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Originally Posted by Dance-with-me
Seriously!!! And her investment in it is completely arbitrary. I mean, Chas has a short haircut, wears almost exclusively "boy" clothes, plays almost exclusively with "boy" stuff, and is seen by everyone who doesn't know better (and by some who do) as a boy. So why randomly insist that no, she can't wear one particular thing, or has to wear a certain thing (such as a barrette) -- or the very worst day, when she insisted that if Chas wanted to go to a waterpark with the boys and girls club, she had to wear a two-sizes-too-small girl's two-piece bathing suit instead of her normal board shorts and rash guard?!? Then again, the ex is seriously fucked up in many different ways - which is why she's my ex (and should have been LONG ago). But I digress....
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Maybe it is as simple as it can be really hard to be a butch in our society, your ex has experienced this in a real way, and she doesn't want her grandchild to have to go through that?
Of course, it is an irrational thought...kind of like make the gentle boy play rough sports so he "doesn't become a fag", but maybe this is what it is grounded in.