My Pal Scout Violet

[NoseyJosey]

Quick question for you lovely lot. I feel I know the outcome, but would like to see opinions and a bit of inside info.

My son has my pal scout and he has proven popular over the last few years. I wanted to get my youngest son one too, but am not keen on them having the identical ones. I've been looking at getting him the purple one (violet) instead. General consensus is that violet is the girls version. Now this doesn't bother me, but I also don't want to open the door for years of justifying myself either because I'll get increasingly irritated and go mad (I'm sure no one would question a girl playing with scout). Hubby not keen, but cannot articulate a reason.

So would you get your son violet, or not?
And also, if you have violet, is there anything that is different from scout? I assume the names list is not gender specific to each toy.

[skankingpiglet]

DD2 has a Scout. The name list was girl's and boy's although DD2's still wasn't there, so I can't see why it'd be different for Violet. I highly doubt they have two totally different pieces of software for what is ultimately the same toy with different colour fur. A friend's DD has Violet and I didn't notice any difference from our Scout (admittedly I've not paid particularly close attention to hers!).
I would also get the purple one for a subsequent child (DD1 never had one and is now too old). We didn't go for Violet initially as with two girls we already have a house full of pinks and purples, so will always go for the 'gender neutral' option when there is a choice. However it'd be more important to me to be able to differentiate with a second than avoid the purple! I wouldn't feel any different if the subsequent child was a girl or boy. You'd have no reason to justify yourself: 2 children, 2 different coloured toys, no arguments over ownership.

[Enidblyton1]

They do exactly the same thing

The only difference is the colour of the toy.

Of course you can buy either of them for girls or boys. I have two DDs. One of them has the purple one and the other has the green one.

[NoseyJosey]

Thanks guys, that's my thinking too

[SleepFreeZone]

DS1 has Violet as she was on offer at the time. He is 4 and was playing with her last night as he has the LeapFrog laptop toy and Scout mentions Violet on there. He has never commented on it being lilac and I don't think the colour as turned him gay.

[NoseyJosey]

No I'm not so primitive that I believe anything can turn him gay, and it wouldn't matter what his sexuality anyway. My concern was that other people would constantly comment on it being the 'girls' version in their opinion, and whilst I don't give a shit on their opinions, I don't want to get so frustrated with these comments that I end up losing my shit. My selfish thoughts are entirely with me being able to remain a law abiding non violent member of society.

[SleepFreeZone]

We don't take it out of the house so I can't comment on what other people think. My eldest used to push his pink pushchair to preschool and everyone used to think it was extremely cute, so I guess it depends on who might comment and whether you'd give a shit even if they did.