Re: [apmultiples] Re: gender stereotypes

["Tonya" <Tonya85 cox net>]

Pink  and purple are my daughters' favorite colors. I would try to buy
everything in other colors but now they know what they want and request
pink. The pink clothes get worn the most. My favorite color is green. I HATE
pink. The girls love it - what can I say. I know they are really going to
spite me someday when they tell me they would rather cheerlead than play a
sport.lol

Tonya
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret Christie" <mmc220 comcast net>
To: <apmultiples yahoogroups com>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [apmultiples] Re: gender stereotypes


>
> >
> >It's funny that so people are against pink for the girls, but I've
> >yet to hear someone with a boy say she/he doesn't dress him in blue.
>
> Well, I'll chime in for you to say that I avoid sports, motorcycle and
> other "boy" themed clothing for my oldest, a boy, and now that he is older
> (almost 7) work hard to find clothes that are in bright colors and
> interesting designs, rather than the sea of khaki, dark green, and dark
> blue which seems to be what boys are expected to wear.  I was horrified by
> the flood of pink we received when my girls were born (like LaRee, we
> didn't reveal sexes in advance to anyone)--we put them on the floor and
> took a picture of them surrounded by all pink clothes before consigning
> most of them--but boys are the ones whose dressing options are really
> limited by expectations.  My son figured it out at about age three and
came
> to me in tears because "girls get to wear all the fancy clothes."  (we let
> him wear whatever he wanted, which for years meant dresses a lot of the
time.)
>
> Margaret
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