Was with friends at a family party this weekend (not my family), kilted a usual. Few comments. But a 5-6-year-old showed how well her thinking had been preconditioned by asking me why I was wearing a skirt. I felt she was too young for the word "kilt" to have any meaning for her, so asked in my turn why she -- and her mum -- were wearing trousers.
Blank look.
"But why are you wearing a skirt?" she went on.
"Well I'd be cold wihtout one," I said.
"But you're a boy."
"Yes, I said. That's why I don't want to dress like you and you mum."
But her brain had been so well washed, that she remained quite unconvinced.
Children speak aloud what adults think quietly.

Martin