I’ve seen this a lot when you’re 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 wasn’t worried about that, he couldn’t 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.
