My name could me male or female too. When i was little i had long-ish hair and a high pitched voice. A lot of strangers always assumed i was a girl. In hindsight i don’t care and it never really mattered, but i still remember how annoying that was for me. Ironically tho, later i always played in a woman’s team (like volleyball, tgat was like 90% women) because they were nicer to be around with than dudes.
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paranoid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I have a name that can be for boys or girls. For some reason, most people assume it’s a girl’s name and act accordingly.
When I was a kid, my parents signed me up for basketball. Someone thought it was a mistake for a person with my name to be on the boys team and moved me to the girls team, without telling me or my parents. I will never forget the embarrassment when I showed up to the first practice. I quit on the spot and didn’t play basketball after that.
I like specifying the pronouns.
sompreno@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I feel like most gender neutral names are single sex leaning so I can kinda understand the confusion
paranoid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m having flashbacks to that “did you just assume my gender” meme
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We as a society treat children like shit.
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 3 days ago
Yea but have you met children??
/s
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The problem is that we refuse to take responsibility for brats and treat nervous kids like shit instead. And they can’t even speak up cuz they’re kids.
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 3 days ago
I don’t know who ‘we’ is, but it does happen 100,000x on smaller scales with shitty parents. I’m sure it’d be a different story if 90% of adults wouldn’t get in trouble for parenting someone else’s kids these days to make up for the shitty parents.
schildfrosch@feddit.org 3 days ago
tl/dr: kids should learn from older kids. also school kind of sucky
sometimes i feel like before kids turn twenty, if you are more than four years older than them you basically can’t understand them at all. so maybe kids should learn from older kids. except they get put in a world where only other kids exactly their age and adults who don’t understand them at all exist. fuck school is what i’m trying to say. except i learned so many important things in school so fuck me i guess.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Older kids don’t talk to younger kids. I mean I still talk to three year olds and tell them they’re going to be very successful, but I’m an exception.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Study hall, recess and sports exist.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Adults as well.
Children should be taught how the world works. Dont lie to them about the nature of the world.
Hanrahan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have ni kids, i have no problems with kids, some parents on the other hand…