Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Front page flakes

A bizarro tale about two flaky parents who want to raise their child gender neutrally was the lead story on the front page of today's Post:
... A Toronto couple says it is trying to raise a genderless child, refusing to reveal baby Storm’s sex to encourage a more neutral approach to the infant.
Hiding the four-month-old’s sex from the outside world is a “tribute to freedom and choice” that they hope will let Storm grow up unfettered by the values of others, Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have been quoted as saying. [Typical, unrealistic progressive nuttery - unwilling to accept the laws of nature and convinced that social engineering will bring their utopia.]
From Barbara Kay:

Close observers ... are especially troubled that Storm’s two brothers have been co-opted into collusion with the scheme and, well-rehearsed, assiduously self-monitor their own discourse about “Z,” the neutral replacement for “he” or “she.” [Neither "he" nor "she" but "Zed"?]

... Free will has its limitations. One such limitation is human biology. The denial of biological reality by highly educated, but humanly naive “progressives” — and their choice to privilege the “world” over the needs and rights of their own children — speaks more to their narcissism than to their idealism. [I'd say 'over-educated' - ie. educated beyond their capacity to understand.]
... This misguided couple needs intervention before their adult folie à deux becomes a children’s tragedy à trois.
Interesting, but front page?

4 comments:

Alain said...

I assume that the child has a valid birth certificate where the sex of the child must be indicated, so I am unsure what game the parents are playing. They are indeed a sad case believing that biology is a social construct, and what they are doing to their children borders on child abuse in my opinion. I am still reluctant to advocate state intervention or the removal of the children, being a firm supporter of parental rights over state rights.

Frances said...

Gender is to be celebrated, not hidden. Acknowledging that does not mean one is thereby hampering the child's development. Rather, a wise parent realizes that gender is an integral part of the child and seeks to incorporate the proper expression of same into the child's upbringing.

L said...

The kid will straighten out his/her parents in a few years as soon as he/she figures out whether or not he/she has a weenie or not.

JR said...

Yup, these 'liberal' (ie nitwit) parents are in denial of biological reality and playing silly-bugger with their child's life.

L, unfortunately, with the confusion the parents are sowing, if or when he/she figures out which gender he/she is he/she may well be screwed up enough to want to be the other and have his weenie lopped off or, otherwise, added.