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Sep. 28th, 2005 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Flipping channels this morning, I caught about a second's worth of talking head gossip about the sex of some famous pregnant persons's baby, and it just blew my mind. Why the fuck, exactly, is it so important to know the sex of a baby? Is the whole fucking system of gender so unstable that indoctrination and propaganda have to begin as early as possible? Is it impossible for parents to imagine a child without knowing what their genitals look like? Enculturation is a creepy as fuck thing in general, but it's even grosser when aimed at children, who can't opt out and never gave their consent. Propaganda begins in the home, I guess.