Ideation that girl babies are better than boy babies.

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In my family it’s very heavily opinionated that boy babies are an ‘aww better luck next time’ and girl babies are an amazing gift.

My sisters were saying the other day that when they see a gender reveal on Facebook they don’t tend to like or react to the boy ones but the girls they feel excited for.

I don’t really see the difference .

Is there something I’m missing?

I really hope that’s a joke. It’s totally chance.

I had two boys then fell pregnant. I had a million comments about how I'd tried for a girl. Lo and behold had a girl. She's amazing of course but no different imo, babies are just beautiful. I actually always thought I'd be a mum of boys! But no preference for me or DH. If course NOONE believes that. Sister has two boys and is desperate for a girl to the extent she suffered gender disappointment when she had her second son. they are now pregnant again without the real (immediate) means to support another child. God help her if it's a boy. I really don't get it.

What the hell is a lime tampon?!

I’ve not experienced this but that awful, that has really upset me. What a horrid mindset. All that matters is a healthy child

Ideation? Is that a newly invented word or a typo?

Alas, girl babies grow up into girl teenagers. And they are the devil incarnate.

I have girls and boys and tbh I secretly always hope for a girl, but have never been disappointed that it’s a boy either.

Thats just me though and I wouldn’t congratulate anyone any less because it was a boy!

Yes 100% this goes on

Not mine! All my teens have been lovely so far (5 down 4 to go)

Ideation is a word.

@Catlover1705 my mil says that all the fucking time. She had two sons. FWIW I have two sons and she actually MOANED when we announced my youngest son had been born because SHE was desperate for a girl. She never bonded with him. I now have a daughter and hilariously she ignores her almost as much as my son's once the glamour of her being born was over. I have very little respect for her, as does my DH due to her treatment of our children. Stupid woman.

So many things woman do to sway - there is some science in it, but probably doesn’t do much. There’s a big community that do it, either woman with multiple boys already or want a girl after a boy etc.

Alas, girl babies grow up into girl teenagers. And they are the devil incarnate.

More stereotyping. Lots of teen girls are perfectly lovely.

I once overheard a woman in a hospital being congratulated by her friend for just having found out she was carrying a boy. The friend said. "Don't. I'm p off. I wanted a girl" I was shocked as I had never heard such a thing before. Surely if you get pregnant you know there is a 50-50 chance of having either one (unless they tell you you're having a cat, of course).

*Couldn't resist it. No offence. And no GC tags, please.

Sick of these posts - I’ve had 2 girls and have had nothing but disparaging comments for my “poor husband” and in at least 3/4 of the world boys are prized - which is why we now have a catastrophic gender unbalance in places like India/China/Pakistan!

There's a massive difference between expressing preferences and
*wishing boys on people you dislike
*feeling genuine pity for people with sons
*disliking males so much you'd never want to birth one
*even worse, feeling like and getting pregnant anyway despite feeling you'll never be happy if it's a boy

9 girls! Wow

To extent I do get the preference for girls. Male violence is a huge problem. A good number of women will have experienced it first hand. It wouldn't exactly make you jump for joy over the prospect of a boy. Biology matters. So does environment. My friends with 3 boys are all deeply sad to have not gotten a daughter. Friends with 3 girls don't mind at all.

What the hell is a lime tampon?!

I think it's a cocktail?

@SleepingStandingUp i can’t help feeling pity. I’m not trying to be mean and I’d never say it obviously. I can’t help what I feel. And I feel pity if someone had a boy because they’re just not as good as girls in my eyes.

I didn't know such backward people existed. Do you have a male partner?

This thread has made me laugh. I was so scared that I’d have a girl and had to find out as if I was I wanted to be prepared, luckily I had a boy and it was all fine, I think I’d have cried at the scan if it was a girl. Obviously I know it’s bad to care either way but after this thread I’d say it’s horses for courses.

Do you have daughters?

Will you feel sorry for them if they have sons?

Are you in a heterosexual relationship? Does he knows he's inferior to you, thst being a man he could never be as good as you?

Why even have kids when the risk of an inferior child is 50/50? Or did you do early gender scans with a view to abort?

I didn't know such backward people existed. Do you have a male partner?

no need to be insulting. No I don’t have a male partner, why?