ext_17191 ([identity profile] wordplay.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] wordplay 2008-05-08 06:17 pm (UTC)

I mean, I felt like the Toronto guy's parallel with a black kid who just comes in and says, look, I feel white - that's really powerful to me. My heart broke for the little kid who was hoarding and hiding his girlie toys so his parents couldn't take them away, and what I kept wondering is how these kids were so completely socialized by age 2 that they already knew that long hair was girlish. I don't know, it's just entirely possible that I am incapable of understanding this too well because I haven't put in the walk-in-those-shoes time.

That willingness to engage so completely so young gives me pause - today's segment is at least advertised as being about a child who opts for (IIRC) castration before puberty. The magnitude and impact of that decision is enormous.

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