Probably because fathers tend to enforce the most rigid gender roles in the household and because her father only gives her positive attention when she acts "like a girl"
Cis society is built on passively affirming people’s assigned gender. It’s built into everything from clothing to basic social norms to medical care.
I try so hard to compliment my children regularly about things that they’ve expressed value for. I complimented one of them today that they were drawing eyes “really rectangularly”. Do I value that? No. But it made them really excited.
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Probably because fathers tend to enforce the most rigid gender roles in the household and because her father only gives her positive attention when she acts "like a girl"
Cis society is built on passively affirming people’s assigned gender. It’s built into everything from clothing to basic social norms to medical care.
I try so hard to compliment my children regularly about things that they’ve expressed value for. I complimented one of them today that they were drawing eyes “really rectangularly”. Do I value that? No. But it made them really excited.