You go, girl!

[yip95]

Dear Abby has finally weighed in on the question of clothing color=gender/sex.

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/?uc_full_date=20070531

Pink does not make one a girl. Babies are not boys "because of the blue shirt". I really want to give some people an anatomy lesson...

Comments

[lizardjee]

i didnt want jaxen to have a lot of blue but i gave in because he looks so good in it. the funny thing is the poeple STILL think he is a girl evev dressed in blue. lol

he does have a couple baby dolls and no trucks. he does have a spiderman though. lol

[mistergoat]

I really want to give some people an anatomy lesson...

Though anatomy alone doesn't determine gender either...

[yip95]

well, sure. but mostly people are assuming sex and believing that to be the same as gender. which, in a baby, is pretty reliable. babies are actually genderless, imo, save for whatever gender we ascribe to them.
I'd love to have someone say "oh, what a cute girl! does she have a penis?" :)

[hyoter]

i really thought clothing colour not only indicated, but actually brought about gender. i mean, since i spent both of my pregnancies wearing nothing but pink (all magenta all the time) that's why i had two girls. right? if i ever get pregnant again i'm thinking about tossing the hot pink and wearing blue camo everyday. i think they'd get a kick out of it during quaker meeting.

[scry_dragonfly]

It can't bring about gender because I never wear pink and I have a girl with a penis. But maybe it brings about sex, since all my kids have male genitalia.

[yip95]

ah yes, I recall the many pink & magenta frilly maternity dresses you wore during your pregnancy with v2.0. You are the queen of pink! No wonder I guessed that v2.0 would be a boy, but was wrong - you changed her with your love of everything pink!