to feel sad about people's perception of having sons.

[wanderingcloud]

A random conversation in the staffroom at work, general chit chat about children. The mother of two daughters who go to the same nursery as my sons said "I'm sure your boys are lovely but I'm SO glad I have girls! Boys are just horrid!" then other mum's of girls started chiming in with comments about how generally noisy/smelly/disgusting/horrible boys are and what a nightmare they must be. I laughed it off, my boys can be a handful. What under 3yr old isn't occasionally noisy and dirty? However, watching my two sons sitting quietly looking at books together this morning, I'm filled with sadness that people actually perceive them in such a negative way.

Haven't read the whole thread, but I'm SO glad I have teenage boys and not girls!

Ohhh good one on deleting the thicko twathead trolll Mumsnet, shame they aren't still here though! I'm so glad I didn't have a mother daughter bond actually. My mum could of turned out to be like you. Then where would that have left me?! An uneducated trolling twat that has no life but to troll parenting boards? Thank god for my Dad!

Ah OP, you just need a similar throwaway comment to fire back at her if this comes up again,

How about 'ah wait until they are older, all the drama with girls will wreck your head'

And as mom of two tween girls, I know what I'm talking about!!

YY to throw away comments...what about...

I wonder if you would be so about girls if you'd been blessed with two boys?

negative
narrow minded
naive
stereotypicalt
wrong
pig headed
lacking in insight
misguided

.....or any other that you think appropriate