gender enforcement

[metaphortunate]

Things the baby has ostensibly done recently to cause people to say "Wow, you've really got a boy there, haven't you?"

1) Opened kitchen drawer, flung out piece of tupperware
2) Climbed up slide at playground

Things I believe the baby has ACTUALLY done recently to cause people to say "Wow, you've really got a boy there, haven't you?"

Received a short haircut.

Reason for hypothesis

Previous to the haircut, the most common question upon meeting him was "Boy or girl?"

Alternate hypothesis

Perhaps the haircut has caused him to behave in a more masculine fashion?

Evidence supporting alternate hypothesis

None. Baby behavior has not noticeably changed.

Evidence supporting initial hypothesis

People are extremely good at finding patterns and then noticing evidence to support those patterns and discarding evidence that does not.

Conclusion

GRRARGH PEOPLE WHY YOU GOTTA BE LIKE THAT.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

I had one person ask me, in a very offended tone of voice, why SteelyKid was wearing blue if she wasn't a boy.

The best part is that she wasn't actually wearing blue. She just wasn't in head-to-toe pink.

[ironed_orchid]

OMFG.

This is one of the reasons that none of the things I am knitting for new nephew have either pink or blue in them.

[metaphortunate]

Time to deploy the Eyebrow of Disdain and then the cut direct!

[khedron]

Yeah, we've had that before too. They even assumed that our daughter was a boy because the *car seat* was blue. The frickin' car seat.

[thistleingrey]

Wow.