Gender stereotypes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A fellow preschool mom was telling me that she loves that her boys are into princesses and my little pony, she even bought one of her sons Elsa shoes. She admitted that she would be sad if her daughter(infant) gets into princesses. I have a boy and a girl and I just cannot wrap my head around this. Why is it great when a 4yr old boy wants to be a princess but not okay for a 4yr old little girl.

The thing to understand is that contemporary liberals hate boys and men. There is nothing more to understand about it. They are caught up in some sort of mass psychosis that prevents them from seeing how awful they have become and instead causes them to believe that they are "good people."

Oh, yes, we hate boys and men----gosh, is that the best you can do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up (girl) wearing solid color turtlenecks and denim overalls, etc. The boys wore the same outfits. It is odd to me how there are such gendered clothing styles starting at a young age. E.g., my 2yo son wears comfortable jeans and my 2yo niece is in tight jeggings. Maybe this is part of what's making everyone more likely to try to differentiate between sexes.

Girls are the winner here because jeggings with spandex are WAY more comfortable than kids denim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up (girl) wearing solid color turtlenecks and denim overalls, etc. The boys wore the same outfits. It is odd to me how there are such gendered clothing styles starting at a young age. E.g., my 2yo son wears comfortable jeans and my 2yo niece is in tight jeggings. Maybe this is part of what's making everyone more likely to try to differentiate between sexes.

Girls are the winner here because jeggings with spandex are WAY more comfortable than kids denim.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up (girl) wearing solid color turtlenecks and denim overalls, etc. The boys wore the same outfits. It is odd to me how there are such gendered clothing styles starting at a young age. E.g., my 2yo son wears comfortable jeans and my 2yo niece is in tight jeggings. Maybe this is part of what's making everyone more likely to try to differentiate between sexes.

Girls are the winner here because jeggings with spandex are WAY more comfortable than kids denim.

At 2 I don't see why the boys couldn't wear spandex jeggings too? At 5 it is a little odd for a boy. At 16, they're wearing it again because 'fashion'.

[Anonymous]

I call bullshit.

All my kids of various genders have access to both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine toys.


They play with what they want and wear what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up (girl) wearing solid color turtlenecks and denim overalls, etc. The boys wore the same outfits. It is odd to me how there are such gendered clothing styles starting at a young age. E.g., my 2yo son wears comfortable jeans and my 2yo niece is in tight jeggings. Maybe this is part of what's making everyone more likely to try to differentiate between sexes.

Girls are the winner here because jeggings with spandex are WAY more comfortable than kids denim.

At 2 I don't see why the boys couldn't wear spandex jeggings too? At 5 it is a little odd for a boy. At 16, they're wearing it again because 'fashion'.

That would be fine.

I am speaking to those moms who find jeggings on girls so objectionable, simply because they are girly, and who think that putting their girls in jeans is morally superior since jeans are traditionally more masculine or gender neutral.

If they were honest with themselves and rational, they would put their girls (and boys if they so choose) in the jeggings because stretchy, fitted, cotton-spandex jeggings with an elastic waist band are far superior and way more comfortable than little boy jeans, which are stiff, heavy, and usually have those buttons inside to adjust the waist, which are uncomfortable and dig into the belly, or if they are elastic they have the really thick gathers, which also dig into the waist.

But jeans are morally superior and leggings are signs of a character fault, because anything feminine is bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up (girl) wearing solid color turtlenecks and denim overalls, etc. The boys wore the same outfits. It is odd to me how there are such gendered clothing styles starting at a young age. E.g., my 2yo son wears comfortable jeans and my 2yo niece is in tight jeggings. Maybe this is part of what's making everyone more likely to try to differentiate between sexes.

Girls are the winner here because jeggings with spandex are WAY more comfortable than kids denim.

At 2 I don't see why the boys couldn't wear spandex jeggings too? At 5 it is a little odd for a boy. At 16, they're wearing it again because 'fashion'.

That would be fine.

I am speaking to those moms who find jeggings on girls so objectionable, simply because they are girly, and who think that putting their girls in jeans is morally superior since jeans are traditionally more masculine or gender neutral.

