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'How has the form of your child been culturally interpreted?'

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Bittermints · 14/01/2019 13:02

Can't really see it catching on, to be honest.

'How has the form of your child been culturally interpreted?'
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userschmoozer · 14/01/2019 14:18

AspieAndProud Pmsl Grin

VickyEadie · 14/01/2019 14:17

WHY have some people become like this? WHY?

I preferred it when it was just sexism we had to deal with.

AngryAttackKittens · 14/01/2019 14:16

I'd pretend not to speak whatever language they're evangelizing in.

AngryAttackKittens · 14/01/2019 14:16

"You're having twins"

(Narrows eyes) "Is that your cultural interpretation of the fact that there are two heartbeats and also two heads?"

AspieAndProud · 14/01/2019 14:15

My idea of hell is to be stuck next to one of these nuts on a long airplane journey. I’d rub sachets of ketchup on my eyes to fake Ebola.

SittingAround1 · 14/01/2019 14:12

I'd like to see how they'd react to the sonographer at a 20 week scan :
sonographer : you're having a boy
woke person : is that your cultural interpretation of the form of my unborn child ?
sonographer : no that's a willy you can see in the middle of the screen

VickyEadie · 14/01/2019 14:04

Today in "how to baffle and annoy anyone unfortunate enough to interact with you".

Quite. The woke shower and their need to make the simplest things dodgy for the unwoke.

AngryAttackKittens · 14/01/2019 14:04

I thought language was supposed to help us understand the world around us.

Nonsense! The only thing language is for is making people feel affirmed in their gender identity. Who needs to communicate clearly?

Knicknackpaddyflak · 14/01/2019 14:03

I think the answer to that is a firm 'get your head out of your bottom and grow up, dear'.

MrsWinkly · 14/01/2019 14:02

That's unintentionally funny. And Butler never helps anyone make a point, ever.

'How has the form of your child been culturally interpreted?' ......
What a complete mouthful of tippy-toeing nonsense.

If someone asked me that I'd have to respond with a concise 'eh?', cos I wouldn't have a clue what they meant.
I thought language was supposed to help us understand the world around us.

userschmoozer
Give her a few years and a couple of kids and she'll be shoving them in front of the telly with a packet of Wotsits like the rest of us
Grin Exactly. God bless the tellybox and those cheesy snacks.

AngryAttackKittens · 14/01/2019 13:50

I'm trying to imagine this conversation playing out in real life.

"So, Confused Stranger, how has the form of your child been culturally interpreted?"

"...As a child, generally?"

Purplewithgreenspots · 14/01/2019 13:50

It wouldn’t have been a problem for me. Better than her being dressed in pink with all these pink things and ‘oh what a lovely little boy’ just because she was going through the bald phase.
Grr those woke parents in the local paper “oh, we aren’t telling anyone if our baby is male or female”! Yet again dressed really feminine/ really masculine.

FWRLurker · 14/01/2019 13:46

Huh? Why do they even want to ask about the kids sex / gender?

How about “and how’s the baby doing?” “Any issues with the baby?” “How have you been doing since the baby came along”?

Shows that no matter how much they claim they too believe gender stereotypes are damaging they actually love them.

userschmoozer · 14/01/2019 13:46

I see it more as holding up a tin of own brand beans and yelling 'By The Power of Greyskull'' in a crowded supermarket.

Mutakirorikatum · 14/01/2019 13:45

Quite impressed that these people managed to get pregnant in the first place, given that their level of understanding of how babies are made seems to be somewhat below that of Babette Cole’s ‘Mummy Laid An Egg’.

Hmm
AngryAttackKittens · 14/01/2019 13:45

Maybe invoking Butler is like hitting the extra points squares in Scrabble, or owning hotels on Mayfair in Monopoly.

AngryAttackKittens · 14/01/2019 13:41

Today in "how to baffle and annoy anyone unfortunate enough to interact with you".

thehorseandhisboy · 14/01/2019 13:38

Why oh why can't the Woke Brigade ever talk about sex and gender without mentioning Judith Butler?

It's almost as though they haven't really thought any of it through, but know that if they invoke her name is certain quarters they'll be a Pavlovian 'you got this' response.

Beamur · 14/01/2019 13:36

Some parents do take offence at people guessing the sex of their baby incorrectly (but it's often hard to tell)

Beamur · 14/01/2019 13:34

Let me rephrase, sex is important. But it's not important to discuss the sex of your baby. But had anyone asked me, my DD was a baby girl, now a young woman. She agrees.

Frequency · 14/01/2019 13:31

Many mothers would be rightly offended if a well meaning neighbour pootled up to them and said, "So, how is it sleeping?"

AssassinatedBeauty · 14/01/2019 13:28

It's not important but it shouldn't be taboo to ask the sex. It's a fact about the baby, like how much it weighed or when it was born. All totally normal facts about a baby that new parents might like to share. No need to give it any special significance, but no need to deem it unspeakable.

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Bittermints · 14/01/2019 13:28

It is important, actually. Human beings, like all other mammals, come in two kinds, male and female. Which sex class you belong to is important. It's possible to acknowledge that and not blindly accept that girls get brought up one way, boys another.

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SleepingStandingUp · 14/01/2019 13:26

"so, what genitals did yours get?"

Beamur · 14/01/2019 13:26

Why even ask? It's not important...don't impose your own labels people!
Ask if the baby is healthy, how is 'it' sleeping, the usual inane stuff.