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Here I am, searching Google to see if I can find an image of that spaceship onesie I want to show you guys (no luck yet). And I come across the following site: Tell me this isn't just the cutest stacky toy you've ever seen!
I wander slightly, and notice that they have gifts for baby girls, and gifts for baby boys... no gifts for plain old fashioned "babies". This can't end well...
Boys get an astronaut set, or a dragon set, or one of three different sports sets, in addition to the fairly bland-and-banal layettes and whatnot that you see everywhere.
A lot of stuff chosen because they're pink. No stacking toys. No dragons to stretch their little minds. Nope. There's a princess gift....
You tell me. Which overpriced gifts do *you* prefer?
I wander slightly, and notice that they have gifts for baby girls, and gifts for baby boys... no gifts for plain old fashioned "babies". This can't end well...
Boys get an astronaut set, or a dragon set, or one of three different sports sets, in addition to the fairly bland-and-banal layettes and whatnot that you see everywhere.
A lot of stuff chosen because they're pink. No stacking toys. No dragons to stretch their little minds. Nope. There's a princess gift....
You tell me. Which overpriced gifts do *you* prefer?
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Date: 2006-02-06 12:42 am (UTC)"Boy" or "girl" had nothing to do with it.
I made a post about this very thing not that long ago! Well, a few months... Children at the SICM love, universally, playing in the part of the blocks room that has the toy kitchen. Children Ana's age seem to love, universally, toy strollers. It's not a mom thing - they just want to be like the adults around them!
that doesn't mean you have to go along with it. Buy "boy" stuff for the girl babies you know, or vice versa as you think best. Babies don't care.
Oh, *I* know that - but that doesn't mean that there aren't silly people who don't get it at all. More's the pity.