re MN campaigns

[coco44]

Ok well I'll probably get deleted but I just want to vent about some of the MN campaigns, which I find are very dogmatic and partial.
Firstly 'Pink stinks' .WEll I am all for letting all children have access to pink, blue, orange purple, dolls, tractors, prams , dinosaurs.But I don't think all children are blank slates.Female animals usually have different roles and tempeaments to males.Why shouldn't girls be allowed and encouraged to be pink and sparkly and feminine if that is what they want! why should they have to deny their nurturing instincts? But 'pink stinks' is just so scathing and dismisssive of what lots (not all) girls are!

secondly the 'we believe you' campaign.This really scares me Women should undoubtedly be always encouraged to tell and be listened to .But statistically well over half of us are parents of boys.
a woman could falsely accuse one of your sons ( or your DH) wreck their career, marriage, reputation, life , and everyone should just automatically believe the worst of your DC because he is a male.To hell with de, judge and jury! I think and hope the campaign is well meaning but terribly worded.A Fraisier Crane-esque 'WE are listening' would have been so much less sinister

Let girls be girls.More pontificating.You are not going to dress your own pre-teen dds in boob tubes and stillettos (and neither am I).But Stop imposing your views on others!!

Ok

coco a huge percentage of rapes don't get prosecuted. To be honest, we probably need more belief.

Go do some research coco and it will become clear to you why you are talking out of your arse.

YABU

How very daily mail of you OP

Yes. YABU.

I think you have a good point. Campaigns telling us how we should think are worrying although as Gluezilla says - there is a lot in there and it is late.

I am the mother of a son though; a rather naive boy who was regularly set up and bullied by being made a fool of in school - especially by girls. I am also the mother of a DD.

Beyond

YABFU OP.

Girls are not born naturally loving pink. 100 years ago pink was considered a boy's colour and pale blue a girls' colour.

I would lay pretty heavy money on female animals not being attracted to pink sparkly things. Seriously, OP, I am willing to set up a proper experiment if you give me a thousand pounds if I'm right. All I need is a couple of female ocelots and a lioness. Oh, and some pink, sparkly tat from the Pound Shop.

2/10

Terrypratchett - are you going to repeat the experiment by offering dinky cars and action men to the ocelots and lionesses?

Hmm, that's a good question. I shall offer a range of cars and dolls in various stages of glitter and pink. I possibly need some lions and male ocelots for a control group. It's going to be expensive in wildlife. Might be cheaper with ferrets and donkeys.

How do you titillate an ocelot?

oscillate it's tits a lot.

Pink Stinks isn't a MN campaign.

Oh dear

Giyadas I hope you realise that it is people like you who devalue decent ocelot based science. Shame on you. Ocelots are sad. Sad

Regarding rape and our sons. You think that the issue is our sons being at risk of false accusation - that's the issue to you?

Well done OP. Start a thread with a bitchplop then ignore replies. Poor behaviour imo. Very poor.

Some of us think that debunking rape myths protects our sons too.

As for the rest... Missing. The. Point.

Utterly ridiculous, OP.

1. Do you believe that pink is an instinct?
2. You have completely missed the point.

You have posted some nice stuff about disability on another thread too...you are a contraversial wee thing aren't you.