Girls in princess costumes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Believe it’s what’s being sold to them, OP. It’s more the Disney culture than anything. My mom was saying that in the 1950’s there were “hobos”, ghosts, Addams Family and Munsters characters but very few Cinderella’s because they only saw Cinderella once in the theater. My mom has great pictures of herself dressed as Paul McCartney and her siblings as John, George and Ringo. Once she went as cousin It.

I was not as Princess orientated as my DD is because I didn’t watch as much princess crap.

This is my gripe with Disney princesses, and Spiderman, or any other corporate/commercial character that's out there. Parents are the gatekeepers, kids don't have a biological need/desire to dress like a Disney princess or Batman, and posters who don't acknowledge this are annoying. Sure, your kid will grow out of it, but how did your kid grow into it?

OP is also very annoying.

If you have to ask such a stupid question then you obviously don't have kids. People like you and OP are annoying.

[Anonymous]

Everyone is a progressive until their son wants to wear a princess dress to daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is a progressive until their son wants to wear a princess dress to daycare.

Eh, that's fine too. A bunch of boys did when my DD was in daycare (she was 4 when the first Frozen was HUGE). All the kids fought over who got to be Elsa.

Now they are 11 and the girls no longer dress like princesses, neither do the boys, (though they may be gay or lesbian, who knows) and they're all fine. This is just such a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

No reaction because I have kids and know what it means to them.

My son picked a spider man costume w the muscles, I was like ugh maybe not best for imagery, big bulky. I came to learn he loved it because that’s where spider man hides his web and shoots it out. Kids all loved it, their imagination is beautiful let it be.

[Anonymous]

Who cares? My DDs have princess costumes and do taekwondo. My princesses could kick your ass, OP.

[Anonymous]

I am curious OP also has a visceral reaction to little boys dressing up like macho superheroes - Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and the like?

[Anonymous]

The princess thing lasts maybe 5 years max and then they're over it. It's really not a big deal, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Believe it’s what’s being sold to them, OP. It’s more the Disney culture than anything. My mom was saying that in the 1950’s there were “hobos”, ghosts, Addams Family and Munsters characters but very few Cinderella’s because they only saw Cinderella once in the theater. My mom has great pictures of herself dressed as Paul McCartney and her siblings as John, George and Ringo. Once she went as cousin It.

I was not as Princess orientated as my DD is because I didn’t watch as much princess crap.

This is my gripe with Disney princesses, and Spiderman, or any other corporate/commercial character that's out there. Parents are the gatekeepers, kids don't have a biological need/desire to dress like a Disney princess or Batman, and posters who don't acknowledge this are annoying. Sure, your kid will grow out of it, but how did your kid grow into it?

OP is also very annoying.

Kids don't have a biological need to do much of anything. I don't gatekeep things that aren't harmful, why would I?

You missed the point, but okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Believe it’s what’s being sold to them, OP. It’s more the Disney culture than anything. My mom was saying that in the 1950’s there were “hobos”, ghosts, Addams Family and Munsters characters but very few Cinderella’s because they only saw Cinderella once in the theater. My mom has great pictures of herself dressed as Paul McCartney and her siblings as John, George and Ringo. Once she went as cousin It.

I was not as Princess orientated as my DD is because I didn’t watch as much princess crap.

This is my gripe with Disney princesses, and Spiderman, or any other corporate/commercial character that's out there. Parents are the gatekeepers, kids don't have a biological need/desire to dress like a Disney princess or Batman, and posters who don't acknowledge this are annoying. Sure, your kid will grow out of it, but how did your kid grow into it?

OP is also very annoying.

Kids don't have a biological need to do much of anything. I don't gatekeep things that aren't harmful, why would I?

You missed the point, but okay.

Don't blame me because you weren't saying anything interesting or of consequence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Believe it’s what’s being sold to them, OP. It’s more the Disney culture than anything. My mom was saying that in the 1950’s there were “hobos”, ghosts, Addams Family and Munsters characters but very few Cinderella’s because they only saw Cinderella once in the theater. My mom has great pictures of herself dressed as Paul McCartney and her siblings as John, George and Ringo. Once she went as cousin It.

I was not as Princess orientated as my DD is because I didn’t watch as much princess crap.

This is my gripe with Disney princesses, and Spiderman, or any other corporate/commercial character that's out there. Parents are the gatekeepers, kids don't have a biological need/desire to dress like a Disney princess or Batman, and posters who don't acknowledge this are annoying. Sure, your kid will grow out of it, but how did your kid grow into it?

OP is also very annoying.

If you have to ask such a stupid question then you obviously don't have kids. People like you and OP are annoying.

Wrong, but go ahead and hide behind the ol "you obviously don't have kids" thing if it makes you feel safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Believe it’s what’s being sold to them, OP. It’s more the Disney culture than anything. My mom was saying that in the 1950’s there were “hobos”, ghosts, Addams Family and Munsters characters but very few Cinderella’s because they only saw Cinderella once in the theater. My mom has great pictures of herself dressed as Paul McCartney and her siblings as John, George and Ringo. Once she went as cousin It.

