Small boy sitting on his father’s shoulder walking down the street.  Down the street, a woman is dressed, for whatever reason, is a Snow White costume.  He points at her, and says “Hey!  Snow White!”

A few seconds later, the boy laments.  “I wish I could be a girl.”
The dad, with a cautious tremble I attribute to minor hetero-normalitive fears, asks, “Why’s that?”
“Because,” the boy says.  “Then I could use the girl’s bathroom.”

[…]

Now, I know it may be a mistake to analyze the “Kids say the darnedest thing” utterances like this, but…
Huh?
No, really.  I was kind of expecting that the kid would reply — coming off of seeing Snow White — with “Then I could wear a dress” or “be a princess” or some such flashing fancy of Gender Envy —

And here I note that feminists shouldn’t be the only ones worrying about Disney’s Princess-Marketing effect on little girls; Traditionalist Christians may want to worry about its effect on little boys —

— but–
You’re not really missing anything in the girl’s bathroom.  Are you?

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