tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4878200314308161529.post1430586284300557843..comments2012-08-29T19:05:24.214-05:00Comments on The Introverted Urban Parent: The Handsome Daughterthe IUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16076123232823791188noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4878200314308161529.post-50733320391492691522010-09-17T10:31:08.595-05:002010-09-17T10:31:08.595-05:00I'm expecting a girl after having already give...I'm expecting a girl after having already given birth to a boy -- one who is obsessed with trucks and tractors and running and jumping on things (but also making "soup" with his magnet letters in his own set of pots and pans and serving it to his baby doll, just to counterbalance the gender stereotyping). Since we're not doing anything else different for this child, I do find Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02921283699040991082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4878200314308161529.post-51220690148253662652010-08-31T13:07:32.541-05:002010-08-31T13:07:32.541-05:00This is fascinating. One of my gender studies clas...This is fascinating. One of my gender studies classes had a day where we looked went to a toy store and looked at the differences between "boy" toys and "girl" toys. <br /><br />You should start telling people she's a hermaphrodite. Or a robot.<br /><br />-HannahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4878200314308161529.post-36950236178304292242010-08-19T08:39:35.923-05:002010-08-19T08:39:35.923-05:00i love this. i too have noticed that it is the ab...i love this. i too have noticed that it is the absence of pink that really does it. anything not pink is automatically boy. 99% of the time people think my babe is a boy. one time she was called out as being a girl - she was wearing pink pants, but they were "boy" pink pants. it's super interesting. especially since they really are so genderless. i do not get a sense of AshmanLisAshmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178132069535330354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4878200314308161529.post-88346540047123812542010-08-18T00:47:16.568-05:002010-08-18T00:47:16.568-05:00I love this post. People get so uptight when they...I love this post. People get so uptight when they can't decode the baby's sex. I was assured by others that it would in fact bother me that people wouldn't be able to 'tell' and just like I retorted, it did not. I did find it fascinating to watch them respond. Some were apologetic and some balked -- how could my daughter be wearing forest green, brown and blue at the same Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com