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Tumbler Dec 26 2014

arcanebarrage: aconnormanning: maneth985: fallen-angel-with-a-shotgun: dajo42: if you dont have me on facebook you are probably not missing out on any posts but the comment section is important too lmao I went to the Renaissance faire dressed as a warrior.  I had a real sword with me, too.  I was standing (in character) next to a sword-fighting ring, where kids of all ages got the chance to pick up a sword and challenge the champion.  Some woman walks by, with her little girl.  The girl starts walking towards the ring, saying she wants to fight.  But the mom pulled her away hella sharply, and was like, “That’s for boys.”  You don’t want to be a BOY, do you?”    And the girl looked around and saw me.  I think she thought I was a boy; I had my hair in a ponytail, and was wearing a hood.  So she comes up to me and asks me, “Do you think girls can be fighters, too?”  And her mom looks like she’s silently gloating.  Like she thinks I’m going to say no.  So I take off my hood, untie my hair so that it flows freely, and kneel before her.  And I’m like, “Milady, anyone can be a fighter.”  I swear, the look on that mother’s face made my day. This post was good but then it got better Man I normally cringe and guffaw at any usage of ‘milady’ but that girl’s response made me fistpump. I’m normally very “pfft” at Tumblr’s ‘no gender norms for kids!!!11’ posts because 90% of the people making them aren’t caretakers of children and thus really can only speculate as outsiders — not that they’re wrong but they usually just don’t have the day-to-day experience that a parent/caretaker sibling or relative/nanny/babysitter might have. But I can confirm, having just wandered into that day-to-day experience, that gender stratifications like this are super pervasive even today in typically liberal/progressive parts of the United States. And they start early, too, often before the kid’s even squirted out into the world. Baby registries were not as gender-neutral friendly as I expected. I get weird looks for shopping around the boy’s clothing section in Target — one lady even gave me the flat-brow scowl when I came to browse the same boy’s onesie rack as her while pushing my purple-and-polkadot-clad daughter along in her stroller. Like, ‘how dare u approach dis rack of garments!!1 This is for BOYS!!’ Honey, those grey hoodies are warm as shit and it’s fixing to get COLD here around the Bay. I don’t give a fuck if they say ‘Daddy’s Little Champ’ on them, either. PLUS THEY ARE ON SALE, MOVE OVER WOMAN.  It’s not really worth getting worked up about, but it’s definitely something you want to consider before you decide to churn out your own wee bairns into the world. 

arcanebarrage:

aconnormanning:

maneth985:

fallen-angel-with-a-shotgun:

dajo42:

if you dont have me on facebook you are probably not missing out on any posts but the comment section is important too lmao

I went to the Renaissance faire dressed as a warrior.  I had a real sword with me, too.  I was standing (in character) next to a sword-fighting ring, where kids of all ages got the chance to pick up a sword and challenge the champion.  Some woman walks by, with her little girl.  The girl starts walking towards the ring, saying she wants to fight.  But the mom pulled her away hella sharply, and was like, “That’s for boys.”  You don’t want to be a BOY, do you?”    And the girl looked around and saw me.  I think she thought I was a boy; I had my hair in a ponytail, and was wearing a hood.  So she comes up to me and asks me, “Do you think girls can be fighters, too?”  And her mom looks like she’s silently gloating.  Like she thinks I’m going to say no.  So I take off my hood, untie my hair so that it flows freely, and kneel before her.  And I’m like, “Milady, anyone can be a fighter.”  I swear, the look on that mother’s face made my day.

This post was good but then it got better

Man I normally cringe and guffaw at any usage of ‘milady’ but that girl’s response made me fistpump.

I’m normally very “pfft” at Tumblr’s ‘no gender norms for kids!!!11’ posts because 90% of the people making them aren’t caretakers of children and thus really can only speculate as outsiders — not that they’re wrong but they usually just don’t have the day-to-day experience that a parent/caretaker sibling or relative/nanny/babysitter might have. But I can confirm, having just wandered into that day-to-day experience, that gender stratifications like this are super pervasive even today in typically liberal/progressive parts of the United States. And they start early, too, often before the kid’s even squirted out into the world. Baby registries were not as gender-neutral friendly as I expected. I get weird looks for shopping around the boy’s clothing section in Target — one lady even gave me the flat-brow scowl when I came to browse the same boy’s onesie rack as her while pushing my purple-and-polkadot-clad daughter along in her stroller. Like, ‘how dare u approach dis rack of garments!!1 This is for BOYS!!’ Honey, those grey hoodies are warm as shit and it’s fixing to get COLD here around the Bay. I don’t give a fuck if they say ‘Daddy’s Little Champ’ on them, either. PLUS THEY ARE ON SALE, MOVE OVER WOMAN.

It’s not really worth getting worked up about, but it’s definitely something you want to consider before you decide to churn out your own wee bairns into the world.

(via shad0ww0rdpain)