"It's a dress not a ruddy lifestyle statement!... So lay off the pink-bashing"
Nah, sorry, disagree, and will 'bash' pink as much as I want.
It is practically a lifestyle statement - on top of all the pink clothes, then there's the pink buggy, pink car seat pink cushions, even bloody pink books, as they get older, it's pink nintendo ds, all the way up to pink furry dice and pink furry steering wheel covers.
And all it represents - to me the odd bit of pink is one thing, but I find the excessive rosy splurge to be a crowing trophy of baby one-upmanship. And garish and yuk yuk yuk. Oh, and horrible boring. pink again. yawn.
You might find the 'sludge' for boys 'depressing', but as others have said, often not much else available, b. not every part of their lives has to be dominated by their gender. (Saying that, I don't have any slugde coloured clothes for my dss. True, they almost always waer jeans, but their t shirts are mostly bright colours red, green, orange etc.) It does irritate me a lot actually. I hate pink, and all it represents and stand by that. I cannot get my head round why people buy endless pink. They what happens if they later have a boy? Stick the boy in a bright pink car seat, buggy or have to replace everything? Seems short sighted (unless absolutely sure no more kids, then it's just tacky anyway imo)
if dd turned around aged 3 and asked for a pink dress, fine, I'd probably let her have it if she wanted it. If she wnted every single thing to be pink, from the ceiling in her bedroom, her spoon at breakfast down to her knickers and everything inbetween, I'd be saying 'no' quite a lot.