number of comments on this thread, but I’m going to try, as I think that this post is one that will benefit far more from comments than from whatever I might post.
My mother – who is pretty good about not sending forwards – sent me a forward with the text below.
I’m an atheist, and I was a bit irritated by the title and the first four questions. I don’t like the idea that questions like this reinforce the story that a god made people. Although that only really matters if this question & answer set up is real – I always doubt these things.
However, I left in the irritating title & first four questions for the sake of completeness, and also because I actually quite like the idea of people made out of string! But maybe that’s just me?
I’ll let you read it before I subject you to any more of my own thoughts (the emphasis is all mine, though):
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