Why Blaming Lily is Rooted in Misogyny - Part 3/Conclusion/What I've learned in the last 4 years

[ravenstar84]

"Patriarchy has no gender." ~Bell Hooks
I don't know who else is still around the fandomsphere that may read this. The few people I was close to here I've connected with on Facebook, and real life has a taken a toll on all of us in different ways. But writing out Part 3 was always my unfinished business, and at least now I have a slightly more

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[sailorlum]

I used to work for Kids R Us/Babies R Us, and they used to have a gender neutral section for the babies, but now it's all been divided up, and it's pretty much like what you've found at Target. Each section does have some green and yellow, but not much. All stores I've looked at, that have a boy and girl section, are this way. ^_^' And the gender neutral clothing stores seem to stock mostly the same type of stuff you find in the "boys section" of others stores (the colors are mostly all bold or drab, with few brights and pastels...it's depressing, I was hoping for a better mix of all colors and shades). I think picking from both "boy" and "girl" sections is going to be what I have to do if I want the most color and shade diversity, but that's okay, because I buy from whatever section I like, for myself, and it's all arbitrary, anyway, these boy/girl section divides.

If you are buying for others who aren't willing to spit in the face of gender conformity, though, there are a few things in both sections that could work for a boy/girl without most people pitching a fit about it breaking gender norms (if they don't know what section you bought it in), but it's hard to find.