Gender neutral

Avant garde couples are raising their children to be gender neutral. This describes the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than another. This is a repeat of the way some mothers during the 60's raised their children. Little boys were given dolls and girls got trucks. Colors were the same for both. Many names for both sounded the same with girls names adding an i or y on the end such as bobbi and joey. As much as they tried the boys went back to playing with guns and the girls with dress up. Perhaps this time it will be different. Over the past 50 plus years gender differences have disappeared as women entered the work place and continued their education. These changes have benefited society as a whole but there still remains many ways in which the sexes are different, some good and some not so good. In our striving for equality let's not through out the baby with the bathwater.