to be bothered by all these references to girl's names and girl's clothes and toys and etc.....

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I can't shrug it off, I can't take it lightly. Maybe I need to grow up and grow a thicker skin but it really bothers me! Why is it even an issue for boys to wear tights? Why can't girls wear little tops and things from the boy's section? Why do we keep asking these basic Qs over and over? And WHY on earth do people keep making links between sexuality and gender when you're talking about CHILDREN. Never mind later on, how can a little boy in pink even have his sexuality (which is set in stone from bloody birth) magically switched because of the colour he likes, or someone else has put him in.
Wearing a dress = traditionally feminine. Liking boys = traditionally feminine (not necessarily, even!). Why people would even think that one thing, one "concession", would lead to a slippery slope, I don't know.

I'm putting this all very clumsily but I don't know. I don't want to answer threads re: these sorts of topics because I do find it upsetting. I would really like to hear reasons for having distinct boy's/girl's names, that's the most puzzling thing. Anyone?

DD (11 months) has lots of boys trousers/jeans etc. I am constantly reminding DH when he says "oh that's a pretty dress" that she is crawling and needs knee protection not a dress up round her waist with her nappy showing

She has mostly generic coloured toys and if there is a pink version and a "unisex" colored version I go for the "unisex".

I think it will be an on-going thing trying to get DH to my way of thinking though until she can speak for herself. He wanted to get her white ballet shoe type things yesterday with ribbons on for winter. She ended up with brown velcro shoes!

I did meet a man called Beverly once.

The poster who wanted cat clothes for her ds - could you buy some plain t shirts and fabric pens and design your own? I think they have this sort of thing on not on the highstreet too, your childs drawing on a tshirt.
The other day I was shopping withmy mum and she pointed out a small truck she bought my nephew last xmas - she said if I had a boy she would get the same. Strange as when I was a nipper she bought me 'boys toys' like thomas the tank engine and a doll that was marketed for boys called My Buddy.