chill out project #1

[metaphortunate]

Chill out project, today's result:

1) Attempted not to freak out about things but just take things one at a time.
2) Junebug ate dinner late, got to bed a half hour late.
3) Junebug was an entire delight all evening, with a few freakout exceptions possibly caused by hunger.
4) Junebug can go upstairs all by himself and fetch Rocket a clean bib. In fact, will insist upon it.
5) Rocket has been sucking the ol' boobs dry, but that's probably not related.

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On another note, is there like a one drop rule for gender in kids' clothing? Rocket has a blue pyjama with pink piping and I realize it kind of looks like girls' clothes to me because of that pink despite that it is like 90% blue. I mean, he's wearing it anyway because I don't care, but I thought that was interesting.

Comments

[lovepeaceohana]

It's a very strange phenomenon to watch, especially with toys. When Lego came out with the Lego Friends line - you know, the pink Legos - I was personally kind of disgusted because I'm of the opinion that Legos are for everybody. But my aunt and girl cousins were over the moon because that wasn't the message they were getting! Without something clearly marketed toward girls, i.e. pink, they'd treated it as primarily a boy thing.

Clothes get the same treatment ;-; I've noticed that sometimes a bright, almost violent purple will show up on boys' clothes as a contrast to other loud colors - say, purple accents on a shirt that's primarily black, with maybe white, green, or orange graphics. The other exception is character graphics: Buzz Lightyear's purple wings, Hawkeye's ... everything ... stuff like that. And super-fashionable fancy dress, but I don't know that I'd count that in the same category with clothes made for regular wear.

[thistleingrey]

*nods* I am hiding from pink LEGO sets. Like, I still haven't seen one in person. lalalalala.