Embarrassing.

[sister_luck]

Today I heard a 30-something woman mock a boy of primary school age because the sand toy he was using had the wrong colour: "Look. It's pink! HAHA!" He dropped it like it was a hot potato and started digging with a red shovel.

Grrrrrr.

This is going a bit too far in the other direction. It's more about making a statement than about raising a kid without the pressures of gender norms/stereotypes.

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[labellementeuse]

re: the last one. I don't really agree. They're not keeping the child's sex secret from the child; they're just not telling it to anyone else. If people feel that they have to know the sex of the baby to interact with it, I find that much more telling than anything the couple might be doing.

[sister_luck]

Actually, I don't really mind them leaving random strangers in the dark and it IS telling how the article highlights that Jazz and Kio like girly stuff. Those observing the older kids seem to always assume they're girls and the original profile mentions that Jazz doesn't like being called a girl and that's part of the reason why he is not going to school. But is not telling anyone the solution?
I don't think that it is helping in that respect. Not telling won't stop people from speculating and/or assigning a boy-girl label. The only thing it maybe does for the kid, is that it shields Storm from people expressing the above sentiments like "Boys don't play with pink stuff". Will it change how other people think about sex and gender identities? That I don't know and I doubt it. And I'm not exactly sure whether this idea of educating people about the issue is at the heart of the parents' motives.

And it's not completely clear how much they're going to tell Storm about the labels 'boy' or 'girl'. At one point Storm will figure out that he's physically the same as his brothers or that she's physically different to them. And then?

I think it's going a bit too far, because I don't really understand what this experiment wants to achieve, what is its aim?