Thephoneywar
It's interesting that you're resistant to this. Can I ask why, exactly?
Not all new thinking is bad.
There have been numerous studies, literally hundreds, showing that the way we treat girls and boys has a profound effect on them.
The reinforcement that girls are compliant, weak, decorative and and unscientific are everywhere.
Don't cry like a girl, run like a girl, throw like a girl, etc. Only showing them princesses who need to be rescued in books, etc. Real life examples on here when the boys are asked to move the tables, but not the girls, they will be asked to clear up.
Boys are encouraged to be physically strong, but that includes hiding vulnerability (cry like a girl). They have to be the one doing the rescuing, not the one being rescued.
It's little surprise that the suicide rate for middle-aged men, is the highest of all groups. Their reluctance to accept help/treatment for distress, being a factor.
It's a little surprise that girls, as they grow up have increasingly low self-esteem. Manifesting as self harming and anorexia.
Breaking down gender divisions, is nothing new. Feminists have been advocating it for decades.
It disadvantages both sexes, but in particular girls.
Don't confuse it with this new youth-driven push for 57 different genders. And all the attendant daft pronouns. It's completely separate.
This way of treating kids as kids, not as 1950s stereotypes, is how children were raised in the 60s and 70s. Our parents might have had more delineated gender roles, but the kids didn't.
It was probably a function of a far less intense consumer society, and the fact that kids were outside, not inside.