"Why I didn't want a girl"

[asterroc]

A disgusting article written by a mother of two boys about why she doesn't want a girl for her third child. Absolutely disgustingly prejudiced and stereotyped and sexist and makes me want to puke. Moreover, what's this poor girl going to think when she grows up enough to read this article by her mother?

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Before this discussion goes any further, I would like to point out Amy Wilson's blogpost here. In short, CNN titled that article in that way, not her. I think that Amy's been cast in a bit of an unfair light by the media who want to make this story, as she says, provocative.

Granted, she is doing a little to propagate some sexist things in terms of how we (as a human race) raise children. I would be curious to see how you raise your own child(ren), assuming you decide to have any (naturally or otherwise). I'm not saying that to imply you might do a poor job (and I hope you don't read into it in any other way, as that was not my intent); I am just naturally curious: I've recently begun looking back on my own childhood and have had a few discussions with my parents about how they raised me and my younger sister. In doing so, I've come to just crack the surface of understanding what fantastically difficult, scary, life-changing, and life-encompassing learning processes childbearing and childrearing are. Wow.