A TV show which aimed to take a class of children and make them gender neutral in order to create gender equality later in life was not responded to well by some quarters on Twitter last night.
In this bold, engaging and provocative experiment, Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim aims to find out whether stripping away the pink and blue will change the way this class of seven-year-olds think.
Being gender neutral
Taking over one Year 3 class from Lanesend primary school in the Isle of Wight, Doctor Javid aims to remove all differences in the way boys and girls are treated to see if, after six weeks of gender neutral treatment, he can even out the gaps in their achievement across a range of important psychological measures from self-confidence to spatial awareness.
However some on Twitter just did not get it!
https://twitter.com/Southendman1972/status/898002964463398912
You putrid millennials don't understand what people like me have been through for this country just for you to do this!!#nomoreboysandgirls
— Austin Smith (@AustinForTrump) August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/jparry1975/status/897719097500282880
https://twitter.com/DougWood_/status/897925774564577280
#nomoreboysandgirls I'm concerned that this is damaging to the 99.9% of people that do want to be boys and girls, just saying #BBC
— Mitch (@FatalPharaoh) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/SebastianRose_/status/898060824950034432
https://twitter.com/BerkeleyHunter/status/898039641596624900
https://twitter.com/wolfbane1997/status/898020780231069697
Well, it made for depressing reading:
https://twitter.com/karenomfg/status/898011903540285441
what is wrong with these people, we should all be gender nuetral and strive to be better humans not better men or women
This is brain washing. Why go after innocent children. They are developing mentally and if any type of gender anything should be taught, it should be to the parents. This is why many religious people keep saying that gays are after kids and a whole lot of people will spread rumors and what not. This is a garbage program. It should not exist.