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What exactly is gender bias? Is that treating my son like a boy and giving my daughter dolls to play with? A variation on different but equal? I don't want to be a man and I expect my husband would not want to be my wife. Gender is great. There are two varieties, male and female.

You have children. Yes, the girl's room is pink with little butterflies and the boy's room is blue with a sports motif. Gender bias you scream!

When you bought your cat, did you expect it to behave like a dog? You like the softness and the gentleness of your furry feline. Are you going to try to teach it to bark? Do I expect my son to act like his sister? God help us all. He would be teary eyed at the Anne Geddes babies in a teacup. He would be frantic because his hair had frizz. He would be sooo concerned about his hip and thigh measurement. He would not be the fantastic labor nurse that his sister is, because he would be puking at the first sight of the babies head.

I raised my children the same way. They ate the same food at the same table and I read them the same nursery tales. I did not lead them in any particular direction. I did not force sports down my son's throat and he hated to play competitively. He loved guns and gore. I did not share my son's love of ray guns and transformers and popguns. Did he scream for a machine gun in the toy store at three? Did I buy it, yes! Gender bias... Did he catch a live lizard that I found years later petrified in the mouth of a stuffed dinosaur.

I am not responsible- it is his male genes that made him this way.

It is no longer politically correct for a young woman to want to have babies and bake; she has to aspire to be a race car driver or a plumber. My son, if he was without any gender bias, should have his girlfriend take him out, bring him flowers and change the oil in his car. Let's get real, the feminists can scream all they want, but they cannot change the hormones that run through us, or the side of the brain that we use, nor can they make a heterosexual male child have a strong interest in playing with a Barbie dolls.

To me, gender bias is about liking who you are, male or female.

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