I only like potatoes when I am a girl

KnottyAuty · 18/04/2026 22:43

No idea what this is about - but I'm sending the grammar police.
That ! instead of a ? is too triggering 😂

moto748e · 18/04/2026 22:56

Is this a bit like

"Look Mummy, I'm a dinosaur"
"That's nice, dear"
"Look Mummy, I'm a choo-choo train"
"That's nice, dear"
"Look, Mummy, I'm a girl!"
"Quick, hubby, call the gender clinic!"

MarieDeGournay · 18/04/2026 23:25

I love that story, OP!
I want 'I only like potatoes when I am a girl' on a t-shirt😄

nauticant · 18/04/2026 23:37

I suppose we'll need to put together a chart of fruits and vegetables indicating whether they're boy coded or girl coded.

Hagnumber4 · 18/04/2026 23:43

I love little ones. My boy, when he was a little one (probably about three) had an absolute shit fit at me because he wanted to be a mummy and not a daddy when he was a grown up.

NinthBestOption · 18/04/2026 23:48

My Asd ds would have a fit because I 'wouldn't let him fly like batman or crawl up the wall like spiderman' - apparently this was me not gravity.

He did end up saying he was a girl because he wanted girls clothes, long hair, nail varnish, etc. Was a hard 6 years of this but we came out the other side and he's firmly a gc, flamboyant, gay, Asd boy. With a huge aversion to being asked his bloody pronouns.

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Blahblahblahabla · 19/04/2026 01:49

Well its a slight improvement from the ‘ do you have a penis mummy’…

no, only boys have penises. so you and daddy

you do have a penis

No, no I dont

Yes you do

no, I really dont

I think you do

nope, girls and women dont have penises

I KNOW YOU DO!!!

Runs round shouting ‘mummy has a penis’

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Blahblahblahabla · 19/04/2026 01:51

nauticant · 18/04/2026 23:37

I suppose we'll need to put together a chart of fruits and vegetables indicating whether they're boy coded or girl coded.

Tell me the boy vegetables.

If we make this chart theres a small hope he might actually eat a vegetable on his boy days

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EricTheHalfASleeve · 19/04/2026 02:00

NinthBestOption · 18/04/2026 23:48

My Asd ds would have a fit because I 'wouldn't let him fly like batman or crawl up the wall like spiderman' - apparently this was me not gravity.

He did end up saying he was a girl because he wanted girls clothes, long hair, nail varnish, etc. Was a hard 6 years of this but we came out the other side and he's firmly a gc, flamboyant, gay, Asd boy. With a huge aversion to being asked his bloody pronouns.

I initially read your last sentence as him 'having a huge aversion to being asked about potatoes'

Need to stop doom scrolling & go to sleep...

KnottyAuty · 19/04/2026 06:52

This one seems to have become fairly gendered in the last few years?!
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ADarkNight · 19/04/2026 07:21

Hagnumber4 · 18/04/2026 23:43

I love little ones. My boy, when he was a little one (probably about three) had an absolute shit fit at me because he wanted to be a mummy and not a daddy when he was a grown up.

Yep mine had a huge argument with his best friend (a girl) over who was the mummy of the baby doll they were pushing along. It was high stakes because only the mummy got to choose what the doll liked to drink and he was insistent it was orange juice.

"I should have been a girl because I want earrings" and many similar. He also wanted to grow up to give birth to babies (at least 7 apparently).

More than enough to trigger a genderist parent into hot footing to the Tavi. It makes me feel an utter chill to think I could have so horrifyingly broken the trust a little child puts in his parents. And that the NHS would have colluded. Even the moderate gender ideology believers would think his case acceptable because he'd end up being someone who said "I knew I was really a girl from my earliest memories".

He's now a very happy outward-looking teenager in a healthy body, continuing to be his lovely, non conformist self.

ButMyGoshDontYouJustKnowIt · 19/04/2026 07:57

I thought we hadn't gone hard down the route of blue for a boy etc for our eldest until DD arrived and everything was pink and purple and then DS decided pink and purple were brilliant and his favourite colours and he'd fight anyone for the pink plate or purple cup. Instead of insisting he was now a girl, everyone just went "oh, new baby sister, right?" and in a few months he was back to being a train or a dog or whatever.

He's 20 now and still has pink crocs though, but that's because he's also got brothers now, doesn't want them to steal his crocs and says toxic masculinity means they won't. A reverse uno, if you like.

SoftDay · 19/04/2026 08:14

This has triggered me into bad poetry.

Potatoes are life,
Whether you're from Cork or from Fife;
If you have a tuppence, spuds are go,
If you've a willy, tatties are never a "No";
Potatoes are life.

Is nothing safe?

MarieDeGournay · 19/04/2026 10:30

I'm loving all these stories about little ones' imaginations!

And I'm loving hearing about your understanding and love - maybe also a degree of frustration at times as in the veggie categorisation😄- letting your little ones' imaginations run free-range through the big ideas they were encountering for the first time, instead of dogmatising or pathologising❤

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Blahblahblahabla · 19/04/2026 11:01

SoftDay · 19/04/2026 08:14

This has triggered me into bad poetry.

Potatoes are life,
Whether you're from Cork or from Fife;
If you have a tuppence, spuds are go,
If you've a willy, tatties are never a "No";
Potatoes are life.

Is nothing safe?

Wins the thread 😂😂😂

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Blahblahblahabla · 19/04/2026 11:07

ButMyGoshDontYouJustKnowIt · 19/04/2026 07:57

I thought we hadn't gone hard down the route of blue for a boy etc for our eldest until DD arrived and everything was pink and purple and then DS decided pink and purple were brilliant and his favourite colours and he'd fight anyone for the pink plate or purple cup. Instead of insisting he was now a girl, everyone just went "oh, new baby sister, right?" and in a few months he was back to being a train or a dog or whatever.

