Of course, my kid takes it in the opposite direction, and wants to put ketchup on EVERYTHING. Hot dogs and hamburgers ONLY (with the occasional grilled cheese), thank you very much.
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Wait, grilled cheese? I thought people did tomatoes on those. Unless youâre saying that youâre putting grilled cheese on your hamburgers and hot dogs, which is still a little weird.
But no, what I meant was ketchup on my grilled cheese (or rather, my grilled cheese dipped in ketchup). Yum!
However, I think we have drifted off topic.
Our daughter is now three months old, and let me tell you, itâs amazing what people sent us. My wife and I come from Northeast liberal families, where many women kept their maiden names after marriage, etc., and we still got package after package of pink, pink pink dresses and frilly knickers and who-knows-what from uncles and aunts.
Dresses for a newborn? It doesnât even make sense.
My wife and I took the onesies in the best plain hot-pinks and silk-screened octopuses, robots, and man-eating-plants (her namesake, Audrey II) on them, and hid the rest in a cupboard, and now things are better.
Salad Cream!
Mineâs 15 now. Still prefers dresses and every time we go shopping she acts like she regularly attends balls and dances. Thatâs okay; she has her own style - less dayglo this time around. Was a member of the science competition group. Just joined the gay and lesbian alliance - one of two straight kids so far but she is recruiting! And also pottery club. Seems to be okay despite the pinkwash.
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By the way, if you hate the pink sparkle girlâs department, wait until you see the tramp-wear in the Juniorâs department for your little girl!
Iâll just leave this here.
http://www.amazon.com/Dallas-Cowboys-Toddler-Cheerleader-Uniform/dp/B005IJL3TU
Possibly for the Toddlers and Tiaras crowd.
Dresses are slightly easier when it comes to changing a diaper, and when you want your toddler to learn to walk, they sabotage attempts at crawling (my daughterâs at that stage now).
Seriously though, they donât make a lot of sense apart from making babies look cuter and holding them back.
I had a book of short mystery stories when I was younger. I think it was called Five Minute Mysteries or something like that. They were kind of like Encyclopedia Brown but aimed at an older audience. I distinctly remember the solution to one of the mysteries being that a woman was an impostor because the real woman was known to be very fashion-conscious and had a closet full of nothing but pink outfits, but the woman claiming to be her was redheaded. The detective knew that pink clashed with red hair and a fashion-conscious woman would prefer blue or green outfits. So based on my vague memories of a book I donât remember the title of, youâve chosen good colours.
About a century ago, it was very normal for infant boys to also wear dresses.
We got a handful of SUPER frilly dresses as gifts when we had our little girl⌠My wife loved them, thought they were adorable, until we actually put them on her (the baby, not my wife). And then we realized that dresses for babies are, well, kinda dumb. Because all they do is grab the bottom of the dress, pull it up and put it in their mouth. I joked that it was a bit early for her to be going âGirls Gone Wildâ on us, lifting up her dress for the world to see. So those dresses were relegated to âtaking cute pictures of the baby in themâ and then taking them off.
Sexism is Over is an Etsy shop that does custom work for men and women, and her selection of fabric is pretty awesome. I think theyâre suited for biking, rock climbing, track events, and burning man.
Itâs not just moms. Plenty of dads INSIST that their childrenâs clothing be âgender appropriate.â In fact, I think Iâve heard more of that from dads than moms. But of course, when weâre criticizing parenting choices, men get a pass.
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Well of course, why wouldnât we? Years of low expectations have made any parenting by dads an automatic applause point.
Showing up at a bakesale? I must love my kids. However, my wife had better have made something or there are going to be whispers. And if I baked instead? Itâs like I walk on water. But whatâs wrong with my wife? She must âjust be bad in the kitchen.â
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Iâve seen this a lot when youâre talking about sons, especially first sons. Although it is fading, there was a time when it was practically a crime to dress a boy in a pink shirt, because you might turn him gay. Even if the father wasnât worried about that, he couldnât allow it because all of the other fathers would give him grief about his girly boy. Girls in boy clothes were much less hot button, but even then there would be concern about someone raising a tomboy.
Hah! I get this all the time. When I was off on parental leave with my son, I would always get âAwww, are you taking a day off work to babysit today?â - âNo, Iâm parenting.â
See also: any cleaning product/household item ad that portrays the dad/husband as a bumbling oaf that has no idea what heâs doing around the house.
This is still very much alive and well. We are friends with a couple, the husband side of which will always give me grief about how weâve bought my son a toy kitchen, tea sets, dollhouses, etc because theyâre toys he likes to play with. And I always make it very clear that I have absolutely no problem with him playing with said âgirlyâ toys, because theyâre just toys, and toys arenât going to âturn my son gayâ - and that even if my son DOES turn out to be gay, I really donât give a crap.
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I have to admit that even I have my limits. Iâm definitely going to do a double take if I see someone dress a 5 year old boy in a frilly pink summer dress.
I bet theyâre pretty comfortable. And at five theyâre pretty much dressing themselves, not wearing what you want them to wear.
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