To buy 3 year old DD dinosaurs for Christmas?

Respond to her with 'Had no idea you were such a sexist lol' and a laughing emoji.

Oh God, its sex not gender. If it was truly gender,there would be 892 choices to cover each gender and more added each day.

And do the girls gravitate to pink and dolls or are they subtly pushed towards pink and dolls?
Do boys really all want to play football and dinosaur or are they told that pink is girly?

When I grew up I was a tomboy, I wore coded boy clothes and played with coded boys toys and boy games. And no one cared. Not a single person told my mum I should wear dresses and play with dolls. And if they had she would have ignored them. Which is as it should be.
Let children be children, let them play with any toy that they like. As long as its age appropriate.

The question the thread asks is:

Am I being unreasonable to buy my 3 year old daughter dinosaurs for Christmas?

The answer is so obvious as to make the question ridiculous.

I have an adult sized nighty with dinosaurs on, I thought it looked like a good fun design. Boys or girls can enjoy them.

My did had the most beautiful dinosaur swimsuit when she was little. We all mourned it when she grew out if it because it was just so fucking cool!

You are paying attention to and cultivating her interests, which she will only appreciate and thank you for when she’s older. Dinosaurs are educational too!

Sounds like your friend either has some very outdated gendered views on what little girls or little boys “should” play with - or if she has her own dc then perhaps this reflects some insecurity / inadequacy she feels (maybe she feels she is not encouraging a wide range of interests, hasn’t started her Christmas shopping yet, has been less thoughtful about her gift buying etc).

Either way, ultimately her opinion is irrelevant - it’s DD that counts. When you see her little face on Christmas Day all thoughts of snidey remarks will be forgotten.

This post is nuts. Who cares if they're being "judged" by some idiot with a clearly nonsense position?

Being judged is nothing to give two hoots about unless it's by a judge, and they have the power to send you down. Being judged by the dinosaur police... not so much.

One of the greatest ones was Mary Anning, who was responsible for a large number of "firsts" in finding previously unknown dinosaurs

Pedant alert for pub trivia quizzes - Mary Anning did not discover any dinosaurs at all, @Allergictoironing .

Dinosaurs are land reptiles with an upright stance (like birds have) rather than the sprawling stance of lizards and crocodilians.
Anning discovered marine reptiles - her discoveries of ichthyosaurs are famous. If it’s a pterosaur or a marine reptile, it’s not a dinosaur.

Palaeontology is for everyone , OP. Why not pick her up a fossil as part of her Christmas presents? I loved having one as a small child (I used to bury it a lot and “dig it up” to wild applause from my toys)

I have a knitted dinosaur jumper and a cardigan with dinosaur buttons.

I forget how old DD1 was when she got a box of dinosaurs to play with, but she's almost 5 and DD2 is 2.5 and they both regularly play with their dinosaurs, sometimes making up stories with bluey, peppa or paw patrol figures too! DD2 also has dinosaur pjs and I'm considering redecorating her bedroom soon to dinosaurs

I think you might be me, from two years in the future! (I am 42, but everything else you said absolutely applies to me.)

I'm incredibly childish a girl who's pushing 50, I would be thrilled to get anything dinosaur related for Christmas. Your friend is bonkers.

😂😂😂😂😂

Exactly what sprung to mind.

OP, when she's a bit bigger she might like to hear about Mary Anning.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/mary-anning-unsung-hero.html

It’s this sort of shit that starts the path of girls only doing certain subjects or girls having to be one sort of type etc. my youngest loved dinosaurs at 3 - really enjoyed books about them, toys etc. she also loves a doll. Oldest was never particularly interested- she was more drawn to space. It’s so important to feed and cultivate the things they like and have a natural interest in.

Ffs, of course not. Dd wanted Brio train tracks and dinosaurs for her 3rd birthday!

It would only be unreasonable NOT to buy a 3 year old dinosaurs for Christmas.

Dinosaurs are the best.

There is a skeleton of one in the National History Museum and they are huge!
I mean REALLY huge.

It will take tons and tons of wrapping paper and it definitely won't fit under your tree.

Friend commented that it was "funny" and "a bit odd" to buy them for a girl.

What the fucking fuck????

Your friend needs her head examined, what a totally ignorant and facile idiot.

HTH.

Buy your dd dinosaurs and ditch the weird friend.

Come on surely you know the answer to this!

Your friend is a dick.

Absolutely
Go for it

Your friend is weird. Dinosaurs are amazing whether you’re a girl or a boy and it’s so fun and educational.

My daughter got married in a dress covered with dinosaurs, with dinosaur shoes, and dinosaurs in her bouquet and the wedding party button holes.

Why are you even thinking about this 😀 of course its fine!! There are many Women paleontologists and palentobiologists out there - its a fascinating world for young children.

Your friend’s the odd one!