Gender Roles Are Robbing My Son Of His Innocence

The other day I was sitting outside with my 4-year-old son, and I put some chapstick on his lips so they wouldn’t get sunburned.

“Do my lips look beautiful, Momma?” he asked.

“Yes they do,” I replied.

He immediately wiped the chapstick on his sleeve and said only girls are supposed to make their lips beautiful. He seemed concerned and upset, which…

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