Am I a the only person that thinks those girl baby bows are horrific?

[noirmum]

I’ve been wondering if anyone agrees but these baby bows are so freaking HORRIBLE!! They’re so ugly and giant and makes the baby girl look stupid. Nobody needs to know the gender of your baby that bad. Babies don’t know where their feet are never mind what gender they are meaning they don’t care what gender they get called. If you really wanted to be obvious about their gender you’d buy girly clothes and girly toys which just proves that the bows are literally just to use the baby as an aesthetic!! At least it points out the mothers that care more about their baby looking aesthetically pleasing than them being comfy in a nice little hat and outfit. If my baby is a girl I hope to God nobody gifts me a bow bigger than her newborn head.

Yes . Little mini bow ties at Christmas or weddings. Flat caps with bands because they think they look cute.

It's not sex-speciific.

Why are we only “forcing stereotypes” when talking about traditionally “feminine” things? Traditional masculine clothing for both boys and girls is the only acceptable thing? Ridiculous. No keyboard warrior ever argues as hard for putting boys in pink fgs.

I think bows are cute. And I think a lot of people on here are sheep who just want to fit in with what the “cool” things to say on MN are. Live your own life and give other people’s choices less thought and you’ll be much happier.

😂That's very true. Some threads are created with nastier intent than others - this one is shameful but there are plenty of others that fall into this category.

Makes the baby's head look like an Easter egg

May I ask (I probably shouldn’t)… the bows are hideous, but if someone wants to dress their baby girl in stereotypical girls clothes, or their son in typical boys clothes, why is that such a problem?

Totally Temu tack!
But dressing your baby up is such fun so each to their own.

Chavvy.

Not my cup of tea at all. Distracts from the actual baby because your attention is drawn to that more than the little toot. Agree with the poster who said about newborns and young baby’s being in soft fabrics and baby-grows.

As a mum who couldn't resist to put little one inch bunches in my daughter's hair from when she was about 6 months old, I can't really pass judgement.

My baby doesn’t wear anything like that or traditional “girly” clothes or toys. If someone thinks she’s a boy I correct them and say she’s a girl. I don’t see why people feel the need to shove them in stereotypical gendered crap.

What a lot of hyperbole OP. Horrific? The baby looks 'stupid'? Nice. The bows are not to your taste, fine. But I don't really know where youre going with all this 'gender' business? Of course a baby girl doesn't know what sex she is yet. However her mother does and why should she not want other people to know the sex of her child? Most parents signal their child's sex to the world and the child themselves to some extent or another, through choice of name, use of appropriate pronouns, and more often than not, choice of hairstyles and clothes. Obviously if this goes too far into harmful stereotyping then it's a problem. But as you say, a baby is too young to care.

Ha ha yes I totally agree.

This!

I think they look a little bit like Easter Eggs, but I also appreciate that they are a sign that this is a much-loved baby.

Omg-looks like Hilda Ogden! (Showing my age here)😂

OK. Sounds just as bad as the the bows. Poor kids.

What? So when I dressed my children in plain babygros back in the early 90s that was a sign that my children weren't much loved?

But the bows obviously they are being used to symbolise a baby's gender. They don't symbolise sex at all. They're not a picture of a vulva, are they?

Most people still dress their girls in 'girls clothes' and their boys in 'boys clothes', maybe not so obvious as a bow, but still clearly stereotypically as boys of girls, whether they believe in gender or not. Believing in gender is the bigger issue.

Gah!
Bow ties and suits on baby boys so they look like spivs -

I mean, if someone is that desperate for complete strangers to know what type of genitalia their baby has, they could just get a babygro with ‘CUNT’ printed on it…
is my general thought when seeing babies in these monstrosities!

Each to their own. I'd like to think that no one that uses these leaves their baby unattended in them, they just find them cute.

They're dreadful, since you're asking.

I don't like the huge ones but my dd looked really cute in one, a small fabric headband type. Only for a couple of pictures though, they fall off constantly and are not practical at all.
The poster who said they're abit council, you absolute snob !

Exactly what I was going to mention...such a bizarre trend!

Practically spat my tea out I was so busy shouting “yes! this!” On reading your comment!