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What did gendering (or not) your kids teach you about your own gender identity?

Asked by Simone_De_Beauvoir (39052points) April 24th, 2012

For the purposes of this question, let’s assume you and I agree that gender is a social construct that we socialize our children into – that is, we mimic to our children how to be proper girls and boys and then women and men, respectively or, perhaps, we teach them that gender norms don’t matter and they can do whatever, etc. What I want to know is how does your specific way of teaching your kids gender affect (if at all) your own gender identity? Your answers are really important and I will clarify whatever details but, again, let’s not make this into a thread about whether or not you think gender norms are good or bad or how not teaching them is the worst thing since Satan.

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