If they were honest with themselves and rational, they would put their girls (and boys if they so choose) in the jeggings because stretchy, fitted, cotton-spandex jeggings with an elastic waist band are far superior and way more comfortable than little boy jeans, which are stiff, heavy, and usually have those buttons inside to adjust the waist, which are uncomfortable and dig into the belly, or if they are elastic they have the really thick gathers, which also dig into the waist.

But jeans are morally superior and leggings are signs of a character fault, because anything feminine is bad.

I don’t understand how parents of 3 and 5 year old have any saying in what their girls wear. Mine decide color and style them selves always

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up (girl) wearing solid color turtlenecks and denim overalls, etc. The boys wore the same outfits. It is odd to me how there are such gendered clothing styles starting at a young age. E.g., my 2yo son wears comfortable jeans and my 2yo niece is in tight jeggings. Maybe this is part of what's making everyone more likely to try to differentiate between sexes.

Girls are the winner here because jeggings with spandex are WAY more comfortable than kids denim.

At 2 I don't see why the boys couldn't wear spandex jeggings too? At 5 it is a little odd for a boy. At 16, they're wearing it again because 'fashion'.

That would be fine.

I am speaking to those moms who find jeggings on girls so objectionable, simply because they are girly, and who think that putting their girls in jeans is morally superior since jeans are traditionally more masculine or gender neutral.

If they were honest with themselves and rational, they would put their girls (and boys if they so choose) in the jeggings because stretchy, fitted, cotton-spandex jeggings with an elastic waist band are far superior and way more comfortable than little boy jeans, which are stiff, heavy, and usually have those buttons inside to adjust the waist, which are uncomfortable and dig into the belly, or if they are elastic they have the really thick gathers, which also dig into the waist.

But jeans are morally superior and leggings are signs of a character fault, because anything feminine is bad.

I don’t understand how parents of 3 and 5 year old have any saying in what their girls wear. Mine decide color and style them selves always

The parents have say in what the preschoolers wear in that the parents are the ones shopping for the clothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s weird, wrong and shows insecurity and lower education. I have no respect for parents that are like that. Just let your kids be whomever they want to be. DD1 was/is very much into processes, pink, jewelry, Elsa, etc. DD2 liked dinosaurs and blue and yellow. Nothing wrong with either one

Hard to believe lower education. The stereotype for people with lower education is that they are more traditional regarding roles. Speaking, you know, of stereotypes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s weird, wrong and shows insecurity and lower education. I have no respect for parents that are like that. Just let your kids be whomever they want to be. DD1 was/is very much into processes, pink, jewelry, Elsa, etc. DD2 liked dinosaurs and blue and yellow. Nothing wrong with either one

Hard to believe lower education. The stereotype for people with lower education is that they are more traditional regarding roles. Speaking, you know, of stereotypes.

I don’t believe that anyone with a graduate degree would fall for these idiotic trends... maybe it happens, but I can’t respect people that decide no pink, no princess, or any other hard line for that matter. It’s a sign of stupidity when one believes so strongly about something... especially something so trivial. Of course I also think that only buying dolls and pink outfits is not ideal, but going for what YOUR child likes without imposing limitations is the best way to raise your child. In my experience (small) not all girls love pink and not all boys love blue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s weird, wrong and shows insecurity and lower education. I have no respect for parents that are like that. Just let your kids be whomever they want to be. DD1 was/is very much into processes, pink, jewelry, Elsa, etc. DD2 liked dinosaurs and blue and yellow. Nothing wrong with either one

Hard to believe lower education. The stereotype for people with lower education is that they are more traditional regarding roles. Speaking, you know, of stereotypes.

+1 The lower education stereotype is pink and princess for girls and blue and trucks for boys. Totally ok if say a older boy/girl likes princess or trucks or whatever but not when they are babies and parents stereotype them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish we could just let kids be kids, instead of using them to make sure others know our political stances. If my daughter loves frozen, great! if my son loves frozen, great!

+1

[Anonymous]

The tragedy is kids being encouraged to like plastic over commercialized glitter toys, whatever their gender.