Pink or blue fun guesses please

[Lexyness]

I would love some fun guesses as I am aware the nub isn’t noticeable from my dating scan! I have my anomaly scan tomorrow so really hoping to find out! Pink or blue?

The pink room = less pay is so tragic. I will tell that to my niece who has the pinkest room I’ve ever seen and is off to study mathematics at a top university. She will chuckle at you.

“It’s only one plastic straw, said 8 million people.”

Great for your niece. Doesn’t mean she will earn more over her career than her male equivalents though, who are less likely to take maternity leave or work part time. That’s the point. Society shows that children are set up before birth with potentially different outcomes and it starts with pink/blue divides. Look at it at population level and it makes a significant difference, even in countries with equal pay legislation. If that’s not something to worry about for our children, I don’t know why is.

Likewise boys, being encouraged to be tough and not cry etc. Have you seen male suicide rates recently?

It’s a toxic way of bringing up children.

The pink room = less pay is so tragic. I will tell that to my niece who has the pinkest room I’ve ever seen and is off to study mathematics at a top university. She will chuckle at you.

Thats great. But it's a fact that during her career your niece will be highly likely to come across people who believe that because she has a vagina she can't really be as good at maths as men, because 'men are more logical' or that because she is female she won't be as assertive as the men in her workplace, or if she is assertive she might be labelled as 'difficult'. She might find herself passed up for promotion, or not earning as much as her male counterparts. All of these things are happening to women in the work place, right now.

All because the people around her have been steeped in stereotypes about men and women, which will often have started, whilst still in the womb, with the idea that pink = girl and blue = boy.

If only there was a way that we could challenge those stereotypes.... Oh wait!

Pink was originally a boy's colour as was seen as stronger than blue. Can't recall when things changed.
My dd challenged our neighbour who said ds was screaming like a girl the other day. We don't tolerate any of that sexist nonsense here.
I personally think "gender" (ffs it's SEX) scans should be scrapped. They are unnecessary, can be wrong, and parents want them so they know whether to buy pink or blue. Stereotyping whilst still in utero.
Gender is toxic based on harmful sexist stereotypes.

Tbh in this day and age lgbt community is HUGE as is gender fluidity...Sex changes ect...So clearly pink & blue stereotypes dont supress anything...If people feel strongly about their sex not matching their genitals or their sexuality is of the same sex...then majority let it be known and are accepted in the world.Why should mums be supressed in how they wish to dress their child because people think its a stereotype?!Complete contradiction of having FREEDOM...Can a newborn baby say...i dont like pink...Or blue?NO...Its the parents choice at that point...as is it a persons choice and preferance to be a gender fluid...gay lesbian or transgender ect ect...My best freind is gay...and loved dinosaurs and blue and all things stereotypically boyish his whole life...Im straight and im not the fondest of pink stuff...Let people speak as they please...its her child...her choice of words...and her post.Supressing people from how they wish to speak and dress their child is just as bad as you are all saying the gender assumptions are...so you have no leg to stand on!

3boys

You don’t seem to understand very basic principles here, or the meaning of words. Humans can’t change sex. Sex is biologically determined. Deciding that be-penissed individuals should be dressed in blue to tell the world that they have a penis rather than a vagina is an odd decision to make if there’s no benefit to the child in the world knowing its sex.

Brains are shaped by experience. If boys are told they shouldn’t cry, that has an impact on their ability to identify and manage their emotions. If I tell my daughter - explicitly or not - that her lack of penis should stop her playing football I am directly limiting her experience based on her sex.

There shouldn’t be such a thing as gender in 2019. Babies should just be babies and children children, with equality of opportunity and experience. And parents have a responsibility to make that happen.