What's So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?

[dakota87]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/magazine/whats-so-bad-about-a-boy-who-wants-to-wear-a-dress.html?ref=magazine

[Dino Velvet]

Betcha nobody laughed at Charles Bronson.

Charles Bronson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson)


Early life and World War II service

Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfeld,_Pennsylvania), in the Allegheny Mountain Coal region north of Johnstown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown,_Pennsylvania). During the McCarthy hearings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy), he changed his last name to Bronson, fearing that Buchinsky sounded "too Russian".[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-2)
He was one of 15 children born to a Polish-Lithuanian immigrant[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-CB-3)[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-ENC-4) father of Lipka Tatar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipka_Tatars) ancestry, and a Lithuanian-American mother (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_people).[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-obituariestoday.com-5)[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-BBC-6)[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-USA_today-7)[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-8) His father[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-CB-3)[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-9) hailed from the town of Druskininkai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druskininkai) (or Druskienniki). His mother, Mary Valinsky, whose parents were from Lithuania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania) was born in the coal mining town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamaqua,_Pennsylvania).
Bronson was the first member of his family to graduate from high school.[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-CB-3) As a young child, Bronson did not initially know how to speak English and only learned it in his teens.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-ENC-4) Bronson's father died when he was 10, and he went to work in the coal mines. Initially, Bronson worked in the office of a coal mine, later in the mine itself.[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-CB-3) He worked there until he entered military service during World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II).[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-CB-3) He earned $1 per ton of coal mined. His family was so poor that, at one time, he reportedly had to wear his sister's dress to school because he had nothing else to wear.[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-NYT-10)[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-11)
In 1943, Bronson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces) and served as an aerial gunner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gunner) in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a B-29 Superfortress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-29_Superfortress) crewman with the 39th Bombardment Group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Bombardment_Group) based on Guam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam). He was awarded a Purple Heart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart) for wounds received during his service.[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson#cite_note-12)

[Jackal]

Teddy Roosevelt, Ty Cobb and many young boys in the 19th century USA wore frilly clothes as children. It was called breeching. Most kids like to pretend and dress up as characters and there is nothing wrong with being transgender or gender variant, anyway, if that turns out to be the case. Also, pink used to be associated with masculinity as it was seen as passionate whereas blue was seen as peaceful and feminine.

[trish]

If boys are allowed to wear dresses, next girls will want to wear pants. It won't stop there. Soon boys will be wearing thongs and girls will be wearing jeans. The ulimate consequences will be human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, the end of all 700 Club values.

[brooke3]

If boys are allowed to wear dresses, next girls will want to wear pants. It won't stop there. Soon boys will be wearing thongs and girls will be wearing jeans. The ulimate consequences will be human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, the end of all 700 Club values.

Thanks,best laugh of the day!

[onmyknees]

this