{"id":4770,"date":"2009-06-28T23:27:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T03:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2009-06-28T23:27:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T03:27:27","slug":"science-goes-out-the-window-to-promote-gender-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/science-goes-out-the-window-to-promote-gender-ambiguity\/","title":{"rendered":"Science goes out the window to promote gender ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study from A&amp;M University, Texas shows what every sane parent already knows: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1196183\/Why-boys-pick-Bob-Barbie--children-genetically-programmed-say-scientists.html\" target=\"_blank\">boys are different from girls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boys are genetically programmed to prefer Bob the Builder to Barbie dolls, say scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Tests involving children as young as three months suggest biological differences and not social pressures dictate which toys children like to play with.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. study looked at babies aged three to eight months &#8211; before they can identify even the gender of other people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Undaunted by mere science, gender confusion marches onward in Sweden where parents of a 2 year old declare by fiat that <em>gender is a social construction, <\/em> even though science, common sense and bodily apparatus says it isn\u2019t. The truly repulsive part of this is that the \u201cparents\u201d are sacrificing their own child to further their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20232\/20090623\/\" target=\"_blank\">miserably twisted delusions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Pop\u2019s parents, both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop\u2019s sex a secret. Aside from a select few \u2013 those who have changed the child\u2019s diaper \u2013 nobody knows Pop\u2019s gender; if anyone enquires, Pop\u2019s parents simply say they don\u2019t disclose this information.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in March, the parents were quoted saying their decision was rooted in the feminist philosophy that gender is a social construction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset,\u201d Pop\u2019s mother said. \u201cIt&#8217;s cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study from A&amp;M University, Texas shows what every sane parent already knows: boys are different from girls: Boys are genetically programmed to prefer Bob the Builder to Barbie dolls, say scientists. Tests involving children as young as three months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/science-goes-out-the-window-to-promote-gender-ambiguity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}