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"Or paint his nails? Or carry a purse? What if it was just for Halloween?  I recently stumbled across a thought-provoking blog post entitled &amp;quot;My Son is Gay.&amp;quot;  The blogger, a Midwestern mom of three, let her preschool-age son (who is too young to know what &amp;quot;gay&amp;quot; is) dress as Daphne from Scooby Doo for Halloween. And while other children were seemingly fine with this, some of their moms most definitely were not. One went so far as to suggest it never should have been allowed, the speculation being that by letting her son wear a dress, she was going to &amp;quot;make him gay.&amp;quot;  Which, of course, is ridiculous.  As the blogger pointed out, letting a boy wear a dress isn&amp;#039;t going to &amp;quot;make him gay&amp;quot; any more than a letting a boy wear a ninja suit is going to &amp;quot;make him a ninja.&amp;quot;  She writes:  &amp;quot;If a set of purple sparkly tights and a velvety dress is what makes my baby happy \u2026 then so be it. If he wants to carry a purse, or marry a man, or paint fingernails with his best girlfriend, then ok. My job as his mother is not to stifle that man that he will be, but to help him along his way. Mine is not to dictate what is &amp;#039;normal&amp;#039; and what is not, but to help him become a good person. I hope I am doing that.&amp;quot; I REALLY respect this mom for letting her son be himself. But at the same time, I don&amp;#039;t know if I&amp;#039;d be brave enough to do the same.  The idea that someone\u2014a child or his mom\u2014would say something hurtful to Emmett makes me sick to my stomach. I&amp;#039;m not sure yet whether it&amp;#039;s my job to protect him from all that, or if it&amp;#039;s to let him take a few sticks and stones and hope they make him a stronger person.  What do you think? Would you let your son wear a dress? What if it was just for Halloween?  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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