In The Words of My Mother, This Irks My Hide.

I googled that phrase ("this irks my hide") and it's nowhere to be found. Oh Mom and your Momisms. :]

Anyways. THIS is what irks my hide. Go ahead, click on it!

If you're too lazy to read it, these parents in Canada had an adorable little baby named Storm but they are keeping its gender a secret in order to promote freedom of choice and all that crap. This is what the mom said: "We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now--a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...),"

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom of choosing who you want to be and how to act, but I think this is a little over the top. This is what the dad had to say about it: "If you really want to get to know someone, you don't ask what's between their legs." Yeah that's true, you don't ask that. But here's why it gets me.

In The Family: A Proclamation to the World, the prophets clearly stated:

"Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose." So, not to be crude, but "what's between (our) legs" is definitely a huge aspect of what defines us. There are certain traits that come with being a male or a female and those are not things that are interchangable. Your actual spirit has either a male or female identity.

Normally I'd say, "Yeah, I don't agree, but do your own thing, hide your child's sex as long as you can." But they have two older boys who they let dress/act/everything however they want. These boys are 5 and 2. They choose to wear pink and they choose to grow their hair out long. So they look like girls and are often mistaken for girls. The 5-year-old has said that he does not like being mistaken for a girl and has asked his mom to tell people he's a boy. When he's called a girl, the parents do not correct the misinformed person because they think if their boys care, they'll correct them. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Though Jazz likes dressing as a girl, he doesn't seem to want to be mistaken for one. He recently asked his mother to let the leaders of a nature center know that he's a boy. And he chose not to attend a conventional school because of the questions about his gender. Asked whether that upsets him, Jazz nodded."

It just disgusts me. I admire the parents' ambition to make their children as free from the influence of the world as possible, but part of me (actually ALL of me) can't help but wonder how they don't see that it's crippling their children rather than helping them. To me it is so sad that a little 5-year-old is allowed to do whatever he wants and then is embarrassed as a result, and his parents don't do anything to help him speak up.

But that's just me.

So.

30 Days of Blogging kinda killed me. Also...whenever I blog it's usually at work and I don't have access to pictures here. Anyways.

I read some friend of friend's blogs and some of them have adorable little babies. However. They take the most AWKWARD baby pictures EVER. (Ash, sorry I know you love all that weird baby photo stuff but it just creeps me out!!) I will give $100 to anyone who calls me out if I ever do something like that with my precious kiddies. (And just so you know....that's NEVER happening.)

The other day I was talking with my friend Peter at work about how girls always say to each other, "Your skirt is so cute!" "Your hair is so cute!" "Your necklace is so cute!" I am guilty of doing this. And I don't know why girls do it so much, I just think it's funny. One thing Peter and I decided was that a lot of times when girls get off on the wrong foot or there is tension between them, they try to bridge the gap by complimenting the other girl. Also guilty of this. Funny how that works, huh?

Hrrmm....what else to blog about. Daniel? No picture. He is awesome, amazing, fun, hilarious, all of the above. And YES, I love him. :]

I get to go home next week for my brother's graduation! Little Travie growin up aahh!!! Speaking of which...HIS PAPERS ARE IN!!!!!! I super incredibly a ton infinity hope that his call comes while I'm home next week. That would be the most amazing thing ever. Keeping my fingers crossed but we'll see what happens.

Well, I have successfully cured myself of boredom for the approximately 4 minutes it took me to type this....now to make it through the next half hour of work until I go to institute with DAN. Maybe I'll eat something, that's always a great (horrible) fix when you're bored out of your mind.

11:11

MAKE A WISH!

Dan

I'd like to make an announcement:

I am running on about 45 minutes of sleep here, but I am happy. I am one of the girls who is lucky enough to be able to say she is dating her best friend. His name is Dan.

More on this later. :]