I've talked about my ex on KTT since 2015

No I do want to be with her, always have. I thought it was apparent that I simp for her daily.

Well if you gon' be involved you gotta understand the kid wanting to experiment and be a kid comes with that.

but you said the moms bought him the dress anyways. I just hope you're not as controlling in other aspects of this kid's life.

r/ThisHappened

you're literally doing that by inferring a boy shouldn't wear a dress that they like because of heteronormative gender norms/roles so I don't see your point.

Ive never even seen you before in KTT. And what you talking about your ex gotta do with you making s*** up?

yall are naive as f*** lol

how about i'll be real about what wearing a dress looks like to other people and when he's of the age to begin getting romantically involved with people (12, 13-16) and stand on his own sexuality, i'll let him make that decision on his own and not just go with his every impulse when he's 4-7 years old to turn out to be a completely different person 10 years later

virtue signal try hards lol

EDIT: @Haseul quoted me then deleted lol

And to answer this thread, y’all need to stop patting yourselves on the back for following current societal norms thinking you’re making some grand statement or some s***.

Younger children boy and girl in the US used to actually wear dresses and long styled hair until society decided before WW1 they wanted to change that and allocate the blue color for the boy gender and pink for the girl gender.

LMAO

Actually who cares, believe or don't

Source

smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/?c=y&page=1

And a pic of FDR for good measure (left pic):

I've already explained this a***ogy. I'm not referring to the impact of those things but rather how the parents think about them. In both cases, the child sees the thing through innocents eyes. He just wants the gun to be a cop, someone from star wars, or some other character he saw just like he wants the dress to look like the frozen girl. The parent however sees the negative things associated with guns and doesn't want the child to associate those things with fun and make them a game. This is the same way the parent sees the dress, they don't want the kid to associate crossdressing/transgendered people with fun and make them think its a joke.

because a gun kills people.

crossdressing itself has never killed anyone.

Once again, bad a***ogy.

This isn't really true. When a parent tells a child no, the child does not associate that the product but rather with the parents. When a parent tells there child no to a chocolate bar because they don't want them to get fat the kid doesn't start developing a hatred of chocolate or fat people. Instead, he gets upset with his parents because that's who he associated the incident with.

Again, I'm not referring to the impact of the two. If you look earlier in this thread, people were saying OP was wrong because the kid didn't know he was crossdressing. This was my argument against that.

the kid is just being a kid and sees it as just something cool to wear.

the concept of crossdressing and the shame that automatically comes with that don't exist. When you refuse a child to express themselves in however they want those kind of limitations stay with them. Parents putting early boundaries on their child based on their own implicit biases does leave a mark.

Saying no to an article of clothing is not the same as telling a child no to say....jumping off a building or buying something that can actually be seen as harmful.

I mean that's basic psychology but what do I know

One of the greatest hip hop album covers of the last decade.