Houel:”I think the phenomena described is really about the fear and shame of people thinking your little girl is so ugly as to be assumed a boy.”

Bingo. But parents don’t know their baby is ugly, they can’t see it, must be some kind of biological thing.

Houel:”If a woman is looking to get custody, children are better off with the nature of the nurturing mother. But this nurturing is conditioning in the context of any gender pay gap, and women who choose not to work are only more interested in mothering due to conditioning.”

Works for me, least some are still interested in it.

I have always said (having dressed many a baby) that girls own pink and boys own all the other colours. I didn’t know it was a big deal but then I never looked for a big deal. My own daughter looked stunning in black but it’s not an easy to find colour in baby clothing.

Wish they had written about physical play, people are much rougher with baby boys although baby girls love really physical play too. And little boys love playing with toy kitchens and dolls same as girls.

Which brings me to a 6 year old male foster child that I knew, liked wearing dresses and high heeled shoes, pushing about a toy pram, also liked cars and classically labeled boy things as well.

Shrink told his carers to take away all the female toys he liked and replace them with trucks and only allow him boy things, when I asked the carers “WHY?” It had been explained to them in simple terms…. If a child liked stabbing people would you give him a knife?

Huh?

I agree Candide, little girls dressed as small hookers bothers me no end, I think it is like not knowing you have an ugly baby, the parents think they look cute.

TPP,

"And little boys love playing with toy kitchens and dolls the same as girls."

Too true - and it's because small humans instinctively want to emulate the actions of the grown-ups around them...that's the way that children learn. So while a boy child is young and in a domestic setting, it is reasonable to suppose that he would wish to do those things..very basic human nature.

As for tarting up young girls, it does seem to be a particularly modern phenomenon. It seems that there isn't much opportunity to just be a kid anymore - clad in pink or otherwise. It's interesting also to see how popular girls dolls have been reformed to resemble street walkers with attitude...mmm, where do we go from here?

Monica says:

"When my daughter was born I was given a baby dress that had pink sequins"

MONICA (in my minds eye) Then I grabbed it, scrunched it up, took it to the footpath outside the Melbourne Club, and after stomping on it while holding my 'END SEXISM' sign, I then set it alight to my chant of:

"WHAT DO I WANT?"

"NOoooooo SEXISM !"

"WHEN TO WE WANT IT?"

"NOWwwwwwww"

Of course I had to say all parts myself, because all passers by just looked at me as if my brain had been fried in the microwave.

The video will be on youtube 2night.

Whatever happened to tomboys? You just don't see them any more.

I take it Monica would like little boys to have frilly undies. Please give us a break from this rubbish.

Jeez benk, they aren’t tomboys anymore they are vicious little psychos. They fight boys and each other with fists and weapons, what they lack in the hormone department they make up for in pure nastiness.

Course the boys are just as bad in the way they hunt for a fight and aren’t happy until they find one although a lot of them now have had to drop “don’t hit girls” for their own protection.

It might have something to do with the dolls dressed as street walkers with attitude.

I always think of it terms of the really camp gay men, they generally act like catty ho’s. I always wondered if they did because they think that is what being a female is to them?

Our tomboys have stepped it up. They don’t just wear trousers and climb trees they wear knuckle dusters and swear worse than sailors.

Maybe they heard about amazon women but probably spent too much time watching Lara Croft.

I better announce I know about the others kids, they love being active and respect other people. Being a tomboy for them is still about having fun even if you are only supposed to have it if you are a boy.