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Gender Neutrality

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ajhillmmu · 30/10/2018 10:57

Hi, I am a final year student at Manchester Metropolitan University. I am in the process of writing my dissertation and was wondering if you could help!? I am exploring gender neutral children’s clothing and would love to hear your opinions. I will be looking at whether parents agree or disagree with brands such as John Lewis, Clarks and Gap removing boys and girls labelling from many of their products. Alongside this, I will be discovering if gender neutral children’s clothing leads to wider life choices.
Furthermore, I will be speaking to retailers to investigate their motives behind their decisions, are they displaying impressive morals or is it a sales-based decision?
If you are a parent that has a traditional view and believe that ‘boys are boys and girls are girls’ or are raising your child as gender fluid, then I would love to hear from you.
It would also help me a great deal if anyone, parent or otherwise, with strong opinions regarding this subject could get in touch…
Whatever your opinion, it will be invaluable to my research and of course remain strictly anonymous.
If you think you can help at all, please leave a comment on this post or privately message me.
Thank you in advance, (Sorry for the long paragraph!!)
Annie x

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Magpiefeather · 31/10/2018 13:26

@cuppaqueen

Sorry, I just read my comment back and agree I don’t quite make sense.

I think what I was trying to say is that “gender” basically should not be even a thing at all with kids clothing - even gender neutral. So I don’t believe there should be “girls” “boys” and “gender neutral” as categories, there should just be clothes. In all colours. If shops or websites need to group things, they could group by clothing type : trousers, t shirts, dresses for example.

Cuppaqueen · 31/10/2018 16:18

@Magpiefeather I 100% agree with you, then! 

SuburbanRhonda · 31/10/2018 16:22

also contains some furious feminists who bridle at people who haven't thought through their gender politics.

As well as a fair few idiots who think the word “feminist” is an insult.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

Beamur · 31/10/2018 18:54

I was shopping today with my DD and she brought up the subject of gender neutral kids clothes (she's 11) and she asked why shops seem to think gender neutral = grey and not a wider range of colours.

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