So What If a Boy Wears a Dress?

So What If a Boy Wears a Dress? Many male kids grow up playing with toy guns, toy cars and other toys for their favorite heroes such as Superman, Batman or Spiderman while females are known playing with dolls, make up kits and sometimes some play with toy guns and cars too which is normal. But when a male kid likes to play with dolls and wear make ups, it raises a problem in a society. In the article “What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?” by Ruth Padawer, she raises awareness by sharing history that contributes to the role of a gender nonconforming child in today’s society; hardships the child and his/her parents face; and the decisions that must be made as the child progresses.
To begin with, she gives a brief history of two parents, Susan and Rob who sent an e-mail to parents of their son’s classmates in preschool. It says “Alex has been gender fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).” they explained that Alex had recently become inconsolable about his parents’ ban on wearing dresses beyond dress-up time (Padawer, 1). When Alex was 4, he pronounced himself “a boy and a girl,” but in the two years since, he has been fairly clear that he is simply a boy who sometimes likes to dress and play in conventionally feminine ways. Some days at home he wears dresses, paints his fingernails and plays with dolls; other days, he roughhouses, rams his toys together or pretends to be Spider-man. Even his movements ricochet between parodies of gender: on days he puts on a dress, he is graceful, almost dancerlike, and his sentences rise in pitch at the end, on days he opts for only “boy” wear, he heads off with a little swagger. Of course, had Alex been a girl who sometimes dressed or played in boyish ways, no e-mail to parents would have been necessary; no one would