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Jun 21, 2010 18:01

I get that you don't want to cut your little boys curls ( Read more... )

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x_cybergoth_x June 22 2010, 06:00:30 UTC
*chuckles* she brought that on herself. She should have been pleased you thought she had such a pretty boy. The one I didn't get was being the supermarket the other day. I had my son in a sling as he fusses less than sat in the trolley. He was dressed in blue dungarees and a blue t-shirt and brow trainers and his hair isn't particularly long. I got the snide question from the check out server 'wouldn't it be easier for you to have her in a pushchair?'. She had been giving me evils in the queue because I was cooing and talking to him, even playing with him to keep him entertained, and was slower packing because he was strapped to my chest. But seriously, I am supposed to push a trolley and a pushchair and have almost no contact with my child and have him wailing in upset/boredom just to suit you and you claim its easier? I'll stick to having him strapped to my chest thanks.

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spookyevilone June 22 2010, 23:31:25 UTC
"You're trying to avoid gender stereotypes.. so why do you care what gender I just called your child?"

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ursulagoddess June 22 2010, 23:37:30 UTC
Sounds like that's going to be one confused kid 'eh!

;-)

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janedoetrouble June 23 2010, 19:24:39 UTC
I've read this several times and I'm trying to figure out exactly where you were stereotyping. You simply mixed up the sex of the child, which happens A LOT before three years of age. A steroetype would be, "oh you have a boy, he must love getting dirty!" That's a stereotype, and an untrue one, because girls get messy too. This other parent needs to learn what a stereotype is before she claims you are stereotyping her boy.

Also, boys and girls are different, that's just how it is! Ask my grandma about this who had three boys and two girls, even as infants they played differently.

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