to wonder why DS has been sent a 'girly' birthday card again?

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He is 2.

I appreciate the receiving a card, I really do, but... this couple (who are/were friends are my MIL...now deceased) did the same thing on his birthday last year.

This year's is purple with pink butterflies... last year's I don't remember well but it was pink with a picture of a girl doing something birthday-like.

Cards not received last-minute so it wasn't like they thought they'd miss the post and had to send something they already had at home. Also money (or rather, lack of) not an issue here.

Is it odd thing for them to do? Am I being unreasonably ungrateful?

Obstreperous why??
is it so it becomes all about you?

"Maybe the genderisation of playthings has absolutely nothing to do with half the schools in the country having no girls in their A level physics classes - but then again, maybe it does. No one else ever bought K'nex or lego or meccano for my DD, it was mostly barbies and polly pockets. "

I just felt very sad when I read that.

I feel very sad when children don't get any toys for their birthday. Getting toys that are too gender specific? Poor children.

I feel sad when children die, have no food are ill....
color of toys
no

So minor crimes should always be overlooked because more serious ones exist?

I feel sad about donkeys though. Poor old donkeys, always with the sad face.

"crime" tis hardly a crime

Are the wrong A levels and pink toys crimes now? Do Scotland Yard know?

pink or blue is a crime? OMG I missed this.....

tbh I loved fire engines I was little and thats exactly what my family bought me other than 2 dolls in all my child hood. But then fire engines are red....

I know it isn't a crime, I was making an analogy

I am now worried about Donkeys....
are donkeys girlie.
will I be arrested for being girlie??

only if your donkey has a pink collar threesocks

oh no
my donkey is all metal
he has tatts and piercings

And I am sad about the abscence of girs from physics A levels, I have a dd, why is it weird to feel sad about that?

But because there are children who get no toys somehow excludes me from also feeling sad about this too?

Donkeys are asexual. They are the only asexual mammal living on land.

But your DD can do physics? They're not excluding her for being a girl?

and you can disagree without resorting to mockery and/or sarcastic posts

I wasn't being sarcastic. You can disagree without being dramatic.

MrsM if you DD was not too keen on Lego perhaps you should try getting her the girls version instead. It comes in a pink box and everything so she may find that more appealing

I really do not see a link.....
girl plays with doll.......can't do physics....
nah can't see it

thank you

Well, irrespective of that fact boys can and do like the colours purple and pink and butterflies...it can be a swine finding "boy" birthday cards. Then again,they may just pick up the first card they see with the appropriate number on it.

No usual you can't anymore. It's all illegal.

Feeling sad is dramatic?

Ok, well I can see what kind of reasoned debate you're interested in here, so I'll bow out now and get myself to bed.

It's absolutely fine by me if you don't see anything wrong with the issue - it's how you feel and I'm not trying to change your mind.

I don't see why the reverse shouldn't apply?