I am all for acceptance. Of course, to a certain degree that is. But when I am asked to accept a young boy who dresses up as a girl, pink dress and all, and then calls himself "Princess Boy" I think I have to draw the line. The kid is 5 years old and from a young age has decided that pink is his favorite color and a dress his favorite form of attire. There is something wrong with this, and I have the benefit of speaking my mind while not having a huge audience.
Ok.. so to further alienate myself I will continue to berate the decision by these parents to allow their son to do this to himself. But first a short background to the story. Apparently this child at a young age decided that he wanted to dress up like a girl. At first, his parents told him not to. They tried to steer him away from the pink dresses and get him playing with fire trucks and to wear jeans and t-shirts. However the kid wanted to have nothing to do with the standard boy clothing. Mom and Dad were at witts end. They did not know what to do, until the mom says she was hit with an epiphany when the child's slightly older brother made this comment to his mother. "Mom," he said, "Why not let him wear what he wants? Why not let him just be happy?" And upon hearing that, Mom decided he was right. Why NOT let him be happy. And if wearing pink dresses and princess type gowns makes him happy, then so be it. It was HER who had the problem. It was HER who needed to accept what her child wanted to wear. It was HER who was wrong. NOT her son.
So this was what she had decided and what she told the country as she appeared on the Today show this morning. Well, it appears now that all the attention this has garnered her has allowed her to write a book about the situation (a kids book) as well as a somewhat popular blog regarding acceptance. I will give her credit on what point however. It appears she is not trying to get rich off of the attention.. she honestly is just trying to get people to learn to accept things such as what has occurred with her boy. And that is fine, what I disagree with is the choice in clothing.
Sure, you can call me a homo-phobe or whatever you like. You are certainly entitled. But for my opinion on the matter you do not have to look any further than this post. The kid wants to wear princess costumes as regular clothing, being a boy... umm... why did Mom not continue to tell him no? And where did he get the idea about wearing a princess dress in the first place? Children only know what they are exposed to. So somewhere he was given the idea and he went along with it. And at some point I am willing to bet that he came down the stairs wearing a dress and Mom thought it was cute.. so she let it go. That gave the kid approval at that point and the idea was fostered from that point on.
So she is now preaching acceptance. She is telling people that it should be ok for people to wear clothing that is meant for the opposite sex. I know that homosexual tendencies and homosexual marriages and other such unions are starting to slowly become socially acceptable. But I don't think they should be. Call me what you will, but how could something so incorrect be looked at as proper? Take the human body as my main and only needed exhibit. A male and a female body, in the process of mating, fit together like two puzzle pieces. Both parts from the opposite partners are made to fit together. This is true in the animal world as in the human world. So why is it that we can look at two members of the same sex and say that it is ok? It does not happen in the animal world.. I guess what I am saying is that whether or not you want to try and prove me wrong.. go for it. But fact remains that it is not meant to work that way. The homosexual way that is. And that is exactly what this poor child is going to be predisposed to become. With what is going on in his dressing habits, how can he have any other future besides a gay one? I would be really surprised if this kid turns out straight.
I may be one of the only ones willing to share his opinion on this subject, as many will shy away from openly saying much of what I said here today, but I have to put it out there. This child is being allowed to dress as a princess and be called a "princess boy".. the parents are setting him up for failure. He will have to fight extra hard to get anyone to even hear what he has to say about anything. Simply because they will first have to get past his choice in dress. And the mother is taking this 5 year old child and letting him be the one to take the brunt of the attacks as she preaches acceptance. With him as the pawn, he will take the beatings. Both verbally and later in life, physically. It is a sorry situation for the child. I wish that his parents would have stopped this behavior when it started and told him the proper dress for a young boy is boy clothing. Not a princess dress and hat. And to not call himself a princess boy.
