The urge to ask "How the heck can you walk in 6 inch stilettos?" is strong except immediately I think of the wonderful Miss Manners column where a readers said "How do you walk in high heel shoes?" to which she replied: "Gentle Reader: Right, left, right left." ;-)
I thought of you the other day when my five year old boy was asking me stuff about "can a boy be a girl? Can a boy dress like a girl? Can a girl dress like a boy?" etc. I tried to basically tell him that as far as *I* was concerned he could dress anyway that made him happy. But I also admitted that a lot of times when boys dress "like girls" they would get teased at school and that wasn't fair and it wasn't really ok but it does happen. I told him if anyone ever teases him about the way he dresses or looks he should make sure to talk to me or another adult at school about it. (mind you, other than having long hair he seems pretty uninterested about dressing in a non-traditionally boyish way so far. He's content to save skirts and dresses for home I guess.)
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I thought of you the other day when my five year old boy was asking me stuff about "can a boy be a girl? Can a boy dress like a girl? Can a girl dress like a boy?" etc. I tried to basically tell him that as far as *I* was concerned he could dress anyway that made him happy. But I also admitted that a lot of times when boys dress "like girls" they would get teased at school and that wasn't fair and it wasn't really ok but it does happen. I told him if anyone ever teases him about the way he dresses or looks he should make sure to talk to me or another adult at school about it. (mind you, other than having long hair he seems pretty uninterested about dressing in a non-traditionally boyish way so far. He's content to save skirts and dresses for home I guess.)
Anyway - there it is.