Feminist baby clothes?

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My little girl arrives in January and I'm excited to raise a strong and feminist baby. (I would have done this with a boy too.) I'd love to get her a few clothes with a feminist message on but can't find any. Any ideas?

I'm being rude about this thread because it's beyond silly. It makes a mockery of real issues of oppression, inequality and misogyny.

We have to be serious all the time do we? is that an FWR rule no one shared with me. No one is claiming it is serious. If someone posted on an LGBT board about wanting a 'my mummies love me' vest, would that be equally scorn worthy? I don't understand the hostility.

it really doesn't. It's one tiny minor thing that a she want to have a chat about in the correct sub forum. Feminism chat. Not feminist super intelligent clever bollocks radfemolgy. Feminist chat.

She wants to buy her baby some fucking clothes. That doesn't mean she doesn't care about oppression, inequality and misogyny. How is this different buying baby clothes with some other hobby or interest she has on them?

I am starting to wonder if all these "feminist are mean" posts are about the actual FWR posters

If someone posted on an LGBT board about wanting a 'my mummies love me' vest,

Very good point.

Actually this thread isn't nearly as daft as I thought it was going to be! Also I sort of get where the OP is coming from - when my boys were babies I really hated the idea of them wearing anything with military overtones ... Fast forward a decade and a half and they're both covered in skulls and battering each other with rubber pole arms ... ( There's probably some sort of moral there somewhere )

Avoid pink/sparkles/any mention of princesses/sweatshop tat and you're sorted ...

Congratulations, by the way ...

Can I just check, basically is everyone saying if you dress your baby daughter in pink and sparkles, you can't be a feminist?? And so your daughter won't be a feminist either?

No Disco, we aren't.

I'm not keen on slogany clothes. Buy some white/gender neutral babygros and then if she has a little brother he can wear them as well. Simples.

I am now wanting a wonder woman caped T-shirt like the ones on the Mighty Girl website though!

Hmm but a lot of people are saying avoid pink, sparkles, Disney if you want to make a feminist statement. Just seems a bit odd to me. Surely you dress your child in what suits them and then when they are a bit older what they like?

Can I just check, basically is everyone saying if you dress your baby daughter in pink and sparkles, you can't be a feminist?? And so your daughter won't be a feminist either?

no, just that it would be making an obvious feminist statement as if you don't dress your daughter in pink and sparkles every fucker will assume it's a boy wearing a green dress.

Of course what we wear and how we dress our children says something - just not necessarily the obvious.

I don't dislike pink but I absolutely hate how you cannot escape it when you are trying to buy something for girls.
And yes, I had a huge problem with navy/camouflage being the prevailing colour choices for my boy babies.

I've seen some brilliant slogans that made me LOL, but don't 'get' "child process"

Disney is sexist as fuck. SO that's why people avoid Disney.

Disco - with mine it was more like I felt in a weird way I'd be contaminating them if I put them in the little camoflage outfits my SIL had bought for them. Babies only want to be warm and comfy, they don't give a monkey's about what the clothes signify to adults.

I really, really wish I'd got them one of those The Force is strong in this one thingies though, Disney or not ...

Usedtobe I agree with you on the camouflage stuff. But then I still don't dress my daughter in denim and she's 2, I just don't like it on babies! I should probably get over that soon!

I like these RSC Fierce t-shirts. Sadly I am not little and it would look like a piss take, so I cannot have one myself, or I would .

But they are pink…

Aren't they a fabulous pink? I do like that their whole range (there are other slogans) and nice bright colours and not wishy-washy pastels.

Ah, ok, I've looked again, it's Not Pink, it's cerise. Phew!
That's ok then: I can still like them AND be a feminist

There are some great vests: this and this. Sorry, getting sidetracked.

This thread is odd.

My DD is an aeronautical engineer. She was in the minority at university and now again that she is working. She is what I think feminism is.

She had her ears pierced as baby. She wore dresses and pink. She still wears high heels and dresses and leopard print and sparkles. She wears make up every day and does her hair, and none of that takes away from her achievements.

Feminism isn't about what clothes you wear. Bring your baby up to love maths and physics and to be able to walk into a room of 30 men and hold her own. You don't need special clothes for that.

You sound like you're reading a different thread to me Ann. No one is saying dressing a baby in pink stops them being a feminist.

I like these RSC Fierce t-shirts. Sadly I am not little and it would look like a piss take, so I cannot have one myself, or I would

I am short and fierce but would require a large, does that make me little enough?

You sound like you're reading a different thread to me Ann. No one is saying dressing a baby in pink stops them being a feminist.

Well that is what I got from it :)

The first post mentions pink clothes then someone says- If you avoid all-over-pink you are making a feminist statement IME.

And someone else says Avoid pink/sparkles/any mention of princesses/sweatshop tat and you're sorted ...

"Surely you dress your child in what suits them"

Err, babies suit all baby clothes, surely?