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by wincy 206 days ago
My friend’s son was four and had to have it explicitly explained to him that men can be scientists, too! Based on all the books he’d been read and other media, he assumed only women were scientists.
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My son wants to be female because every super hero that's interesting to him, it's female (he is 4). We learned to coast with this, but I did complain about the lack of cool male characters for young kids: the female ones seems to be better curated and more abundant
>My son wants to be female

That's the plan

I actually want him to not differentiate between the two. I find concerning that he distinguishes female as "being better".

Now of course he has a bigger sister he deeply loves and that's probably a big part of the deal