So, a friend of mine is having a baby. Ok, actually several friends of mine are having babies, but I am currently planning a baby shower for one with some of my other friends. So, now for my mini-rant - why is it that certain things are categorized for boys and others for girls. Why is a frog a "boy" thing? I like frogs, why can't girls like frogs? Dogs are categorized with boys, dinosours, monkeys, gators and crocs, boats, reptiles of any kind and tons of other things that I do not think are just for boys.
I am so sick of commercial companies telling me that if I am a girl, I am supposed to like cats, butterflies and flowers and pink, every freakin' thing pink - and that's pretty much it.
Last night I was shopping on the Kohl's website for clothes for my one year old nephew - "the Ladies Man" from last week's post. Now, that shirt was funny. All of the clothes I found for boys of his age to age 3 were either sports or cars. If the clothes did not have those designs they were plain or stripped.
I find this so annoying. I'm ok if girls want to like kitties or butterflies, but only if they want to like it, not because Kohl's tells them they have to because they are girls. Why can't a boy like stars or butterflies? Butterflies are cool, they are wormies and then they can fly - that's awesome! Also, why can't baby girls wear blue? And why can boys only wear blue, green or maybe yellow? Stupid. I want to start my own kid line of stuff where anyone can like anything, to hell with convention or what people say you have to like.
O.k. I'm done. I just had to vent. Big thanks to Alexandra Ivy for sending me a signed copy of her new book Embrace the Darkness, book 2 in the Guardians of Eternity series! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Gotta run - I have an episode of NCIS waiting on my dvr.
'Til next time,
~Shel
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