Pink and Blue

[mennamachine]

An interesting article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html

Comments

[owlsarentaholes]

I hate the pink is for girls/blue is for boys" bullshit. Both my kids wore whatever I picked out for them when they were born - including pink on my son and blue on my daughter . . . whatever had the cutest style or the most adorable little animals on it.

NO giant hairbows (or hairbows, period) for my daughter, she isn't into such things. And absolutely no sports motif anything for my son. He isn't athletic, and we're not a sports-watching or playing family.

When they were small, the main thing that attracted me to certain clothes were colors I found pretty, and cute animals - if it had a moose or an owl or a duck on it, I'd probably buy it.

[kimie_catclaw]

Owls are apparently really popular right now. I've seen so much stuff with owls on it, and it's so cute.

I like cute animals and my kid will just have to put up with it until they're old enough to complain! :D

[owlsarentaholes]

FWIW, my daughter is 8 and she still allows for cute owls on her clothes.

They didn't have much owl stuff when mine were babies, so we have to soak it up now.

[renishas]

I so don't care. Feed them keep, them clean.

[kayotically]

I would generally dress boys in blues and not pinks because that's just how things have always been done around me but if my boy wanted to wear pink, and he has, I wouldn't care. He wanted a purse at the thrift store the other day, and he got one.

[courtney_ke]

*yawn*

I'll dress my kids how I like, you dress your kids like you like, some overeducated fart will write an article about how we're all doing it all wrong, and the cycle of overly-debated parenting choices will continue.

[claudia6913]

+1

[__45rpm__]

I dressed my daughter in whatever was cute when she was a baby. Sometimes I guess the clothes were "boy's" clothes.

Now that she's older she gets to wear what she likes, so it's a lot of Nintendo and Pokemon t-shirts and jeans.

As for boys, no they can't wear pink ever. Or paint their toenails. It will give them gay.

[mennamachine]

Especially if they paint their toenails pink. That's like deliberately infecting them with The Gay.

[__45rpm__]

Abuse, I say.

[anagramofbrat]

I'd rather give my stepson the gay than put up with massive tantrum he throws when I tell him he can't have glittery toenails like his sister.