Clown Shames A Mother Who Wouldn’t Let Her Son Get A Butterfly Painted On His Face But Instead Asked For Skull And Crossbones
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From a young age, children are taught to conform to gender norms, however, sometimes it can get really out of hand. Twitter user Sandra, who works as a clown and paints children’s faces, decided to share a sad experience she witnessed that highlights gender stereotypes. During a picnic, a boy asked her to paint a blue butterfly on his face, but his mother intervened. She forbid the boy from getting a butterfly and demanded that Sandra paint something more ‘masculine’. This encouraged Sandra to voice her opinion on what happens to boys who are shamed for liking ‘feminine’ things and are forced to be hyper-masculine instead. Scroll below to read how the whole story unfolded!
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From a young age, children are taught to conform to gender norms, however, sometimes it can get really out of hand
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Twitter user Sandra decided to share a sad experience she witnessed that highlights gender stereotypes
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so a girl likes football and beer and she's labelled a Tomboy, instead of a girl who likes football and beer. a guy likes nature, butterflys, puppies and is labelled what? a sissy? instead of a boy who likes nature. why does everything have to have a label, a category, people like stuff, get over it! clown shoulda painted the butterfly anyway...
That's exactly because of that that kind of labels that we get clichés like the « badass woman, one of the boys, not like the other women », meaning that other women only like to do the "girl things ", wich are considered superficial, you know : makeup, shopping, etc. This statement : " You know, I 'm not like the other girls. " is probably one of the less femenist of all time.
I totally agree, but for the snipe at the clown at the end.
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What about kittens :(
You DO ger male butterflies how else do they keep on going.
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And because of this, trans are the new women.
What the? A woman who can read and type? SCANDALOUS!! What are you doing out of the kitchen, wench?
Toxic masculinity truly is disgusting. Very sad that a little boy couldn’t get a damn butterfly painted on his face, absolutely ridiculous
I wonder if she would have let him have a bee. Are bees masculine? How about a cat? Is a cat feminine or masculine? A dog? What arbitrary rules.
Bees- no; wasps- yes; cats- depends- little, domestic cats- no, tigers, jaguars, pumas and s**t- hell yes; dogs are always cool.
Since we are giving gender roles to animals, I'll like to propose the question: Are human feminine or masculine animals? See how stupid that sounds?
Who knows, maybe a male butterfly feels utterly ashamed when a human is painted on his cheek.
are monkeys masculine or feminine? :) it's not that complicated, just very primitive and stupid. for that kind of people cute things are feminine, strong and tough looking things are masculine. and whole this dividing thing is too shameful, like if we were some kind of apes and if guy is not tough and aggressive enough will stay alone without female.
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Is toxic Femininity disgusting?
I’ve never heard of that. Give me a few examples and I’ll be able to answer
Yes.
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No such thing as toxic masculinity. C**t.
You just proved her point.
So, you're telling me this mother was terrified of a pretty blue butterfly and would rather have pieces of a corpse painted on her son? Jesus Christ, dude. Can we just like not dictate what our children are interested in like wtf dude
children need CORRECT guidance of parents while they have some authority. we must "dictate" what they should NOT be interested in. we must teach them not to be interested in something terrible they can see somewhere accidentally (for example, my cousin (he was 4) saw how car killed cat. after few days he tried to kill neighbors cat. parents took good care of that problem and now he loves animals). it's sad how some parents are giving "absolute freedom" to their children while they have very weak understanding of good and evil, and no "social skills". we are living in cruel environment and it's teaching very bad things (but when parent is doing everything so wrong, like starting panic because of butterfly, letting kid do anything he wants is better, sadly), also they must learn to be part of society (e.g. not to throw food towards other people in restaurant while parents are letting him "be him/herself"). being good parent is hard job and there are too many people doing it wrongly.
Poison, injury, bullying and being hurtful jerks? Yes, parents should keep their kids away from that. A decoration on a fun day? Nothing wrong with it. And give them nature books so they can learn about ALL of their world. Not just what their parents know.
you should let kids dictate what they want, decorations, activities, sports, even leting the kids buy their clothes, of couse the parent must be alwys there to stop fisical injury, but kids need to have their freedom
ummm my daughter has seen animals killed and has never tried to kill an animal....
so a girl likes football and beer and she's labelled a Tomboy, instead of a girl who likes football and beer. a guy likes nature, butterflys, puppies and is labelled what? a sissy? instead of a boy who likes nature. why does everything have to have a label, a category, people like stuff, get over it! clown shoulda painted the butterfly anyway...
That's exactly because of that that kind of labels that we get clichés like the « badass woman, one of the boys, not like the other women », meaning that other women only like to do the "girl things ", wich are considered superficial, you know : makeup, shopping, etc. This statement : " You know, I 'm not like the other girls. " is probably one of the less femenist of all time.
I totally agree, but for the snipe at the clown at the end.
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What about kittens :(
You DO ger male butterflies how else do they keep on going.
This comment has been deleted.
This is a trigger post for reactions like clickbait...
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
And because of this, trans are the new women.
What the? A woman who can read and type? SCANDALOUS!! What are you doing out of the kitchen, wench?
Toxic masculinity truly is disgusting. Very sad that a little boy couldn’t get a damn butterfly painted on his face, absolutely ridiculous
I wonder if she would have let him have a bee. Are bees masculine? How about a cat? Is a cat feminine or masculine? A dog? What arbitrary rules.
Bees- no; wasps- yes; cats- depends- little, domestic cats- no, tigers, jaguars, pumas and s**t- hell yes; dogs are always cool.
Since we are giving gender roles to animals, I'll like to propose the question: Are human feminine or masculine animals? See how stupid that sounds?
Who knows, maybe a male butterfly feels utterly ashamed when a human is painted on his cheek.
are monkeys masculine or feminine? :) it's not that complicated, just very primitive and stupid. for that kind of people cute things are feminine, strong and tough looking things are masculine. and whole this dividing thing is too shameful, like if we were some kind of apes and if guy is not tough and aggressive enough will stay alone without female.
This comment has been deleted.
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Is toxic Femininity disgusting?
I’ve never heard of that. Give me a few examples and I’ll be able to answer
Yes.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
No such thing as toxic masculinity. C**t.
You just proved her point.
So, you're telling me this mother was terrified of a pretty blue butterfly and would rather have pieces of a corpse painted on her son? Jesus Christ, dude. Can we just like not dictate what our children are interested in like wtf dude
children need CORRECT guidance of parents while they have some authority. we must "dictate" what they should NOT be interested in. we must teach them not to be interested in something terrible they can see somewhere accidentally (for example, my cousin (he was 4) saw how car killed cat. after few days he tried to kill neighbors cat. parents took good care of that problem and now he loves animals). it's sad how some parents are giving "absolute freedom" to their children while they have very weak understanding of good and evil, and no "social skills". we are living in cruel environment and it's teaching very bad things (but when parent is doing everything so wrong, like starting panic because of butterfly, letting kid do anything he wants is better, sadly), also they must learn to be part of society (e.g. not to throw food towards other people in restaurant while parents are letting him "be him/herself"). being good parent is hard job and there are too many people doing it wrongly.
Poison, injury, bullying and being hurtful jerks? Yes, parents should keep their kids away from that. A decoration on a fun day? Nothing wrong with it. And give them nature books so they can learn about ALL of their world. Not just what their parents know.
you should let kids dictate what they want, decorations, activities, sports, even leting the kids buy their clothes, of couse the parent must be alwys there to stop fisical injury, but kids need to have their freedom
ummm my daughter has seen animals killed and has never tried to kill an animal....