RE: [apmultiples] gender stereotypes

["LaRee Brown" <mommytotwins2003 yahoo com>]

Yes & it annoys me to no end!!! Actually one of my main reasons for not
telling anyone the gender of my kids before they were born was because I
didn't want to get a bunch of useless "frills" for all our shower gifts
instead of stuff we could use (the other reason was that I don't trust
an u/s to be for sure on gender, but we has SO many to check the twins
that by the end I was pretty sure they were right. If we hadn't found
twins at that 1st (19 wk) u/s, it would've been our only u/s though). It
annoys my MIL to no end that I dress my kids in stuff that I'd want to
wear (ie. Jeans & sweats, or the baby equivalent). They spent their
first couple months in sleepers & the summer in onsies that I'd pull a
pair of shorts over if we left the house. I have a friend who, based on
the pictures on her website (she lives in FL, so I haven't seen her IRL
since college), thinks her dd is a doll to play dress-up with. All kinds
of fancy dresses with matching hairbows & hats, and it seems like she
wears several of these outfits each day. I joke to dh that his mom
would've been SO much happier if he'd married this girl instead of me
LOL.
 
LaRee & the twins
http://pages.ivillage.com/lareebrown/
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Valerie White [mailto:valerie forevermail com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:44 AM
To: apmultiples yahoogroups com
Subject: [apmultiples] gender stereotypes
 
Did you ever notice that the little girls in the grocery carts with hair

bows and barrettes, pierced ears, frilly dresses, lacy white tights and 
black patent leather Mary Janes are being pushed by women in jeans and 
sneakers and tee-shirts?

Valerie



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