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Originally Posted by Chazz
This is goofy.
The Swedes are confusing sex with gender. (A common mistake these days.)
This is erasure, not correction. There is nothing wrong with the terms "her" or "him". The problem resides in gender constructs.
Words can be manufactured, manipulated, misapplied and misappropriated, but bias resides in the heart not on the tongue.
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I'm not sure I completely understand what you're saying, so before I disagree with you I wonder if you would be so kind as to clarify that for me a bit? My interpretation was that they were eschewing traditional gender roles by placing toys associated with those roles with each other (among other things, such as gender neutral pronouns and suggesting non-traditional family structures during playtime) so as not to reinforce the separation of behaviors.