Summary Of X A Fabulous Child's Story By Lois Gould

1. n the story, “X: A fabulous Child’s Story,” by Lois Gould you can see many sex differences portrayed. There are many gender oriented items that are portrayed such as the cousins wanting to give a football helmet for the boy baby or how the neighbors sent a pink flowered romper suit for the girl baby. Another instance was when one of the mothers told her daughter that little girls don’t hit or how X had to be a brat because it wasn’t a boy or a girl. Lastly, there is the portrayal that only boys are good at throwing, catching and sports and girls are only good at baking and needlepoint.
If we took the perspective of the parents of X, they showed X how to be neither a boy or a girl. The doctors went to great lengths to make sure the
parents didn’t teach X how to be a girl or a boy. Alternatively, based on the case study the wife is showing that it doesn’t matter what you teach the child because the child will eventually be a man. They are showing that its gender is what makes him a man. What it means to be a man is what the father must teach based on their culture.