Maren Morris Gets Heated About Gender Stereotypes While Defending Son

Maren Morris is known to always speak her mind. The artists opened up about a recent encounter that she had about gender roles.

Maren Morris is known to always speak her mind. The artists opened up about a recent encounter that she had about gender roles.

Taking to TikTok, Morris said that she had to defend herself and how she was raising her six-year-old son, Hayes, from a male acquaintance. Morris doesn’t believe in gender stereotypes such as “only girls can like pink, and girls can’t like Spider-Man.”

“And you know, they hear this s–t, like, at school, from another friend, or like whatever, and it’s my job as his parent to correct that and be like ‘Actually, anyone can like the color pink. I like Spider-Man,’” Morris said.

However, the male acquaintance apparently disagreed with Morris. The singer said that he was “being pretty dismissive of my concerns and was like, ‘Well, these boys need to toughen up anyway.’”

Maren Morris Gets Heated

“And upon hearing that, of course, my first instinct was to see red. But, I can emotionally regulate myself, and I just calmly said, ‘No, he doesn’t need to toughen up, actually,’” Morris continued.

Morris disagreed with the statement, noting that her son loved baseball but also musicals. He is gentle and loves colors, with Morris sometimes painting his nails. Her son also likes to make jewelry. She told the acquaintance that she doesn’t need to toughen up her son.

“Our job is just to never shame them for expressing those things. It’s the best part about being a kid,” She said. “My son can emotionally regulate himself better than this man could. My son can say like, ‘I’m frustrated.’ Or if he’s overwhelmed, he can like go take a beat in his room. He does that for himself without me even needing to step in now, he just knows how to do it.”

Apparently, the guy stormed off after getting into a disagreement with the singer.

“We have to be able to talk to each other about these things in order for that to progress,” Morris said. “And yeah, I guess, I don’t know if that guy storming off learned anything – he was pissed – but, I just felt bad for him. I felt like I’m really glad to be raising a boy that’s not going to end up in a sort of echo chamber or prison of shame and anger like that.”