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.

Evans your post about your DH made me laugh .

Why is it odd? I can afford to buy new clothes but why the waste? I would reuse them. People who judge is shallow. This is hardly the same as sending a 3yo boy to preschool in his sister's dresses.

Why is it odd? I can afford to buy new clothes but why the waste? I would reuse them. People who judge is shallow. This is hardly the same as sending a 3yo boy to preschool in his sister's dresses.

What is it about the sheer girliness that bothers you on a baby boy ? I'm personally not into girliness on myself but wouldn't bother me if a boy or man was wearing girlie clothing or a dress or makeup

I put DS2 into his sister's old pink babygros back in the 90s, so this definitely isn't a new MN fad. I could see no conceivable reason why I should refuse to use perfectly good clothes.

OP, do you think men in pink shirts are odd?

THESE BABIES SHOULD BE FORCED TO WEAR FALSE MOUSTACHES TO CLEARLY INDICATE THEIR GENDER. OR TIES.

wouldn't bother me if a boy or man was wearing girlie clothing or a dress or makeup

Are you sure? Imagine David Cameron in a dress, speaking to parliament. Nothing outrageous - just a sensible dress or skirt suit. You wouldn't find that ridiculous?

I would, because I've been programmed by society to believe that men are belittling themselves by doing or wearing anything normally associated with women. And until that view changes we're fighting a losing battle for real equality.

Mitzimaybe - I complained about just that earlier on the thread about the card non choice in Tesco's

Back to the subject of clothes, in addition to his lovely pink shirt, dh also regularly wears a skirt : his bum looks great in it and he's always getting complimented ok, it's a kilt but who cares?

Tbh i would probably rate David Cameron a bit more highly if he wore a dress or a skirt. Lots of other cultures men do wear what we would view as a skirt or a dress.

latebreakfast exactly ! We have been programmed. I try to see past this. Behaving like a girl should not be viewed as a bad thing.

Actually, Eddie Izzard chose to come up and help campaign for Scottish Labour with Jim Murphy during the election campaign in a very fetching skirt suit, heels and a lovely shade of red lipstick

but there again, look what happened to Labour in Scotland

Not what i said was it Evans? I said once more it's one of those things I have yet to see

I would have done if my ds had a older sister. It's easier and cheaper than buying a load of things for a newborn.

I try not to raise my ds to be so dominated by specific gender things. He is dressed like a typical boy most of the time, but he also has pink pjs he wanted, pink Sofia cups, Frozen plates, doll and pushchair etc.

He is still a right boisteous and stereotypical boy with cars and football but he does it because he chooses not because that is all he is given.

I will point out that at no point did my child's penis actually fall off and it was what we refer to in weirdo lentil-weaving gender-neutral-land as "a joke".

"but as a pp said when baby clothes are cheap as chips in primark it seems unnecessary to dress boys in feminine clothes."

Why? Honest question.

Op are you worried that something negative will be caused by the child wearing something frilly?

"I could spend some money (not a lot admittedly, but some) in Primark and buy some boy-coded clothes, or I could put these clothes I already have on this baby, but I'd better not do the latter because ..." why?

yabu op.
but saying that I never dressed my son in girls clothes(most likely cos I had a boy first) he never wanted to be dressed as a girl at anytime.

When my two nieces and nephew were babies my sister was deluged with pink/blue clothes from parents and in-laws and she rebelled by only ever clothing the babies in yellow, brown, orange, red, white or green. Would that be ok with you OP?

"he never wanted to be dressed as a girl at anytime."

What, even when he was a baby? The OP is talking about an infant.

DS1 only really became aware of things being "for" boys or girls when he was about 3 or 4 (DS2 at 2.5 is still blithely unaware) and spent a while being quite rigid about it, he's getting less so at 5.5 having realized that a lot of his female friends don't wear pink or like "girly" things and they are still, nonetheless, girls.

When I was pregnant we decided against finding out the sex of the baby as neither of us could honestly see what difference it would make. I couldn't see how the genitals of the baby was going to make a difference to how much I loved them or how I treated them. Also I wanted to avoid gifts of gendered baby wear. as it was I never got that far, and now never will, but that's another story

A friend of mine bought white baby grows and dyed them all black.

Baby clothes might be "cheap as chips" in Primark but if you still have perfectly serviceable baby clothes even if they are the "wrong" colour why would you need to buy more ?

I hate this throw-away society that we've become where everything has to be new (and that's before you even start on the discussion about WHY the clothes in Primark are cheap as chips.... )

" baby clothes are cheap as chips in primark "

that is because they are made in sweatshops where half blind toddlers nurse their bleeding finger tips.
Not really joking actually. Can you really justify your 'cheap as chips' clothes? hate that expression anyway.