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My Comic Guide On How To Handle Gender Expectations As A Parent
My Comic Guide On How To Handle Gender Expectations As A Parent
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My Comic Guide On How To Handle Gender Expectations As A Parent

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I’m an ordinary salary otter from Singapore, and I love to create content about family, psychology, and most importantly, understanding each other.

My wife and I had an important talk about us and our son and how to parent him. At the end of the day, a little shift in mindset can make a powerful difference in our children’s lives.

When we focus on who they are, and not society’s expectations, we’re creating an environment where the next generation can be themselves and love themselves.

Empathy is a trait we’re constantly asked to have, but it can only be utilized when we truly understand how people see the world from numerous angles. For the Gender Expectations post, I drew on personal experiences, conversations with friends, and insightful articles to create a more nuanced and measured comic. This has no agenda; it’s simply about understanding the pressures all of us face because of gender expectations, and how to make it better.

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    Understanding the complexities of human emotions and societal norms, such as parenting with empathy, is crucial for fostering a better environment for our children.

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    Just an ordinary otter embracing the Otter Way of Life.

    Violeta Draseikaitė

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    My name is Violeta and I am an editor here at Bored Panda. I love reading memes for a living. It’s obviously much more than that, but I appreciate the variety of topics, information, and pics I get to see every day and share with the world! Those funny memes really make my day too. Being born in the ’90s in post-Soviet Lithuania speaks more about me than I’d like to admit. I’m still learning about the world and myself, but I do love my friends, traveling, art, and my cat. My favorite fact to share about myself is that I used to hide meatballs in my friend’s pockets at lunch so I could go play outside. I wish all those meatballs could find their way back to me someday.

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    Violeta Draseikaitė

    Violeta Draseikaitė

    Moderator, BoredPanda staff

    My name is Violeta and I am an editor here at Bored Panda. I love reading memes for a living. It’s obviously much more than that, but I appreciate the variety of topics, information, and pics I get to see every day and share with the world! Those funny memes really make my day too. Being born in the ’90s in post-Soviet Lithuania speaks more about me than I’d like to admit. I’m still learning about the world and myself, but I do love my friends, traveling, art, and my cat. My favorite fact to share about myself is that I used to hide meatballs in my friend’s pockets at lunch so I could go play outside. I wish all those meatballs could find their way back to me someday.

    What do you think ?
    Ryan Deschanel
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tradition is just peer pressure from the dead. You think you should live a certain way because other people think they should think you should... And in the end, nobody cares, but everybody cares because nobody knows that nobody cares. Simple.

    Carmen Sandiego
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice post! I loved it and your drawing style is awesome!

    Bambi_da1andonly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love it! I have short hair and I’m bi. I really needed this for the bully’s!

    RandomBeing
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where are ur bullies I WILL BEAT THEM UP

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    Demon Child
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A comic about gender stereotypes...AND OTTERS???? perfect🖤

    Virgil Blue
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was (predictably) otterly adorable. And well said!

    Ambar
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES! consider likes and dislikes, culture, tradition do anything to be the person you wanna be! women can be strong, men can cry. there shouldn't be one way on how genders should be, it would be too plain then. (p.s I like the way how the drawings are, very simple yet wonderful!)

    Phica Afton
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly part of the reason I'm non-binary is because of all these expectations for certain genders. Some people would tease me about it saying s**t like "you're a girl, so that means you like pink." I actually despise the color, reason being that females are "supposed to like it" it pisses me off that people tend to see a female or male, and immediately assume stuff, "oh you're a boy, you must like sports an working out" "you're a girl, you must like makeup and the way your hair looks!" Please stop assuming these things. One of my friends bought me pink stuff because they thought I like pink because I was a female at that time.

    VeninTheNonBinaryRogue
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate pink. It’s like one of my least favorite colors. I have like on shirt that’s pink, but it happens to be my most comfortable shirt so I like it. But I get that. That’s kind of why I’m non binary too. I hate that it’s just like “ oh your a girl here’s some makeup and some pink crap” or “oh you’re a boy here’s weights and action figures”. I hate makeup and pink. I like action figures and weights are fun. I want to join a rock climbing team. Like a lot of that stuff is typically “boy stuff”. I’m just so sick of it.

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    Piper McLean
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This post is amazing!!!! Your art is sosososo cute!

    Chillace
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when i played pokemon my male kirlia evolved into a gardevoir, i showed my brother and he got mad about "gardevoir is a girl bla bla bla" i named my gardevoir "F*k da norm"

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    Ryan Deschanel
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tradition is just peer pressure from the dead. You think you should live a certain way because other people think they should think you should... And in the end, nobody cares, but everybody cares because nobody knows that nobody cares. Simple.

    Carmen Sandiego
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice post! I loved it and your drawing style is awesome!

    Bambi_da1andonly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love it! I have short hair and I’m bi. I really needed this for the bully’s!

    RandomBeing
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where are ur bullies I WILL BEAT THEM UP

    Load More Replies...
    Demon Child
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A comic about gender stereotypes...AND OTTERS???? perfect🖤

    Virgil Blue
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was (predictably) otterly adorable. And well said!

    Ambar
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES! consider likes and dislikes, culture, tradition do anything to be the person you wanna be! women can be strong, men can cry. there shouldn't be one way on how genders should be, it would be too plain then. (p.s I like the way how the drawings are, very simple yet wonderful!)

    Phica Afton
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly part of the reason I'm non-binary is because of all these expectations for certain genders. Some people would tease me about it saying s**t like "you're a girl, so that means you like pink." I actually despise the color, reason being that females are "supposed to like it" it pisses me off that people tend to see a female or male, and immediately assume stuff, "oh you're a boy, you must like sports an working out" "you're a girl, you must like makeup and the way your hair looks!" Please stop assuming these things. One of my friends bought me pink stuff because they thought I like pink because I was a female at that time.

    VeninTheNonBinaryRogue
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate pink. It’s like one of my least favorite colors. I have like on shirt that’s pink, but it happens to be my most comfortable shirt so I like it. But I get that. That’s kind of why I’m non binary too. I hate that it’s just like “ oh your a girl here’s some makeup and some pink crap” or “oh you’re a boy here’s weights and action figures”. I hate makeup and pink. I like action figures and weights are fun. I want to join a rock climbing team. Like a lot of that stuff is typically “boy stuff”. I’m just so sick of it.

    Load More Replies...
    Piper McLean
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This post is amazing!!!! Your art is sosososo cute!

    Chillace
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when i played pokemon my male kirlia evolved into a gardevoir, i showed my brother and he got mad about "gardevoir is a girl bla bla bla" i named my gardevoir "F*k da norm"

    Load More Comments
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