Politically Correct is not the same as Actually Correct

I have raised a son and a daughter from conception to adulthood. I am currently, for all intents and purposes, raising my not-quite-two year old grandson. I have several nieces and nephews, I have friends with children ranging in age from 2 months to 45 years. I believe I have seen enough children in various stages of life to say with some authority that sexual stereotypes exist for a reason. They are generally true.

Each Monday the grandson and I stand either on the front walkway or, in inclement weather, on the front porch and watch as one by one the trash, recycling and garden waste trucks come down the street and empty each individual bin into the truck. He is absolutely fascinated with these trucks. Any truck for that matter. He is captivated by basketball or football games, has multiple balls of varying sizes that he plays with every day, and his own ride on truck is frequently being "worked on" by this little bundle of masculinity.

Now, don't get me wrong, he likes to do other things to. He loves to play with his stuffed animals and have stories read to him. He even likes to clean right along side me with his own dust mop for the floors and swiffer duster for dusting! Being able to vacuum is the treat promised if he cleans up at the end of each day. He loves to pretend to cook with the pots and pans in the cupboard that he is allowed in (because I’ve made sure there is nothing breakable in there.) Cooking and cleaning are stereotypically considered “women’s work” and, in our home at least, the woman is the keeper of the home and thus in charge of these tasks. But largely, he does things we think of as "boy things."

Girls tend to do things we think of as "girl things." Girls do things that are typically associated with boys, too. However, there is a reason we think of them as either boy or girl things. It isn't because society has thrust these roles on them. It is because they naturally gravitate to these things. God created man and woman. He made them equally important but he did not make them interchangeable. There are roles for each gender outlined in the Bible and unfortunately, over the millennia, societies have twisted those roles and made them far more rigid than I personally believe God ever intended. That, like all other forms of legalism, is a failing of humanity, not of God. This twist is the cause of so many saying that gender roles are wrong and merely a creation of those who would keep women repressed. This erroneous thought is, of course, the beginning of the evil that is feminism but that is another post.

To say that gender roles are just restrictions we force upon our children to fit some agenda of our own is ridiculous. All you need to do is watch small children at play. I think we, as a society, might do well to consider that trying to force children out of gender roles is far more harmful than just letting them do what comes naturally to them because of God's great plan. Politically correct is not the same as actually correct. Politically correct is whatever we humans decide is correct and is frequently a way to pretend God doesn’t exist and didn’t create us. Actually correct is what God has told us is correct. It isn’t difficult to figure out which is which. Actually correct is all written down in the best selling book of all time, the Bible.