Oh fuck off... Superheroes for CIN

[TallulahTwinkletoes]

Just picked up DD from CM and have been told it's superhero day for children in need 'but the girls can just go as princesses'. Ermmm fuck off. If it's superhero day, she goes as a superhero. What do I do now? Buy a superhero outfit and probably exclude her from the girls or follow like a sheep and let her be a beautiful princess? I'm sure she would live both...

If someone said 'all the youthful optimism had been beaten out of them' would you recognize the phase or accuse someone of bringing violence in to a conversation? I'm fucking furious that you deliberately misconstrued everything in my post. A man can not dress like a princess in this world without be hassled for it. Because of people (like you) gender stereotyping people from childhood. It is basically living a transgender lifestyle. Whichis a big decision

*misrepresented.

Doubt it was misconstrued.

Sorry op for hijacking thread

Alice I absolutely understood what gerbil was saying and was baffled by your interpretation of it, tbh.

I didn't fully understand that post tbh , you cant really 'be furious' for someone getting it wrong, you need to take it down a few notches you're being a bit overly hostile.

My DD went to a nursery dress up day last year as Supergirl (she was the only non princess/fairy girl there - her twin sister went as a hairdresser ) and her key worker had the balls to say to me "lovely costume. But why didn't she want to come as a fairy or princess?". FFS. I loved that my DD was able to resist the peer pressure to like pink, want to be a princess etc, but when even the key worker is questioning her choice, what chance to girls have?

Have to say we've just had the CIN dress up day for their reception class and there were loads of girl superheroes and I thought nothing of it one way or the other. Also loads of other costumes - at the end of the day the kids just think of it as dress up day, it's the parents who get all involved in what they're actually wearing.

The children chose to go as superheroes at my son's school. Some of the girls went as cat woman. I didn't really notice what others did even though the school is tiny but tbf most had coats on as was raining. Some children wore uniform and Pudsey deliboppers . All the teachers were dressed as super heroes too.

School asked for a donation. I sent in a donation x 3 as I have three children and the older two are at secondary school and didn't do anything.

I would be complaining big time about letting the precious delicate girls go as princesses .

Loving the "accessorised with a frying pan" .

Superheroes only at our school, although the children were free to interpret that to people they saw as being heroes, and there were a few of those I saw amongst the older ones.

In Reception, where DD is, it was mainly the well known superheroes and there were plenty of girls dressed in Spiderman etc outfits. DD was going to go in hers but she hasn't worn it in a while and has taken against the padding, so refused. In the end, we adapted a Halloween costume into Batgirl with a bit of googling the logo, and she was very happy (at least until the logo fell off her cape at some point - my supergluing wasn't quite up to the job it appears). She was even happier when loads of her class and some of the teachers came as Batgirl too.

I think I did spot one or two princesses in the crowd, but I guess if a 4 or 5 year old decides he/she wants to be a princess and not a superhero, who is going to fight that battle at 8am?