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Comment author: moridinamael 24 November 2012 05:58:21AM *  24 points [-]

They exist, but it's like this: you walk into the store. To your left, there are forty pink dresses and onesies with Cutest Princess or somesuch printed on them. To your right, there are forty blue onesies and overall combos, often with anthropomorphic male animals printed on them. In the middle, there are three yellow or green onesies.

On top of that, well-meaning relatives send us boxes of the pink dresses.

When I dress her, I avoid the overtly feminine outfits. But then I worry that I'm committing an entirely new mistake. I imagine my daughter telling me how confused she felt that her father seemed reluctant to cast her as a girl. "Did you wish I was a boy, Daddy?" There don't seem to be many trivially obvious correct choices in parenting.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 24 November 2012 12:24:50PM 4 points [-]

You don't need to eradicate pink. Just reducing it to a reasonable level won't spur any 'Did you wish I was a boy' ideas.

Comment author: David_Gerard 24 November 2012 01:06:07PM 2 points [-]

Mine loves pink. We make sure to let her interest in non-pink things run free too (dinosaurs, space, trains, etc).