My favorite color is green, and bacon is the love of my life. I have a "zombie attack" nerf gun, and I love any and every sport. I'm in a fantasy football league, and the majority of my friends are boys. I'm overly blunt, loud, and on the rare occasion I'm upset, it's not pretty.
But, I'm a girl. I love to shop at Victoria's Secret and get my nails done.
I drink cheap white wine and the left side of my room is lined with sparkling Christmas lights. A quick coat of mascara is my best friend, and I'm a sucker for the clearance rack at just about every store in the mall.
I read an article last week titled "PLEASE, Stop Throwing Gender Reveal Parties For Your Kid," and to be honest, it made me laugh pretty damn hard. I've watched our culture slowly but surely change the definition of gender, but this article took it just one hilarious step further.
The author requested that parents-to-be stop celebrating the gender of their unborn baby through reveal parties, because "Subjecting gender stereotyped objects onto children can also lead to damaging behavioral expectations of our children."
Wait, what? The baby isn't even born yet!
Something so innocent as a gender reveal party is now being analyzed and judged by the liberal leftists of our increasingly sensitive culture.
Shocker.
It's actually quite funny that people now think that can defy biology and demand that others do the same.
I've heard argument after argument that fights against the meanings of sex and gender. "Sex is just a reproductive organ," they say. "Gender is who you want to be."
What happened to the two being the same? Google defines them as synonyms, so why don't we?
Biology is real. Scientifically speaking, there are two sexes: male and female.
In rare cases, babies are born with both male and female sex organs, but it is impossible for both to function fully and together. I don't care if you have a vagina but want to be a boy. You're a girl. I don't care if you don't want to be either gender at all. You're male or female. Period. That's not an opinion, that's factual biology.
Read the internet. Read science, for goodness sake.
You're still a male, biologically, no matter how much estrogen you take.
You're still a female, biologically, regardless of breast removal and hormonally induced facial hair. You still have the chromosomes in your body that define who you truly are, regardless of who you think you can be. DNA doesn't change.
Your child might like pink instead of blue or football more than the mall, but ultimately, they are who they were from the moment their sex chromosome was created.
I'm not going to lie and say that men and women don't have issues due to societal stereotypes. But what I do know is that inviting friends and family over to announce the sex of your baby is not going to make that child any worse off.
I'm all for being your own person. Be unique, because no two people are the same.
But what I'm not all for is the idea that parents should not gender stereotype children before they are born. Children are young, inexperienced, and lacking in wisdom.
Why the hell would we let them choose what gender they want to be? It's only going to lead to confusion, exclusion, and psychological issues. If anything, it is a parent's job to make sure that their child does conform to their sex, because deying biology never works.
The leftists blame us for trying to "control" society, but what I have noticed pretty quickly is that they are the ones trying to hold control.
They refuse to let any belief other than their own be accepted.
They cry, protest, tweet, and write articles demanding that parents stop throwing gender reveal parties. They'll believe science when it lines up with what they want, but otherwise, science is wrong, they say.
At first, I was frustrated. Now, I'm just humored, and I look forward to seeing what aspect of society these uneducated liberals try to take over next. I'm always in need of a good laugh.
