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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (27331)	12/27/1998 7:47:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Blue, I realize that most boys are naturally pretty aggressive. My child was a baby when all of those drivel-filled books came out, written by feminists who argued that boys and girls were the same inside, but were just SOCIALIZED to be different. Well, my daughter demanded a play purse, an ironing board, and had a well developed shoe fetish which she indulged with wild abandon from the age of about eleven months. She also announced that she wanted all her clothes to be pink! At the same time, in the park sandbox the boy babies would shoot at each other with pretzel sticks, and use empty soda cans to make tracks like little race cars, going VROOM!!!!!!!!! What I meant is that there are many, many healthy ways to channel the natural energy of young boys in productive ways. I think it is a disservice to glamorize professional sports the way we have, leaving the players with so many injuries that they live the rest of their lives in arthritic pain, and causing young boys to live in a sports fantasy instead of paying attention to academics. I think the glorification of name-brand merchandise, where underprivileged children in dysfunctional inner city neighborhoods need it so badly as status symbols that they will hurt and kill for it, is a symbol of a society that has lost touch with its basic values. I'm sure your boys are lovely, normal children. Do you think men who still bear strong European influence are more dominant than our totally domesticated American melting pot varieties? My Irish husband can be fairly dominant, also, and I am sure it is a cultural remnant.