Gender and Parenting in Childhood

Introduction

• Focus on childhood and adolescence in relation to gender.
• Importance of recognizing that children have sex, sexuality, and gender.
• Exploration of how gender impacts lives from an early age.

Proposal of Pink and Blue World

• From birth, children face a world divided into pink and blue.
• Blue usually has greater social value than pink, creating inequalities from the start.

Predominantly Maternal Parenting System

• Current parenting is predominantly maternal, a historically naturalized system.
• Need to question concepts like "maternal role" and "paternal role."
• The paternal is linked to the introduction of the symbolic, related to power.

Hetero and Cis Normativity

• Society proposes that hetero and cis are the norm, while trans childhoods are seen as anomalies.
• Importance of accommodating and validating both trans and cis childhoods equally.

Diverse Families and Parenting

• Concerns about children in families with sexual or identity diversity.
• Proposal of a post-patriarchal and post-heteronormative approach.

Proposal for Change

• Expand the color palette beyond pink and blue.
• Consider trans childhoods as valid ways of being.
• Focus on the metapsychological rather than the phenomenological in parenting.

Impact of Parenting on Politics

• Parenting influences political decisions, like voting for Trump and Bolsonaro.
• Criticism of the legitimization of gender violence through media like "Beauty and the Beast."

Gender Ideology and Politics

• Exploration of how gender ideologies impact global politics.
• Example: The vote of white women for Trump and the rejection of Hillary Clinton.
• Reflection on the production of subjectivity and its relationship with politics and gender.

Conclusion

• Need to stop criticizing and start proposing different perspectives.
• Importance of thinking about new ways to understand and practice gender in childhood and society in general.