To think the NH museum shop letting girls down?

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So my daughter loves dinosaurs. I wanted to get her a dinosaur t-shirt for her birthday and went to the Natural History Museum online shop. But to me the vast majority of their kids clothes look stereotypically boyish (in terms of the colour palette and graphics). www.nhmshop.co.uk/toys-and-games/kids-clothes-and-accessories.html#4

She’s pretty gender heavy and I don’t reckon she’d like them.

This was a while ago but I’m now in the same position and just checked their shop again. It’s exactly the same. I get that you can say girls can wear any of the clothes they sell but, like I said, to me most of the colours and graphics align exactly with the “boys” section of most kids clothing shops. Kids aren’t stupid. They notice how things are pitched.

AIBU unreasonable or do you think their collection is a bit sexist?

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But there is a red one, a white one and a light blue one. Why not just buy them?
Or one of the white ones with coloured sleeves?

None of their t shirts look like they are heavily marketed at boys to me

They are in a range of primary colours.
This shirt can be personalised for any child:

www.nhmshop.co.uk/red-velociraptor-t-shirt-for-kids.html

I agree with pp that it sounds like you are complaining that they don’t have pink and sparkly dinosaur tops, which is gender stereotyping 🤷🏻‍♀️ Why can’t girls wear blue and red?

Sorry but it's probably you reinforcing the gender stereotype here. Just buy her the t shirt. She can hang it on her wall if she doesn't want to wear it.
Honestly there's bigger things to worry about in terms of feminism / gender etc

They have got dinosaur tshirts in navy, light blue, red, green, yellow, grey

What colours are girls allowed to wear then? Just pink?

What's wrong with the red one?

Or the navy one?

They're lovely t-shirts and I wouldn't bat an eye if a young girl was wearing either.

I sort of get what you mean. My DD lives dinosaurs. She wants to be an explorer or Paleontologist when she grows up. In the girls section, dinosaur items are cartoony or have a unicorn horn added. In the boys section, they are skeletons or more realistic looking. She gets stuff from both, but really wants a bright coloured top with a realistic looking dinosaur (and not massive on her because boys clothes are wider cut).

OK you can't customise them by colour because I checked. I wouldn't have a problem with the navy or the red or the light grey, on a girl? The navy one is actually personalised with a girls name. There isn't a huge selection to be fair but I think you're over thinking it a little... And the Red Christmas tree rex one doesn't look particularly masculine.

@BlueCornsihPixie girls can wear any colour they like but what if they don't like navy, light blue, red, green, yellow, grey?

Not selling pink glittery dinosaur t shirts is not sexist! It’s you who thinks that there are such things as “boy colours” and “girl colours”. There really aren’t.

As a dedicated biophile it drives me nuts that dinosaurs and animals in general (other than cute fluffy things) are marketed at boys.
I remember this being something that surprised me too (when I first came to the UK), because in my birth culture (also heavily gendered) animals and nature (including dinosaurs) are considered very "feminine" toys.

I don't understand why everyone is jumping on the put a T-shirt on a girl and it becomes a girls tshirt! How about the girls that want to look like girls but love dinosaurs, tractor and diggers. I want to celebrate my child's personality which is utterly pink, sparkles and spanner's!

@Ohjustboreoff this x 10000

redapple then they won't like any of the t-shirts NH offers. But that doesn't mean the t-shirts aren't for girls, or NH are in anyway letting girls down.

It just means one person doesn't like any of the t-shirts NH sell.

Yawn

I don't understand why everyone is jumping on the put a T-shirt on a girl and it becomes a girls tshirt!

Because that’s exactly how it works.

How about the girls that want to look like girls but love dinosaurs, tractor and diggers

What do, um, girls look like?

I am a girl who wants to "look like a girl" and I wear red! And navy! And grey! And orange! And green!

@BlueCornsihPixie but surely it can't hurt to cater to a wider range. Why do we see feminine as bad? can't someone be girly and like dino's?

They aren’t letting girls down, you are letting your girl down.

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I think you've just been a hypocrite about the colours? Ones that you consider for boys..any gender could wear. You've sort of argued against your own point.

The museum seem to be right here.

Pink isn't 'feminine'. Its just a colour, it can be worn by boys and girls.

Although having said that. There is nothing wrong with pink/glittery.

And it is I suppose annoying that stereotypically male things are seen as acceptable to sell, but stereotypically female things like pink or glittery would cause complaints as people on this thread have said.

Realistically as long as they market them all together as children's clothes then it shouldn't be a problem.

It doesn't seem gendered to me - navy, red, yellow, grey, green, white with red/blue sleeves, black, pale blue, oatmeal... that's a fair range of colours.

Is it because it's not in pastels? Because that's you letting girls down not the NHM - girls aren't restricted to pinks and purples. The range seems pretty gender-neutral rather than marketed towards either boys or girls.

redapple I think you might be right actually. OP was wrong in saying they were letting girls down, but there's no reason why they shouldn't stock t-shirts in the full range of colours

My son wants a pink dinosaur tshirt I've just bought him pink dinosaur wellies he currently has pink trainers and usually takes a pink cup to school

He will wear other colours but pink is a favourite

@Inebriati not just about the colour the whole design is unisex and we all know unisex means catering to a more male market.