I often feel like I’m drowning in a sea of pink as I sort through my baby daughter’s closet. When we go shopping, I see pink, pink, and more pink. I was hoping that in the twenty-first century, girls would have more options to choose from other than blush.
Have you ever wondered if we are grooming our babies to fit into stereotypical gender roles by dressing them in stereotypical gender-based colours like pink and blue? What about giving them traditional gender-based toys to play with? Read my musings about this topic on my post on HealthyPlace.com: Gender Stereotypes: Are We Still Defined by Blue and Pink?
Here is an excerpt:
Pink is not one of my favorite colors but I happen to see a lot of it now that I have a baby girl. The large majority of the clothes she has received as gifts are pink. A little bit of pink now and then is fine, but I like to dress her in other colors too and find the lack of non-pink clothes for young girls to be disparaging. Now, I am not one to be picky about clothes she will only wear a few times before she outgrows them, but I often feel amiss about dressing her in head-to-toe pink because:
1) She looks like a Pepto-Bismol bottle,
2) I don’t think little girls should be restricted and defined by one color (unless, of course, they want to be).
To read the full article, check out my blog, The Unlocked Life on HealthyPlace.com.
