To think putting a baby boy in pink is a little odd?

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Hi, this post isn't to point fingers, I just genuinely want to know if I'm the only one who thinks like this.

A friend of mine is putting her newborn baby boy in his sisters old sleepsuites etc and says it's just newborn clothing, why does it matter.
I'm sorry but I wouldn't even think of putting a boy in girls things, and I don't just mean 'pink', I mean properly girly.

AIBU? I can't see why you'd do it, and she isn't strapped for cash by any stretch of the imagination. It just doesn't sit right with me.

Dd has just turned 1. I could dress her from head to toe in pink frills and lace and a matching diamanté headband. People Who see her would still say "oh what a lovely little lad".
She just looks like a boy. In a dress. What would the op make of us if she passed us on the street?

Being branded girl is very VERY clearly inferior to being branded boy

Really? Not in my experience. Boys are a disappointment, women with just boys are to be pitied, a daughter is the prize. People go to extreme lengths to make sure you know the baby is a girl, frilly headbands on bald little heads, bows and sparkles and bright pink prams.

Some of the other points I agree with, but no, being branded a girl is often of immense importance and abadge of honour.

People always think DD is a boy too....although sometimes she is wearing her (self-selected) car t-shirt...still you would think the (again self-selected) pink hair grips would give the game away...

Maybe our DD's have extra testosterone and will become champion athletes?

urethra "being branded a girl is often of immense importance and a badge of honour"

Really?? As in "you throw like a girl" is a badge of honour?

Or..."are you crying like a girl?" is in fact a statement that the boy is excelling in reaching the high level emotional engagement achieved by girls and should therefore be proud??

Seriously - listen to some children playing sometime. It will be very apparent to you that being accused of doing something associated with girls is the almost the worst insult that can be laid on a boy.

Because: SEXISM.

I think you've missed my point entirely. Sexism is a LOT more complicated than that, try to see it from other angles.

People put their girls in big frilly headbands because they have bought into the idea that a girls primary attribute is their attractiveness. They enslave themselves to the concept of beauty over all else...so of course they 'enjoy' passing the slavery on to the next generation! To do otherwise would be to admit they have wasted their lives on something that the other half of the population only cared about in passing while they were busy building their careers.

I agree - some people have a strange compulsion to advertise the fact they have a daughter by swathing the child in pink, lace, ribbons etc, not to mention those hilariously awful headbands.
Why put a headband on a bald baby other than to point out she is female? These headbands perform no purpose other than to flag up the sex of the baby, unlike a hat/bonnet which keeps baby warm. They look uncomfortable too.

And why does it matter? Why do some feel they must make their child's sex obvious to the point of thinking that boys should wear blue and girls should wear pink? Does this thinking extend to other areas, so that all men must have short hair and all women must have long hair Is a woman with facial hair any less of a woman because she has a charateristic that is more commonly associated with men?

What are girls and boys clothes exactly? A dress fine but males wear versions of a skirt in Scotland and in the Mid East etc.

Anatomically, skirts make far more sense for men who are supposed to keep things cool down there.

Even worse than those headbands - BABY WIGS. Because nobody will know your baby is a girl if they don't have flowing tresses.

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I think the people who plaster their daughters in pink frills prize girls because it's more like having your very own ickle wickle dolly to play dress up with. Daddy's Little Princess that you can infantilise, pet and keep dependent on you like a little pet dog for as long as possible

I remember getting told off by a relative for dressing my newborn daughter in a dark blue sleepsuit..apparently it didn't make her look pretty..
My son wore loads of his sisters hand me downs and now he sometimes wears pink and has shoulder length hair-I often get accused of 'obviously wanting another girl'

More people think it is better to have a boy as I have discovered after having two girls then recently a baby boy. Often a cultural thing though I have a friend with two girls who would not have another in case she got a boy. Weird!

My eldest DD (4) likes to play with boys things and dress in blue and no one cares but I suspect if she were a boy in a dress I would get comments.