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

[Bittermints]

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

Brilliant poem!

The twitter responses are GLORIOUS

Starts off serious (aka bonkers), presumably the normal followers of Hannah..... "did you choose to assign a gender at birth etc"

then comes everyone else.... Catch it before she deletes.

Bad news. She's some sort of academic. I think similar to Sally Hinds

I genuinely thought it was a pisstake

how has the form of your child been culturally interpreted

I physically interpreted it by sneezing when the oldest first did a wee that went up my nose when I was changing his nappy. Because he has a penis.

My husband culturally interpreted by saying bless you and killing himself laughing.

Lol, just imagining how that would land in my local baby group.

‘How has the form of your new baby been culturally interpreted?’

‘The social said they aren’t giving me any more money for it, I’ve already got two.’

Wow, all those people! They completely deny the reality of sex. Fuck.

And of course what they have completely overlooked is that if you have two parents from different cultures, be that Jewish and catholic, french and English, black and white, hearing and non hearing, and so on - using the word ‘culturally’ throws a whole different feeling and interpretation onto that question, that in many cases could be seen at best as crass or insensitive and at worst as incredibly rude and insensitive; and nobody will be thinking that’s ok because they’re being woke about the baby’s sex.

If I’d been asked that I think I’d be tempted to answer a grass eating kitten and see how they reacted...

One of mine was ventouse-assisted (don't ask) and he spent his first week as a Conehead.

I think that might be the wokest thing I have ever seen.

Or it would be, apart from the fact it says 'brainstorm' which I thought became un-pc circa 2005.

Tut tut Hannah. Do better.

What is people's problem with the 'so called sex' of the child?

How the fuck do these people think the child came to be in the first place???!

I had no idea "brainstorming" could be insensitive. Oops. Is it...er... a very mean thing to say?

I think, like others, I would have had the rage if anyone asked me that question about either WittyChild. Ridiculous.

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Mine too!
The health visitor gently told me it was time to take the sock/ hat thing off his head when she came round later in the week. I'd had to keep putting it back on cos he looked like a cross between Beaker from The Muppets and a thermos flask and it made me worry he'd get stuck like that. Then a week later I took him to the doctors as he seemed to have an unusually long bum crack...perfectly normal apparently. Teenage DS doesn't appreciate that story

LOL Threewheeler1!

Oh KatherinaMinola, thank you! On a bad day, you have given me a much needed laugh, ya legend!!

Thank you!

And of course what they have completely overlooked is that if you have two parents from different cultures, be that Jewish and catholic, french and English, black and white, hearing and non hearing, and so on - using the word ‘culturally’ throws a whole different feeling and interpretation onto that question, that in many cases could be seen at best as crass or insensitive and at worst as incredibly rude and insensitive; and nobody will be thinking that’s ok because they’re being woke about the baby’s sex.

Ah, but what do all of those things matter in comparison to the importance of gender? I mean, they identify as being intersectional...

Guess this idiot wouldn’t step back when undoing the nappy of a baby baby then, and it’ll serve her right to get piss in her eye.

*baby boy

Feck even my phone is gone woke and is silencing my use of sex specific words

WokePhone - like a normal phone, but costs more, has multiple features disabled on the grounds that someone finds them upsetting, and calls you a bigot in an annoying robot voice if it overhears you mentioning the fact that you need to buy tampons on your way home.

Ooh! I want a WokePhone right now!!

If anyone had asked me that when DS was a baby I’d probably pat them on the back of the hand and say loudly and slowly ‘is anyone with with you dead? and look around for carer.

I’m not being horrible but it sounds like something someone with a limited grasp would ask.

Oh Threewheeler that made me laugh so much that I earned a baleful stare from the cat for waking her.

Why are they asking this question anyway? The only reason to ask this question would be to go on to apply the “appropriate” form of sex stereotypes to the child (of course, there are no appropriate sex stereotypes).

Because we aren’t talking about the differences due to the genital arrangement here - else “what is their biological sex” would work.

The only thing we can be talking about here are stereotypes. They want to know whether they should treat the child as “tough and rambunctious” or “delicate and quiet”. Because to them, stereotypes are actually ALL that matter. Biology is irrelevant after all.