5 Reasons Not to Buy Your Daughter Pink Legos

I agree 100%, gender stereotypes lead to awful consequences, especially for girls. THANKS for this article! And those other comments about "girls will choose pink and boys blue"- THAT just proves the point of the article. IF you really want your kids to be able to think for themselves, allow them the opportunity to choose whatever color they want from birth- i.e. don't shove it don't their throats that colors are for certain sexes only- what a ridiculous idea! I bet those kinds of parents would be appalled if a boy wanted the pink salon set- hell, my brother (who is now a hairstylist, not a barber) used to get Barbies so he could cut their hair. And yeh, he is gay, but he was not forced to conform to any gender stereotype from an early age, and neither was I- I only owned one Barbie my entire life- and well, he cut her hair off (lol). We are by far more stable and realistic than any parents I know who grew up in the same time I did (and thankfully not in this horribly segregated generation), at least when it comes to knowing who we are and not letting others tell us what THEY think we should be. My soon is given any and every chance to explore and do whatever encourages real learning rather than reinforces that he's a boy or needs to be violent or play with trucks and planes to prove his manhood. He already knows he's a boy, but that didn't stop him from picking out a hot pink gardener hat the other day. And we're fine with that as parents. Reinforcing boys' vs. girls just widens the gap between the sexes. And most if not nearly all parents don't know their history- red was the boys' color only 60 years ago, pink was the younger sibling boys' color, and blue was reserved for girls as it was viewed as softer and more feminine. It it all stereotypes, and parents who rely on stereotypes to develop their children maybe should re-think who they are raising in the first place. Also, my daughter, who will be born in less than 2 months, will never have to worry about conforming to gender stereotypes in our household, she will be absolutly free to decide for herself- i.e. forget the media's and corporations' opinion of girls and what they should be, we don't watch that bs in this house! Nor do we encourage the sexualization of children in our household- i.e.e Monster High- are you kidding me??!!!!

Genderstereotypesarestupid of TX 11:50AM March 12, 2013