Rather sexist dressing-up costumes

Although from many of the comments, right wing people think its got something to do with transgenderism

This has just been shared online; John Lewis has become the first UK retailer to remove gender labels from its children’s clothing.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/john-lewis-boys-girls-clothing-labels-gender-neutral-unisex-children-a7925336.html

Nice one, John Lewis.

DS1 had a fancy dress party at nursery last week. There's a photo of the eight children in his group, three boys and five girls. The boys are dressed as an astronaut, a pirate and a cowboy. All five girls are dressed as princesses.

It wasn't this bad 30 years ago, my little girl is 27 and she was not surrounded by a sea of pink and glitter everywhere she went. Clothes buying was easier. Segregation by gender is more severe now in a child's world.

I feel like we just haven't made any progress at all in the last 30 years.

I'm not even sure it was that bad 30 years ago.

I mean, the sexism is so blatant, I can't even.

Also, interesting that two of the girl costumes are things that do not even exist, while a third is something that does not exist in the way it is used for dressing up (princess).

What's the lesson from that? Boys exist, girls are mythical creatures?

(And the princess and fairy are pretty much exchangeable, you could wear exactly the same costume for both!)

The girl costumes were labeled "fantasy", apparently to distract from the sexism, but the nurse doesn't fit the pattern.
Well, unless you are talking about the sex fantasies of adult men.

I'm sure plenty of people will say to just buy the police outfit for a girl if they want it, what's the problem? But it is the insidious impression that these outfits are segregated by sex, that one set is suitable for boys and one set for girls. It sends a message to any child that sees it, and children are very good at picking up these cues from what they see around them.

The nurse uniform is oddly out of date too. The police/army/firefighter uniforms all look roughly like the actual uniforms worn by people in those occupations these days. Whereas no modern nurse dresses like that at all, with the fussy hat and so on. Most nurses I've seen recently wear trousers and a uniform shirt/tunic.

All of the boys costumes could be unisex, but I wonder how many boys would reject them if a girl were photographed wearing them.

I feel like we just haven't made any progress at all in the last 30 years.