He's 20 now and still has pink crocs though, but that's because he's also got brothers now, doesn't want them to steal his crocs and says toxic masculinity means they won't. A reverse uno, if you like.

This is very clever. The sign of a man comfortable with their masculinity.

Reminds me of the time when younger DP and I were dancing in a ruin bar basement in Budapest. Some guy kept coming up to me and harassing me even though it was clear I was with DP.

It was getting stupid and getting into fight territory. Quite aggressive. I was about to say let’s leave but this is a city we don’t know well and I didn’t like the circumstances. Leaving under conflict I also felt risky.

Anyway amidst the chaos didn’t have the chance to express all this to DP but he was clearly thinking the same. His solution. Pretend to be gay/bi and start proposition on the guy 😂

He fled a mile 😂😂😂

I was honestly like I think that’s the most manly thing you have ever done 😅

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Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 11:23

Blahblahblahabla · 19/04/2026 01:51

Tell me the boy vegetables.

If we make this chart theres a small hope he might actually eat a vegetable on his boy days

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Well i told my 3 sons that i don’t eat broccoli because “I’m allergic to it - all girls are”. They accepted that so does that make broccoli a boy vegetable?

PS I think they might be onto me now though (20, 18 & 14). So I’d say it’s perhaps limited to boys under 5/6.

MarieDeGournay · 19/04/2026 11:41

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 11:23

Well i told my 3 sons that i don’t eat broccoli because “I’m allergic to it - all girls are”. They accepted that so does that make broccoli a boy vegetable?

PS I think they might be onto me now though (20, 18 & 14). So I’d say it’s perhaps limited to boys under 5/6.

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I think this is becoming my very favourite thread😂

If you followed the very-well-informed men in women's sports threads,Tillow4ever, you could update your broccoli aversion by claiming to your boys that the brassicaceae receptor is only carried on the Y chromosome and as your karyotype is XX, you couldn't possibly eat the stuff🤓

ZeldaFighter · 19/04/2026 12:10

At the preschool playgroup we attended for years, it was quite common for the boys to wear the princess dresses to join in with their girl peers. We had more dressing up clothes for girls for a while. Mums would giggle and maybe joke about turning out to be gay but no one ever EVER thought it meant they were really a girl!

I just thought it meant they were normal human beings because who doesn't like bright, interesting, exciting colours and fabrics as a 3 year old???

INeedAPensieve · 19/04/2026 12:21

Blahblahblahabla · 18/04/2026 22:15

Words of a 3 yo boy (nearly 4 yo)

Do you not like your potatoes today?
No I don’t like potatoes.
You love potatoes what are you talking about! 😂
I only like potatoes when I am a girl.
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Woop woop send the gender police 👮‍♀️

Thankfully he lives in a sane family.

Thoughts with the not so lucky youngsters 😢

Tell me the thoughts of your young children trying to understand about boys and girls?

This sounds exactly like my 4 year old DS.

Apparently he will only like vegetables once he grows up into a man, although he does like cucumber right now but that's because he's a girl and girls like cucumber 🤣.

Current obsession is the Gladiators and he goes between wanting to grow up and be Giant (male) or Sabre (female). He wrote a valentine's card this year to both his male and female best friends at nursery. It's the sweetest, cutest age and their imaginations are amazing and it gives me the utter rage that some numpties will play along and pretend their child is a dinosaur but the moment it's the opposite sex they "affirm". Crazy. It is not real, these gender parents really fail their kids.

Tillow4ever · 19/04/2026 13:17

MarieDeGournay · 19/04/2026 11:41

I think this is becoming my very favourite thread😂

If you followed the very-well-informed men in women's sports threads,Tillow4ever, you could update your broccoli aversion by claiming to your boys that the brassicaceae receptor is only carried on the Y chromosome and as your karyotype is XX, you couldn't possibly eat the stuff🤓

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Brilliant! Thanks for the tip lol.

My husband always told me off for lying to the kids - I was determined they wouldn’t grow up as fussy as me, so a white lie that encouraged them to eat their veg wasn’t the worst thing in the world.

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Blahblahblahabla · 19/04/2026 17:44

INeedAPensieve · 19/04/2026 12:21

This sounds exactly like my 4 year old DS.

Apparently he will only like vegetables once he grows up into a man, although he does like cucumber right now but that's because he's a girl and girls like cucumber 🤣.

Current obsession is the Gladiators and he goes between wanting to grow up and be Giant (male) or Sabre (female). He wrote a valentine's card this year to both his male and female best friends at nursery. It's the sweetest, cutest age and their imaginations are amazing and it gives me the utter rage that some numpties will play along and pretend their child is a dinosaur but the moment it's the opposite sex they "affirm". Crazy. It is not real, these gender parents really fail their kids.

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Haha it is wild isn’t it.

I actually love this age.

Last week he declared his daddy was in prison. I said oh, daddy’s here.

…My other daddy

😭😭😭 ☠️

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MarieDeGournay · 19/04/2026 20:47

'My other daddy's in prison'😂😂😂
A friend of mine's little girl took to greeting every man they encountered in the supermarket with an ecstatic cry of 'DADDYYYY'!😁

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Blahblahblahabla · 19/04/2026 21:07

MarieDeGournay · 19/04/2026 20:47

'My other daddy's in prison'😂😂😂
A friend of mine's little girl took to greeting every man they encountered in the supermarket with an ecstatic cry of 'DADDYYYY'!😁

Omg haha 😅

The say it so convincingly too!

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