FFS Sainsbury's, so near and yet so far

I find the costume kind of touching: it represents the struggle every little girl, and woman, faces: wanting to be strong in her own right, and wanting to adopt feminine norms in order to fit in and be accepted.

You know - like when little girls say "I want to be a ninja warrior princess!", or grown woman are like "I want to be a hig-powered exec and praised for my beauty!"

It's like a nylon representation of a social struggle, that costume.

MrsS1990 I would disagree with you. DD (6) says that she 'even likes black better than pink!'. Lots of her friends don't mind pink as much as she does but when they come for tea none of them ever, ever, choose the pink plate or cup or bowl when they get to choose their coloured plates and cups for eating.

Completely agree there is nothing wrong with pink (personally I am not a fan in general) but this ridiculous pinkification of stuff is ridiculous. I bought DD a red London bus shape sorter thing when she was a baby from ELC - I got told at the till 'hold on I'll get you the girls one' as they had a pink one upstairs - they looked most confused when I was insistent that DD would be perfectly happy with a red bus because you know all the buses (where we live) are red!

I bought the Supergirl outfit from Sainsburys last year. It was definitly red then! How odd and ridiculous.

Actually since Supergirl (and all other superheroines) are now depicted with rippling muscles in comic book art, why don't they add the fake muscles/six pack to her costume?

I feel I'm being deliberately contentious even thinking that

Yes, you're right. They are unnecessary though, I don't buy costumes with them on if I can possibly avoid it.

The muscles make it look more like Superman though, the pink less like Supergirl.

Yup.

Which is weird.

Well, they do add those fake muscles that you described earlier. Don't know if it makes them more "boy friendly"?

Yes, dd2 is 10 months old and has very little in the way of hair at the moment, her pushchair is red too. And if she's not wearing obviously girly/pink clothes lots of people assume she's a boy "look at him isn't he lovely" etc. It doesn't bother me and I don't often have the heart to correct people as they're just being nice, but it does really highlight how much influence colours have on us in terms of gender.

The new Supergirl is shaping up to be much 'darker' than I thought. Still not a patch on Flash though.

When I was a kid I remember being irritated that Supergirl was a girl, not a woman and Superman wasn't Superboy. Plus flying around in a skirt? Why didn't she get trousers?

This is it for me - it's not that there's anything wrong with pink - DS2 is in a pink phase - he has a bright pink t-shirt with a smiling ice cream on it, and when wearing it, everyone assumes he's a girl, not a problem, he doesn't care, I don't care, but that's how strong the colour stuff has got.

DS1 isn't as into pink, but does get a bit disappointed that the costumes that are aimed at him don't have any glitter/metallic like the ones with skirts (and he's old enough now that he doesn't want to wear a skirt - can't blame him, neither do I) - and as a result chose the Captain Phasma, silver stormtrooper costume.

It's not that anything's bad, but, that it would be nice for everyone to have a little of everything rather than this hard line between pink/sparkly/skirt and dark/plain/trousers

I don't dislike pink, DD1 likes pink after all. But like pp I dislike how so many clothes aimed at girls just have to be pink or glittery. I saw a lovely pair of trainers for DD the other day, but the glittery toe cap put me off. Partly because of personal taste, I don't like glitter, and partly because I hate how it's so difficult to find girls clothes that aren't pink/glittery/frilly. I've noticed that the boys section has a much wider variety of colours more often than not, whereas the girls section is mostly pinks, purples, maybe with the odd splash of yellow/blue/red it's frustrating.

There's absolutely no need for them to change the colour of the Supergirl costume, they've already added a frilly skirt. It's pointless.

Are you the same poster outraged about the Sainsbury's "Girl" bag -- OP?

I was in Sainsburys the other day and didn't see the Supergirl costume but saw this batgirl costume which apart from a bit of sparkle I thought excellently non-twee.

I also noticed online when looking up said costume that all their generic dressing up stuff is described as "kids" - not boys or girls. E.g. Kids Darth Vader costume, Kids Elsa dress etc.

That is rubbish.
It's supposed to be the costume of a recognised character, why do they have to mess up the colours?

Pink isn't an awful colour per se. I'm sure there are human beings who like it well enough. It's the 'pinkification' of everything aimed at girls that gets me. Especially when firms change the established colour of an item to pink.

That's a horrible shade of pink as well.

They kindly added the fluffy pink netting to remind her of what kind of thoughts she must have.

God forbid she strays into dangerous male territory and starts making her own decisions or forming her own opinions or wanting financial control of her own life.

Sainsbos have only our best interests at heart.

That just looks shit and wrong.

Tick- think most little girls would disagree

Won de why it's Supergirl not Superwoman.

Pink is never prettier.

Asda sell a Supergirl costume with the red. They also do a Batgirl one which is ace.