To think the 'pinkification' of girls is only going to do damage in the long run?

[katykuns]

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10075913/Meet-the-mother-who-hides-pink-toys-from-her-daughter-and-uses-blue-boy-diapers.html

Very feminine, pretty clothes, in specific colours. Toys that encourage vanity, motherhood, no real aspirations... AIBU to think that if this doesn't stop, that we are actually going to go backwards? Obviously parental influence plays a strong part, and most women do not reinforce the idea of the 1950s housewife is something to aspire to, but surely these gender stereotypes are just unnecessary?

I also think the article should acknowledge boys that don't fall under the 'rough, mischievous, mud riddled' stereotype that I see in toys aimed at boys.

They wouldn't manufacture these things if there wasn't a market though would they? If people didn't buy the Lego Friends range for example, I imagine it would disappear off the shelves pretty quickly.

Personally, I don't see the problem with the colour pink. There is a variety of stuff out there (clothes and toys), so if you don't want to buy anything pink the simple solution is not to surely?

Our secondary school uniform was brown and yellow, boys and girls alike as it is. But why do girls still have to wear skirts? IMO they are impractical. .

I've always been a girly girl, but love the warmth and freedom that < stretch waist-banded> trousers give me. Or when I was younger and wore very tight stretch trousers with a fixed waist band.

I love pink flowers in the garden, but some shades of pink enhance my compexion and others drain it of colour in clothes. Do still have a pair of pink trousers, but think they will be for the charity shops this year, only because they are too flared at the bottom

DH would never have worn pink, and he looked stunningly manly/handsome in his denim shirt and trousers or black shirt and denim trousers. Tucked into his trousers with a belt. sigh.