Anonymous wrote:Boys are great, but when they grow up they'll marry and not stay close to your family the way girls do.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think women want a girl to share things about their identity. Which is female. But less gender normed than the male counterpart. I wanted to do my daughter’s hair, buy pretty dresses, and share makeup tips, but also teach soccer, chess, advanced math, participate in scouts, and go camping and fishing. Then there’s growing up and going out to lunch and shopping. Gossip. I can do all that with a girl. Can’t with a boy.
Ugh. You sound like my mother. It's like you treat your daughter like a real life version of your baby doll or Barbie. Let her be her without some weird ideas about gender likes or dislikes.
I didn’t read that from PP. you missed the point. She was saying you can do male and female things with a girl but only male things with a boy
To which I don't 100% disagree. You can do those things with sons, but some people choose not to do it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think women want a girl to share things about their identity. Which is female. But less gender normed than the male counterpart. I wanted to do my daughter’s hair, buy pretty dresses, and share makeup tips, but also teach soccer, chess, advanced math, participate in scouts, and go camping and fishing. Then there’s growing up and going out to lunch and shopping. Gossip. I can do all that with a girl. Can’t with a boy.
Ugh. You sound like my mother. It's like you treat your daughter like a real life version of your baby doll or Barbie. Let her be her without some weird ideas about gender likes or dislikes.
I didn’t read that from PP. you missed the point. She was saying you can do male and female things with a girl but only male things with a boy
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think women want a girl to share things about their identity. Which is female. But less gender normed than the male counterpart. I wanted to do my daughter’s hair, buy pretty dresses, and share makeup tips, but also teach soccer, chess, advanced math, participate in scouts, and go camping and fishing. Then there’s growing up and going out to lunch and shopping. Gossip. I can do all that with a girl. Can’t with a boy.
Ugh. You sound like my mother. It's like you treat your daughter like a real life version of your baby doll or Barbie. Let her be her without some weird ideas about gender likes or dislikes.
Anonymous wrote:I have two boys but I do think moms prefer a girl. I think its some mix of shared identity, thinking little girls are easier, better behaved. I do think grandparents prefer boys so maybe its a generational thing also.
Anonymous wrote:I think women want a girl to share things about their identity. Which is female. But less gender normed than the male counterpart. I wanted to do my daughter’s hair, buy pretty dresses, and share makeup tips, but also teach soccer, chess, advanced math, participate in scouts, and go camping and fishing. Then there’s growing up and going out to lunch and shopping. Gossip. I can do all that with a girl. Can’t with a boy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm female and all of my friends wanted girls. People love buying clothes and doing girly things with their daughters. I have one of each. Nearly everyone was more excited about my daughter except my inlaws. My inlaws wanted a grandson more.
I love both of my kids equally, but enjoyed everything about having a baby girl more. The external stuff like bows, dresses, decorating her room and she looks like me. I love both kids equally though. I don't enjoy playing trucks or trains the way I love playing dolls with my daughter. And I'm sure some of you have boys that like dolls, but that wasn't my kids. It was weird how my son gravitated to the trucks. Both went to a nearly all girl inhome daycare too.
Basically, you reinforced so-called gender norms, and we wonder why more women don't go into STEM. #minime #boymom
+1
I’m so tired of these norms. I work in an STEM field. DH works in retail (gasp!). If anyone were to post #minime, it would be DH about DD, as she is the spitting image of him. They do all kinds of things, like play soccer, chase zombies, and the like. I “run her” at the park, and we jump in muddy puddles, as he doesn’t like getting dirty.
She does cook and clean with me though. I guess there’s a gender norm.![]()