Comments on: On Early Gender Stereotyping

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:05:25 +0000

Great post! We haven’t really stopped the tide of pink clothes and dolls from the grandparents, but it’s been much lighter than we originally thought it would be. We basically resigned ourselves to the fact that people would send us dresses and pink things. Just because they send them doesn’t mean we have to use them, though—and we do let people know that we don’t “do” overly frilly/ridiculous clothes. (Heck, Baby Jane comes home covered in who-knows-what every day from daycare—we’d be crazy to dress her in pretty clothes!) That said, the grandparents send more books and educational/gender-neutral toys than anything else, so maybe they were listening to us. Hmm.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:45:49 +0000

Thanks Jane!

By: nancypants

nancypants — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:10:54 +0000

While my boys are what you would call “all boy” (with four of them, this just cannot be helped!) there are a few dolls in the house and if I could fit it I would have so readily bought them a “little kitchen” because #1 boys become daddies and take care of babies and there’s nothin’ wrong with them learning nurturing skills as children and #2 Men need to know how to cook and share in all clean up duties in or out of the kitchen and there’s nothing wrong with them getting used to these kind of things as children! I personally lived up in a tree as a child and loved dump trucks and sports.

And here I am… what you might call a “domestic type.” I wouldn’t trade all of the many days I spent in the mud for anything. I ran from frilly as a child and still do.

But still I appreciate the differences in the genders for what they are and heartily say “Vive la difference!” :^D