raised without sex

Swedish couple decide not to use gender as a definition applied to their young child, opening the possibility to a human being raised without such a pressure upon themself.
http://www.thelocal.se/20232/20090623/

This is an interesting case. in theory i agree with everything these folks are doing. i mean really, this is some solid stuff. taking a child and saying, "hey, lets not get them dolled up, lets not teach them about boy and girl, isntead, lets let them be free of such constraints." to me this is enlightened living. why must me force down the throats of our children all this bullshit that we do. in artciles comdemning this i hear such things as how they shouldnt be trying to shove down idological vioewpoints down their childrens throats but what a hypocritical thing that is to say when children are faced with religious coersion all the time, go to church / temple / gurudwara etc. learn your bible/torah/quran/guru grath sahib. this is some real fuckign forcing of children when it comes to all this religion bullshit. children are too young to fight anything off, so anything you give htem will have an impact on years to come, maybe it will be cast aside as an adult but what a painful casting off and digging out it can be when something is unwanted. like thinking to yourself, "what if my folks never introduced sex to me." to me the real what if is, "what if my folks never introduced religion to me".

religion & children
this's something i've written a bout a few times now and i think children are too young to learn about very adult oriented terminilogy and circumstances. the concept of god and the otherworldy are things that a child can't hope to understand, except in impossibly grandiouse ways. perhaps some people never grow out of that, but i did. these concepts although large intheir art are actually in practice very small. most of these notions are more likely forged by men than perhaps the word spoken to them from some imaginary god. i don't know if i think no god exists, when confronted with the question do i think it certainly doesnt, i can't necesssarily say i do. there's no proof either way. why would i be the fool to declare something unproven to be absolutely true. this goes both ways, for athiests and believers. in between there's breathing room, rgound where you decide not to get involved. if you ask me what deignation i would accept for myself i would say perhaps religiously involved

but as a child, i dont think i should have beenf aced with all that i was. putkas, tightly tied, strict weekly visits to the local temple, forced training in particularly entwined cultural/historical/religious instruments & history as well as language. all of this to basicallyf uel what amounted to a counter-culture before my eyes. it opened my eyes, because whilst perhaps other kids are educated in communism or whatever else by their mothers and fathers, my cultural education, my counter-cultural educaiton, was that of sikhism. now in concept i think its brilliant to have such a thing as a cultural challenge posed to a child @ a young age. it'd be even better to have no challenge whatsoever. but still, what a crazy situation.