Twice, strangers have assumed that SteelyKid was male. The first person, on hearing that she was not, asked somewhat indignantly, "So why's she in blue?"
I find it terrifically satisfying explaining to people like that that pink for girls and blue for boys has only been the custom since the '50s. It's amazing how upset people get when they hear it had previously been the reverse. Boys in pink is evidently earth-shattering.
At least some of these things seem to be dying out. I remember looking through an old knitting pamphlet of my mother's and running across a very earnest explanation of how to convert a boy toddler's outgrown sweaters into a girl's. Because they couldn't button on the same side, you see.
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Date: 2008-09-22 03:16 pm (UTC)I find it terrifically satisfying explaining to people like that that pink for girls and blue for boys has only been the custom since the '50s. It's amazing how upset people get when they hear it had previously been the reverse. Boys in pink is evidently earth-shattering.
At least some of these things seem to be dying out. I remember looking through an old knitting pamphlet of my mother's and running across a very earnest explanation of how to convert a boy toddler's outgrown sweaters into a girl's. Because they couldn't button on the same side, you see.