Posted: Dec 05, 2014 8:52 pm
http://www.naracoorteherald.com.au/stor ... mon-sense/
IN the December 2 Herald Sun article on No Gender December, Greens Senator Larissa Waters is calling for a rethinking of the way toys are marketed at boys and girls - no pink for girls, no blue aisles for boys.
She makes an enormous quantum leap in the imagination and links this type of marketing to "domestic violence, bigger gender pay gaps and inequality."
The link, however, is not mentioned, nor are the benefits of removing "gender biased" toy marketing.
I am of the opinion that domestic violence and inequality are caused by societal values and wrong ideas about gender roles being ingrained into children from as young as 5, not from toy store marketing.
Opinions about women, treating the opposite gender well and respecting your marriage partner are also first modelled in the home.
Media and politicians skew the God given roles of men and women by creating their own roles and ideas about them and create societal issues through enforcing negative and dangerous ideas about sexuality and identity to sponge-like young minds.
The notion that toy stores are contributing to domestic violence and inequality by placing pink toys in the hands of girls is akin to conspiracy theories about Roswell.
Michael Carr-Gregg rightly labels this imaginative problem as a "nail in the coffin of common sense," as the No Gender December campaign would rightly produce the said results - No Gender!
The sexualisation of children is already an issue amongst young children, and heaping the problem of gender confusion and promoting "no gender" marketing would compound an already broken childhood for many of our most innocent in society.
Let's fix the problems we've already created with the sexual revolution of the 1960s before galloping towards forcing children to choose their own gender through the lens of a Greens government and a relentless homosexual agenda.
LUKE GODDARD, Reedy Creek.