Thursday 2 May 2013

Gender Neutrality - "What's More Harmful to Kids?"

That's the question asked by blogger Lindy West at Jezebel:
What's more harmful to kids—being awkwardly micromanaged by adults, or being warped by lifetimes of gender normativity?
What is Lindy talking about? Well, news is buzzing this week about Sweden's "gender-neutral" policies after the country officially added its "gender-neutral" pronoun, Hen, to the country's national encyclopedia.  HuffPoexplains that bit:
The word is a gender-neutral pronoun that can be applied to objects and people who don't wish to specifically identify as male or female, and it is now an official third pronoun in Swedish.
But Sweden's obsession with gender-neutrality doesn't stop at just semantics. It is exercised even in terms of classroom policies, and at the lowest level. That's what Lindy West is talking about when she asks "what's more harmful to kids?"

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