Betty's Pub 20.1
Main Menu => Older Galleries => Topic started by: transboy on April 13, 2014, 04:54:13 PM
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For the past four years, photographer Lindsay Morris has been documenting a camp where hiking, crafts and kayaking share space on the schedule with putting on makeup and playing dress up.
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The "You Are You" Camp Gives Boys The Chance To Be The Girls They Want To Be
“There were so many great moments,” she said. “I love the fashion show, but my favorite pictures are the really quiet moments when they are totally at ease and you forget that these are boys in dresses.”
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Morris added that she was particularly motivated after seeing how brave the children and their parents were to put themselves out there.
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WOW, great post transboy. Where was that camp when Betty and I were growing up, we would have managed to get there somehow. Loved the photo's as well and they look like they are having a wonderful time.
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Thanks Transboy
Yeah. What a bunch of lucky kids to have a place like that, plus family & friends that allow it.
I like the yellow outfit.
I decided to look up more on this. Don't bother posting more pix of it. I'm currently in the process of getting all of them, & will post the cool ones when I'm get them all.
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I found about 70 pix of the place.
I decided to only post some of them rather than all of them... including some enhance versions of previously posted ones.
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I hate to sound like a prude again about very, very young kids wanting to crossdress, or become the other gender. Some of these kids I see in the pix (and a few I didn't post) are barely are old enough to walk & talk. They're far too young to allow them to decide their own gender yet, or have somebody decide it for them. Gender should not be encouraged or discouraged either way at such a young age. To a pre-schooler, or young grade-schooler, there may be many reasons, or advantages that a young child may see in being another gender, other than it being a real gender identity problem.
Encouraging a child in a fatherless household, or household dominated by women (and girls) to be less masculine, & more feminine, is feminization. A mother, aunt, grandmother, or even a sister may prefer the boy of the household be less masculine, & more feminine so they're more passive, quiet, or behaved. Some just prefer their boy of the house to be more cute & delicate (like as cute as a puppy or kitten in bows & ribbons).
In other cases they just don't like boys, hate boys, or hate the father, so don't want a real boy, or that particular boy in the house. They make it a mission to change the boy into something less boyish, or that don't resemble the father.
Allowing a boy to be a girl or dress like one in a household with few or no male role models at a very young age, is feminization. Encouraging it, treating them like a girl, & dressing them like one is forced feminization.
Petticoat punishment may not exist much anymore, but women turning their boys in the house into cute, less masculine, or more feminine, delicate kids (for whatever reason) is still very real.
Up until 8-10 years old, most boys aren't very masculine. It's not a gender identity crissis, it's just the way they are when they're young. The differences in gender behavior are few, & the border between the genders is still thin at that age.
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I'm seeing a few of these boys with bruises & other boo-boos on their knees, legs, arms, & elbows. These are common injuries boys get doing boy things. You don't usually see these kind of bruises & scabs on most girls (except tomboys & peppermint patty), & boys who feel that they are girl.
It appears a few of these kids just wanted to play dress-up, or are encouraged to do so by their mom, sister, or somebody. A boy with gender problems will be seen playing with dolls or other girls toys, not climbing trees or boulders twice their size, playing around with toy trucks, or rolling around in the dirt & mud with the other boys.
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Thanks Betty! Great job.
Im so glad there are camps like this and thanks to photographer Lindsay Morris for helping to make more people aware of gender nonconforming.
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Hey betty, great pictures but your statement in reply #21 would be a little incorrect when it came to me and you also perhaps. I often had scrapes and cuts and bruises on my arms and legs from trying to fit in with the boys all the time at my fathers insistance or like you climbing around old buildings looking for places to be alone. Some of these boys may have just wanted to play dressup while in the company of other like minded boys so as not to stand out too much. I would have jumped at the chance for something like this and bet you would too. All the boys look cute in their pretty clothes and seem to be having fun . Thanks again.
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I saw this on the time magazine website.
http://time.com/3743987/gender-creative-kids/
http://www.lindsaycmorris.com/you-are-you