Your Mom is a Bus

The reason the proposal is not "raise every girl as a boy" is because this has been largely discussed in feminist circles as a positive thought experiment. The suggestion implies: raise girls not to lack in strength, ambition, assertiveness, opportunity, and freedom to their peers. The knee-jerk reaction anti-feminists have to this stem from unchecked belief that the freedoms afforded to boys are unnatural and unbecoming to a girl.

"Raise every boy as a girl" elicits a knee-jerk reaction from every side of the political sphere. What do we think of when we ask what raising boys as girls would look like? Does that seem demeaning? Objectifying? Abusive?

Let's say we removed any perceived axis of privilege from the gendered aspects of how we raise children.

Does the idea of raising a boy as a girl by default, if gendered qualities are equally valued, still seem more outrageous than the inverse? If so, maybe femininity, by default, should not be forcibly imposed on anyone over the other.

That was the exact thought process

Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl? Yes.

Q. Why? A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.

Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as boy? Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as boy, and not a girl.

Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'? That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.

Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls. If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.

Q. But boys and girls are different. All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls.

Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy? Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made.

Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves? The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl.

Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty? If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.

do you have anything you hope for?

I wish I had Hope