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Original poster

its. a. BIB!

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LifeIsButtercream · 01/02/2011 11:41

Sorry please excuse my raging PMT!

Friend and her little boy came round for lunch, little boy is a couple of months younger than DD (who is 21m). We sat them both at DD's little table and I grabbed two of the catch-all bibs that hang around on the end of my counter. Just grabbed the top two without - turned out to be purple and pink.

I went to pop them on the toddlers while my friend filled her son's cup, then she turns to me and says "Sorry can he have a blue one? He's a boy, I don't like him to wear a girl's bib"

I dug out a green one, she was happy with that. Didn't say anything (only recently made friends, didn't want to ruffle feathers and as the mum of a DD, I'm unfamiliar with gender colour preferences). But later thought "it's a bib, it won't make his nuts drop off if her wears a 'girls colour' one!"

Strange, no? Please feel free to enlighten me!

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KnittedBreast · 01/02/2011 11:42

is it her first child? shes a knob, her baby dousnt know or care. my sons loves pink and hes nearly 5.

CMOTdibbler · 01/02/2011 11:43

Shes a loon

BeerTricksPotter · 01/02/2011 11:43

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junkcollector · 01/02/2011 11:44

That's quite sad actually. Not only is it gender stereotypingbut it's really limiting his experience of the physical world. "Oh you can't enjoy the colours purple and pink because you are a boy", wierd!

kreecherlivesupstairs · 01/02/2011 11:44

Perhaps she is a member of 'his nuts will drop off if he wears a girly colour' sect.
Of course YANBU, it is a ridiculous and out dated idea that girls wear pink and boys wear blue.
My lovley DH really was adamant that he wouldn't wear a pink tie for a wedding about 15 years ago. He will now willingly wear a lovely cerise polo shirt I got him.
He is gonad intacto.

kittybuttoon · 01/02/2011 11:45

Often wondered why my DH won't even let me hold a pink shirt against him, when out shopping.

It's his bloody mother's fault!

Grrr!

Plumm · 01/02/2011 11:46

Loon! (your fruend, not you)

FreudianSlippery · 01/02/2011 11:46

"it's a bib, it won't make his nuts drop off if her wears a 'girls colour' one!"

PMSL!

YANBU that's hilarious.

WimpleOfTheBallet · 01/02/2011 11:47

Reminds me of a mate who asked me if I had a spare pair f socks for her 10 month old..he'd peed on his own...s I brught the smallest I had..(my dd is 2) and they were purple stripey ones...she was like "Have you got any white or blue ones?"

Hmm
emmab5 · 01/02/2011 11:48

LOL YADNBU. My 4 year old DS1 often plays dressing up with DD - he mostly wears pink tutus and high heels and I believe that his nut are still intact :o

ShatnersBassoon · 01/02/2011 11:49

That little boy had a lucky escape. Thank god his mother has a bit more forethought than LifeIsButtercream.

Journey · 01/02/2011 11:49

I wouldn't want my DS wearing a pink bib. I would of thought it was odd that you gave the pink one to my DS rather than the purple one; which is a bit more neutral.

wigglesrock · 01/02/2011 11:51

My bil asked nursery to stop his little boy playing with a pram that had been left out!!!!

charitygirl · 01/02/2011 11:51

Why wouldn't you want your DS wearing a pink bib? Could your DD wear something blie?

charitygirl · 01/02/2011 11:52

blue

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LifeIsButtercream · 01/02/2011 11:52

I did want to warn his mum that he was sitting on a pink chair......

Evil me wanted to give him DD's 'fairy princess' bowl' but gave him the Fireman Sam one instead (which I should probably throw away, as its not in a 'girls colour')

Wink
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pjmama · 01/02/2011 11:53

You should have just laughed out loud, then stopped and said "oh sorry, were you being serious?"

BornToFolk · 01/02/2011 11:54

Journey, why wouldn't you want your DS to wear a pink bib? Not being snarky, I honestly want to know.

putthekettleon · 01/02/2011 11:55

my nephew was wearing a pink sleepsuit the other day, SIL sees nothing wrong in recycling his older sister's clothes and I agree!

Next time you go to her house request a pink flowery one for your DD Grin

WimpleOfTheBallet · 01/02/2011 11:55

JOurney why? he's a baby! He wouldn't know and it's a colour ffs not a comment on his masculinity!

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LifeIsButtercream · 01/02/2011 11:56

Journey - I hadn't put bibs on either of them at that point - was just taking them to the table. I didn't give the colours a second thought!

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mumcha · 01/02/2011 11:57

yanbu thats the most stupid thing ive heard and ive 4 boys.Ive gave my son a pink dummy before ,as wee were out shopping and he had lost his.His nuts r still there lol.

BluddyMoFo · 01/02/2011 11:58

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LifeOfKate · 01/02/2011 11:59

Crazy Confused

I wouldn't have refused it for my DS (13 months), in fact, he actually has a few pink babygros after I accidentally dyed them in the wash... they are good babygros, I'm not wasting them!

I haven't got pink clothing trouble from DH, he actively likes wearing pink and wore a pink shirt and tie for our wedding (colour picked by him) :o

mumcha · 01/02/2011 12:02

There is nothing wrong with boys wearing pink my boys have pink shirts an tops which they love even the 11yr old .