its. a. BIB!

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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!

There is an 8 month difference between my DS and my twin sisters. We all lived together (that was fun).

We borrowed a lot of baby stuff whilst DS was younger as they were just growing out of things.

DS lived in a lemon and pink moses basket (infact there were 2), we used pink/neutral tiny baby vests/babygro's and even at 18m if we unexpectedly stayed at my mum s he would borrow their pink pj's.

Pink is his all time favourite colour... but he plays with cars, trains, gets muddy and runs around like a mad man so after all that he is still somehow a boy and his penis has not fallen off...

Your friend is an eejit!

In a deliberate attempt to defy my "no plastic noisy crap toys"...my sister provides my ds with a My Little Pony collection. Which to my dismay he loves.

Candleshoe - you have brought up a good point which I would like to clarify my position on. I don't object to little girls liking pink and wanting to wear pink clothes etc, just as I wouldn't object to any boy wanting to wear pink clothes, or purple clothes, or green clothes with red spots. If the next baby is a DD and wants to wear pink clothes, I will probably buy them.
What I do object to is insisting on dressing tiny babies in the 'correct' colours according to gender... they don't care and have no idea what gender even is, never mind which one they are! The child asking to be dressed in something specific is completely different to projecting your own ideas about gender onto them. Besides, I think pink is an attractive colour to small children of either gender (as demonstrated by this thread!), so I am fairly sure that there is such a clamour from little girls to want pink items due to society telling them that they must like pink and they are basically not a girl if they don't.
Is it wrong that I am a bit nostalgic for the time when they used to dress boys and girls the same until they were about 3 yo.. there is a lovely photo of my grandad aged about 2 in a white dress :)