Every bloody thing you go to buy, you have to choose whether you want the 'girls' version (pink and yellow and gross) or the 'boys' version (blue and grey and gross).
My friend bought a pink potty for her dd 3 years ago, and has just gone and bought a blue potty for her ds now. WTF?
I'm not really bothered about my ds having supposedly girly things (the poor lad sleeps in pink flowery babygros often enough because we're not going to replace perfectly good dd hand-downs ), but mostly I just want to buy nice, normal coloured things. Stripey things, and spotty things.
I'm not suggesting that boys should wear dresses, or that they should all wear unisex mao suits, but why the feck do we need to have gender variation on knives and forks? On ready beds? I'm struggling to think of something where you don't have to choose whether to get the boys or girls version.
Why do we even have such strong gender variation in such young children?
And who got to decide that butterflys are for girls and buses are for boys? It's so random.