FFS Sainsbury's, so near and yet so far

[noblegiraffe]

Supergirl is one of very few female superheroes. I loved her when I was young and would have loved a Supergirl dressing up outfit. I'd absolutely buy one for my DD.

I do not recall her outfit being pink.

Actually since Supergirl (and all other superheroines) are now depicted with rippling muscles in comic book art, why don't they add the fake muscles/six pack to her costume?

I feel I'm being deliberately contentious even thinking that

Current TV Supergirl isn't muscley. I'm quite pleased to see that she isn't particularly large of chest either. Comic book heroines tend to have massive boobs.

I suppose that the equivalent of the fake muscles on the boy outfits could be padding up top for the girls.

I bought the Supergirl outfit from Sainsburys last year. It was definitly red then! How odd and ridiculous.

MrsS1990 I would disagree with you. DD (6) says that she 'even likes black better than pink!'. Lots of her friends don't mind pink as much as she does but when they come for tea none of them ever, ever, choose the pink plate or cup or bowl when they get to choose their coloured plates and cups for eating.

Completely agree there is nothing wrong with pink (personally I am not a fan in general) but this ridiculous pinkification of stuff is ridiculous. I bought DD a red London bus shape sorter thing when she was a baby from ELC - I got told at the till 'hold on I'll get you the girls one' as they had a pink one upstairs - they looked most confused when I was insistent that DD would be perfectly happy with a red bus because you know all the buses (where we live) are red!

I find the costume kind of touching: it represents the struggle every little girl, and woman, faces: wanting to be strong in her own right, and wanting to adopt feminine norms in order to fit in and be accepted.

You know - like when little girls say "I want to be a ninja warrior princess!", or grown woman are like "I want to be a hig-powered exec and praised for my beauty!"

It's like a nylon representation of a social struggle, that costume.