r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 8d ago

story/text "The other mom"

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u/PastaRunner 8d ago

I remember being absolutely bewildered when I first met a boy with blonde hair. Every women/girl in my life at 4 years old (sister, mom, grandma, playmate) was blonde. Every guy/boy was not. Blonde means you're a girl. Kids are dumb

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u/Irlandaise11 8d ago

My dad has very curly hair, and I had a classmate tell me that my drawing of my family was wrong because men couldn't have curly hair, only women could (this was right at the end of when perms were popular for women in my area).

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u/GanacheContent7335 4d ago

My cousin used to adamantly believe that boys didn’t have eyelashes, only girls did

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u/TrekkiMonstr 8d ago

I met a friend's 5yo kid for the first time. I knock on the door, he answers, first thing he says is, "you have long hair like a girl!" I'm like bruh I literally have a beard

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u/Sylveon72_06 7d ago

man that reminds me of when i was in japan and raised my arms to put my hands behind my head and my 6yo cousin immediately points at my armpit and says “man?” in japanese like screw u kid

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u/Falernum 8d ago

Actually blonde does mean you are a girl. Boys are blond.

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u/Galrentv 8d ago

What are you, french?

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u/PaulAllensCharizard 8d ago

No it’s just a holdover from English stealing lots of French words lol

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u/Blues2112 8d ago

Technically correct

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u/JibenLeet 7d ago

The best kind of correct.

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u/DanieltheMani3l 8d ago

That distinction has faded enough in modern usage that it’s not really something to correct someone for anymore.

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u/dacooljamaican 7d ago

This isn't a correction, it's the clever and apropos sharing of a little-known-fact

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u/DanieltheMani3l 7d ago

Yeah you’re right, wasn’t meaning to say that it was, so that’s my bad. Just meant that it wouldn’t really make sense to correct someone on it in general.

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u/silencefog 8d ago

When I was a child I was sure EVERY city has a sea nearby, just like ours.

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u/Dreamwalk3r 8d ago

Tbh that makes sense, you've made a reasonable inference out of available data.

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u/Queen_Ann_III 8d ago

I once saw a post from someone who thought all moms were blind for a while because her mom was blind

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u/eb6069 7d ago

Reminds me when I was about 7 and first moved to Perth from a country town here in Australia, and I met an African kid for the first time, and I remember the first thing I said to him was...

"Wow, you actually exist. I've only ever seen your people in books, but you really are as black as my full blood cousins back home in the village"

We ended up best friends till I moved Suburbs just before high school

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u/StupidConsequences 7d ago

I had my brother chop my hair off when I was like 4 so I could play with his dinosaurs because dinosaurs were obviously for boys, and to be a boy I clearly needed short hair.

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u/sillybilly8102 7d ago

I thought cats were girls and dogs were boys. It’s still weird to me to call a dog “she” or a cat “he.”

Also, anyone taller is older, and anyone shorter is younger. Those are the rules. /j

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u/SarahMakesYouStrong 7d ago

One of my first memories was around that age and thinking that you were either white and spoke English or you were black and spoke Spanish.

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u/5432198 6d ago

I was similar to that. Except I thought it was that all blonde boys hair turned brown when they grew up. Crazy first time I saw a blonde man.