to think that a little boy with a pink hairclip

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and long flowing hair half way down his back

is farking ridiculous?

Not wanting to be illiberal or anything, long hair is fashionable and I see a lot of mops on little boys but this is decidedly

GIRLY

flowing down his back in a curley, prom queen way, I should add.

Are you sure it wasn't a girl?

absolutely. I know his name.

YABU

if a small boy cannot be free to have long hair if he wants then that is a real shame

my nephew has long blonde hair, and sometimes has it in a bobble. he is beautiful.

DS often went to nursery with a hair clip in his fringe when his hair got too long as it was a mare getting his hair cut

i suppose you thikn boys should not push prams or play with dolls either?

That's a poncey idiotic way to dress a boy.

Nope, I'm all for pushing prams and playing with dolls - so back off quietly now lulumama

This boy is TOO YOUNG to decide about his hair.

He doesn't speak yet.

to tight would never do that. i get al the equal op and stuff but he ll get called a puff

its irrelevant frankly

if mum and boy are happy so be it

(mum of an 8 year old boy with ringlets and 5 yr old who loves pink lol)

YABU, leave him alone fgs. It has no affect on you at all.

A puff? powder or puff the magic dragon?

oh you mean poof

ffs.

its the least insuulting insult there is, bar 'you're a girl'( as my ds's classmates call each other)

If someone calls a child who can't speak yet a "puff" then, frankly, they are the one with the problem.

It's unfair if the boy doesn't like to be recognised as a girl....

i'll back off then

you asked if you were being unreasonable, you are in my opinion

do you know, i thikn i am going to avoid this topic from now on!

I don't care what children's hair is like (actually not quite true, those hideous shaved heads on mere babes, especially with tramlines cut in, make me absolutely shudder and I suppose I also am a bit quietly intolerant of people who try and signal their own coolness - pah! - via their children) but what does make me roll my eyes is when little boys have Goldilocks hair and the aforementioned pink clip and their parents get all huffy when they are mistaken for a girl. I have seen that happen.

Surely only an issue if everybody mistakes him for a girl.

Would it improve matters if his hairclip was blue?

For what it is worth I don't like long hair on boys but if others do then good luck to them. I also don't like little boys with virtually shaved heads either.

Not that I am difficult to please you understand.

Shall we all circle round the OP chanting, "You are right, let's jeer at this misguided mother who's being so cruel to her poor boy"?

Or can we disagree with you, OP?

YABU

Pink is just a colour to most children. And who is he hurting?

There is nothing wrong with a bit of hair on a boy surely!

And as for the clip well I have to let my one year old do the most ridiculous things sometimes in order to get out of the house. This morning it was let her wear a pair of her sister's knickers over her dungarees. It was either that or be late for school.

He's too young to speak and yet you are judging his appearance? If he gets stick when older it'll be from kids of those who have attitudes like yours.

You freak. YABVU

no, you cannot disagree. you have to back off

how old is he?
maybe there's a cultural reason for not cutting his hair yet (not for the pink hairclip though, I suspect )

you're quite new to MN aren't you op?

tis your ritual flaming

(and the lesson of only post on aibu if you can take being told yes)