I was not as Princess orientated as my DD is because I didn’t watch as much princess crap.

This is my gripe with Disney princesses, and Spiderman, or any other corporate/commercial character that's out there. Parents are the gatekeepers, kids don't have a biological need/desire to dress like a Disney princess or Batman, and posters who don't acknowledge this are annoying. Sure, your kid will grow out of it, but how did your kid grow into it?

OP is also very annoying.

Kids don't have a biological need to do much of anything. I don't gatekeep things that aren't harmful, why would I?

You missed the point, but okay.

Don't blame me because you weren't saying anything interesting or of consequence.

I know, which is why you bothered responding, isn't it? Girl, bye.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being viscerally annoyed by little girls' interests is not as progressive as you think it is.

I actually don’t think it’s progressive at all. Isn’t the progressive thing to embrace the princess costumes? But I can’t help but hate them. As PP said, I have to hide my reaction and let DD do as she pleases.

You can only support princess costumes if worn by a boy. That’s the progressive way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is a progressive until their son wants to wear a princess dress to daycare.

This. The conventional wisdom seems to be to push girls into sports and away from girly things on the thinking that this is progressive. But you don't see anyone pushing boys into anything perceived as girly. It's absurd. We don't have to put the thumb on the scale in either direction. We could just let our kids be whatever they are, whether that lines up with biology or not. There is a fair amount of scientific support for the fact that boys tend to be attracted to typically boy things (trucks, balls) and girl are attracted to typically girl things -- all before nurture has had its say. That's neither right nor wrong. Let the girls wear their tiaras or kick their soccer balls (or both!) as they prefer. And let the boys do the same!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Believe it’s what’s being sold to them, OP. It’s more the Disney culture than anything. My mom was saying that in the 1950’s there were “hobos”, ghosts, Addams Family and Munsters characters but very few Cinderella’s because they only saw Cinderella once in the theater. My mom has great pictures of herself dressed as Paul McCartney and her siblings as John, George and Ringo. Once she went as cousin It.

I was not as Princess orientated as my DD is because I didn’t watch as much princess crap.

This is my gripe with Disney princesses, and Spiderman, or any other corporate/commercial character that's out there. Parents are the gatekeepers, kids don't have a biological need/desire to dress like a Disney princess or Batman, and posters who don't acknowledge this are annoying. Sure, your kid will grow out of it, but how did your kid grow into it?

OP is also very annoying.

If you have to ask such a stupid question then you obviously don't have kids. People like you and OP are annoying.

I missed who is who in this exchange but to the gatekeeper poster you’re an idiot and you obviously don’t have kids.

I’m the mom to a boy who loves Spider-Man - here’s how it happened, loves bugs learns about black widow spiders in a national parks book, sees spiderwebs thinks they’re the coolest, starts imaginary play that he’s a spider of all spiders and builds spiderwebs out of string and duplos, still thinks bugs are awesome. Asks for black and red clothing to look like a spider does cool spider jumps. We’re at the library and one day he runs up and says he saw a book about a spider boy like him, it was a young readers Miles Morales and now for Halloween he wanted a cool spider costume like miles morales.

So no, you don’t have kids and you don’t know what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Believe it’s what’s being sold to them, OP. It’s more the Disney culture than anything. My mom was saying that in the 1950’s there were “hobos”, ghosts, Addams Family and Munsters characters but very few Cinderella’s because they only saw Cinderella once in the theater. My mom has great pictures of herself dressed as Paul McCartney and her siblings as John, George and Ringo. Once she went as cousin It.

I was not as Princess orientated as my DD is because I didn’t watch as much princess crap.

This is my gripe with Disney princesses, and Spiderman, or any other corporate/commercial character that's out there. Parents are the gatekeepers, kids don't have a biological need/desire to dress like a Disney princess or Batman, and posters who don't acknowledge this are annoying. Sure, your kid will grow out of it, but how did your kid grow into it?

OP is also very annoying.

If you have to ask such a stupid question then you obviously don't have kids. People like you and OP are annoying.

I missed who is who in this exchange but to the gatekeeper poster you’re an idiot and you obviously don’t have kids.

I’m the mom to a boy who loves Spider-Man - here’s how it happened, loves bugs learns about black widow spiders in a national parks book, sees spiderwebs thinks they’re the coolest, starts imaginary play that he’s a spider of all spiders and builds spiderwebs out of string and duplos, still thinks bugs are awesome. Asks for black and red clothing to look like a spider does cool spider jumps. We’re at the library and one day he runs up and says he saw a book about a spider boy like him, it was a young readers Miles Morales and now for Halloween he wanted a cool spider costume like miles morales.

So no, you don’t have kids and you don’t know what you’re talking about.

No no no, PP is the proud mother of one 27-month-old and she has all the answers!