When the push comes to the shove...

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quirrelquarrel · 13/05/2011 16:25

Would you call your little boy a "girl's" name? Dress him in skirts, etc, to hell with the lingering stares and well meant nosy advice?

www.digitaljournal.com/article/306649

A schoolboy called Chris Whitehead- fantastic!
But I wish he was protesting about something else than that.

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PrinceHumperdink · 14/05/2011 12:36

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quirrelquarrel · 13/05/2011 20:39

I always think getting children to sign bits of paper is so unnecessary- esp. for things like that.

As if it's going to have a lasting impact, and it treats things far more seriously than they need to be treated. A rap on the fingers or a quiet "I'm disappointed in you" should do the trick, if the kid is raised well in the first place.

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HaughtyChuckle · 13/05/2011 18:36

I saw that on TWS good on him!

there was a boy at our school who came one day in a skirt, & make up etc , the head flipped and made him sign a piece of paper o never do it again

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quirrelquarrel · 13/05/2011 18:05

But change starts with change!

If we all joined in, he could have started a revolution!

Btw- I like the new M&M ad- a man (getting beaten up) making a snack for a woman! Although there'll be cynics who say that it shows it's the woman's natural job etc...but still.

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queenofthecapitalwasteland · 13/05/2011 17:01

I saw that on the BBC and was so impressed with him, it takes a lot for a little boy for dress in a cissy girly way, for any reason. He sounds like a mature, resourceful boy and hopefully a future feminist.

Straight2Extremes · 13/05/2011 16:49

Well doing so would kind of make their life a misery, it's one thing to choose something like Chris did but to force it on them is a little different. He also lives in a village I would not advise any boy to do that in a city to do that I doubt he would make it to school unharmed :(

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