I don’t like white girls
So all of you parents out there trying to raise your child gender neutral – good luck.
I was watching Tin play as well as the other kids earlier this week and the first grade boys were all playing together and the first grade girl came back to the adults sulking. Girls sulk when they are not getting the attention from boy(s) they want. They do this at 50 or at 5 years old – it’s sort of amazing.
Then I picked Tin up from school two days ago and he said, “I don’t like girls.” I said, oh really, well I’m a girl. “I don’t like white girls,” he said. Well, I’m a white girl and so is, and I rattled off countless names of white girls he loves. “Nah, I don’t like girls. I just like boys.”
I wondered about this conversation. Was it just four year old inanity – of which there is plenty – or something else? Naturally, I wondered about the “race” part of the dialogue. Then I was speaking to his teacher and found out the root of this conversation. Tin has a crush on a girl in his class and they have been thick as thieves, but just this week, she has taken up with another boy. She hasn’t dissed Tin, she has just included the other boy and has one sit on each side of her commanding both of their attention like the princess she is.
Tin’s pissed.