I have yet to find a ladies cut tshirt that I don’t hate. I don’t want cap sleeves, I want it to cover the top few inches of my pants, and I don’t want it to flare so hard at the bottom. Fortunately they are making “fitted” cuts in men’s at lots of places that I am comfortable in.

My son has a variety of colors of the same cup, one of them pink. I knew I was doing something right when he was drinking out of the cup and a guy at the park walked up and said “you should give that back to your sister.” He looked up at the guy and answered “pink is a cool color. If you don’t like it, you not cool.”…

I took my son to a neighborhood playground event and there was a clown (ugh) making balloon animals. Of course He (2) wanted one, so we waited in line. The three girls in front of him for flower bracelets, so that’s what he wanted. “Are you sure, sweetie? Wouldn’t you want a sword or a dog or...?” No. he wants to be…

You just HAD to put the rainbow fairy book in there, didn't you? Ha ha. My daughter is obsessed with these books, and I grind my teeth every time she begs for new ones. They are never ending. Gah! But I also wish I had thought of writing them because now I would be rich.

If it helps, most kids in the 3-5 range are really adamant about being personally identified with one gender or the other but do not yet possess the cognitive skills to be able to understand personal choice and "you do you." They pick up gender clues from cartoons and toys and each other and feel an obsessive need to…

This idiocy is actually worse around the ages of 4-7, and then kids are able to have a more nuanced view. As a school librarian, many kids this age are only interested in books marketed to their gender (Princess! Superhero!) but by Gr. 2 and 3, no one blinks an eye at a boy signing this:

Holy shit. My son is 15m and I am terrified of this stuff - that socially-defined shit that I can’t remotely control. It starts early.

I’m 34 and she’s right. Cutefied logos are NOT real.

It doesn’t get any better as they/you get older. As an adult geek I am totally sick of having to buy men’s clothing if I want superheroes and stuff. As soon as they shove it on women’s clothing they decide the costumes need to be pink or the thing needs to be glittery.

I’m so tired of this shit. Just the other day, BabyStu (age 2) told me that rockets are for boys, not girls. Considering that my husband finds space boring and I’m the one obsessed with physics, this was a gut punch. And when I asked him where he got this harebrained idea (I promise I was nicer about it than that), he…

As the parent of a daughter and a son I am so sick of this crap.

The whole gendering thing is obnoxious. My daughter is in LOVE with superheroes right now but when I go to Target or Walmart all the stuff in the girls section is purple or pink or rainbow or glittered. And she won’t wear it because “it’s not real” since it’s not the real logos. (She’s 3 and very literal). So off to…

I have an ugly suspicion that at least some of it is companies trying to cut down on the usefulness of hand me downs, though it seems like toys have gotten more gendered since I was an 80s baby as well.

Yeah, it’s dumb. And it’s weird how much more gendered things are than they were when, say, I was a wee one in the 70s. I feel like we’ve lost ground in a lot of ways.

Whyyyyyy are clothes for kids under the age of 9 or 10 (when bodies start to be different) or especially under the age of 3 or 4 (when kids can have their own opinions about what they wear) so terribly gendered?

I know, but if you’re clever with it, you can convince people of a concept that they would absolutely not agree to otherwise.

Yeah, how do they know that? I’ve gone to school with Jewish Fosters, Carneys, Joneses, and a Smith. A couple of those were (gasp!) interracial marriages!

Maybe the “extreme vetting” should be applied to his own campaign staff rather than refugees...

Trump hires ‘the best people’ but he can’t be bothered to vet them first.

So the lower than scum alt-right opportunist from bastion of journalistic excellence that is Breitbart is an anti-Semite? What a fucking surprise. Absolutely disgusting. And here I thought there was no way I could hate these people more.