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Gender stereotypes

MaebbMaebb member
in November 2012 Moms
This brought to you by my Facebook newsfeed...Fisher Price had a sponsored post saying, "Breaking News! The British Monarchy announced that the latest addition to the royal family is bundled in BLUE!"

And someone commented, "Oooooh! Let's make sure we hurry to contribute to bias based on bigoted ideas about sex! It all begins with colorcoding."

This kind of takes me back to the great sex/gender debate when we were all finding out the sex. Wasn't it MandJS who was the stickler about that?

I don't really have a problem with blue for boys and pink for girls as babies, but I also will support DS if he wants to wear pink or purple later or paint his room a color other than blue.
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Re: Gender stereotypes

  • ssmb_clarinetssmb_clarinet member

    imageuconnhuskie007:
    meh - this isn't a hill I'd die on, but I can understand it really bugging some people.  Not my personal hot button issue though.

    I'm with uconn on this one...whatevs... 

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  • ironmom5ironmom5 member
    imageMandJS:
    Yup. That'd be me. I have zero qualms dressing my girls in blue, just like I think boys in pink are adorable.nbsp;


    Yup, this is me. We also plan to let Bird choose his own toys. Now, they are solely gender neutral. If he's 5 and wants an American Girl doll, fine. If he's 5 and wants a GI Joe, fine.

    Gender stereotypes are about way more than gender identity. They enable the systemic gender divide in this country, even subconsciously.

    So yeah, Duchess Kate had a male child, she didn't have blue.
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  • SurpriseAt39SurpriseAt39 member

    I wore an obscene amount of blue as a child. A bit of red and a bit of pink. And very few dresses. But .... I grew up on a farm. Dresses weren't practical for milking cows, slopping pigs and doing hay. 

    DD wore tons of blue. She chose blue.  Until around 4 to 6 then she chose pink. Then back to blue.

    I don't go looking for blue for N. in fact, I feel some of the outfits I see are very stereotypical. Trucks and monsters on blue outfits for boys. Flowers on pink outfits for girls.  

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  • CurlyQ284CurlyQ284 member

    I don't know how I feel about this.  I hate pink.  Haaaate.  I guess if DS wants to wear pink, I'll get him the shirt or whatever but I'm not getting pink stuff unless he picks it.  

    I also just thought about it and I dress him in light blue a lot because he has super blue eyes and it looks really good on him.  So I guess I'm contributing to the stereotypes but I have different motives.

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