VioletSky
Unfortunately there are parents who do not raise their children well.(despite being unable to see or agree that their parenting is problematic).
As well as abuse and neglect, the parents may have opinions, values and ideals that directly harm their own children. That can range from FGM and arranged marriage to views about race, sexuality or gender that prevent their child from having an authentic life and feeling loved for who they are.
This is why schools work together with other organisations to safeguard and educate children.
Ah, right. That's a far cry from Some generations really do go to great lengths to offend themselves....This is why we need acceptance and open mindednes taught in education.... So that future generstions are happier (said in the context of this thread, as opposed to in general), though, isn't it? And when the 'other organisations' include Stonewall, things are moving a long way from protecting children from abuse and neglect.
volver, It is allowed to disagree with you, you know? It's not about 'Barbie baaaad', and we are not sheep. You don't have to be so disrespectful to other posters - if you have a point to make, why not make it instead of sneering?
It's about using a child's toy to perpetuate the myth that transwomen are women. By making the doll the same as the other (female) ones but saying that it is trans, Mattel is suggesting that there is no difference between transwomen and women, when this is scientifically untrue.
If the astronaut, scientist, Rosa Parks and other dolls are role models which influence children (and I have no problem with any of them, other than that it would be better if they could be more realistically shaped), then how is having a 'trans' doll not going to do likewise? At best, it is normalising the idea that women can be men who say they are female.
