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[quote=Anonymous]Lol I'm the PP from early in the thread who noted that my kid didn't pick up her love of pink and princesses at daycare since I SAHMed until PK. But it's amusing to me that I've been told I'm a "useless female" because I'm a SAHM, since as is clear from my post, I no longer SAH. My point was merely that DD didn't get princess love from me, and she didn't get it from TV, and she didn't get it at daycare since she didn't go. And yet, she still loves pink and princesses/ballerinas. Meaning this is just a phase lots of kids go through and not some gendered nonsense that gets shoved down their throat. I think the fantasy of getting to wear really beautiful clothes and feel very important is strong. This is also why boys who like princess stuff like it. I think there would be more of them were it not for gendered expectations because wearing brightly colored clothes and pretending to be important is appealing to basically all kids. Instead of rolling your eyes at girls doing this, you might ask why/how so many boys just wear very drab clothes and like sports. I think boys with gender essentialist parents get screwed because the range of stuff they deem masculine enough for their boys is so limited. Meanwhile, girls are allowed to do stereotypically feminine things and stereotypically masculine things. [/quote]

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