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By: mrmollyrulesok

mrmollyrulesok — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:42:44 +0000

I love blue, my room is actually painted teal, and a lot of my stuff is blue. It really annoys me when girls my age (I’m a teenager) are talking about how they’re redecorating their rooms and ask me why I don’t like pink. I mean, I don’t mind pink, it’s a nice enough colour, I just don’t want to stare at it all day when there are other colours that I prefer. Argh!

By: Helping MFIF to grow « My Fault, I'm Female

Helping MFIF to grow « My Fault, I'm Female — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:02:16 +0000

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By: fiona888

fiona888 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:02:58 +0000

I love blue too, and purple – much more than pink. I would be fairly indifferent to pink if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s so overused and clichéd, which actually leads me to slightly dislike it.

By: lottieruby

lottieruby — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:19:21 +0000

Urgh! I’m so not into gendering babies into oblivion. That’s why I hate baby showers. Okay, I like the concept, a way of mothers receiving much needed items for their new baby, but it’s the gender-stereotyping of said items that I hate. And the comments that come with them for example, the cooing and ‘awwwing’ and ‘She’ll be such a good little princess’ over pink-saturated ‘girls’ stuff, and the ‘What a little stud’ (actually heard this at last shower I attended, ‘He’s gonna be trouble’ etc comments for the boys. It’s setting them up for their prescribed roles already in life, like we need more ‘macho studs’ and ‘silent princesses’ – enough!

By: si306090

si306090 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:30:09 +0000

You know this kind of thing actually continues all the way to college shopping.

Just because I’m female doesn’t mean all my sheets, and comforters have to be pink with hibiscus or butterflies. I would also much rather have the sham than the frilly bedskirt.

I ended up buying some aquatic and navel themed set because it was the only thing in the store that wasn’t pink!

By: sankuri

sankuri — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:57:25 +0000

I’m WTF at that commercial honestly. I CAN understand changing the mobile, considering normal reactions though.

I’m a girl, and when I was born I got … the blue bedroom, with one wall papered in a nice gender-neutral rainbows print wallpaper (seriously, very basic little rainbows in boring mathematically-arranged equidistant positions. Not girly, not boyish, just … equidistant rainbows). The only time it changed was when I was old enough to request the pink paint, which was only because I wanted to be like my sister, who had her room painted pink (I was something like 7). I turned 11 and painted it back to blue.

God I love blue. Even now I’m in my 20s and all my stuff is still blue!

By: mfif

mfif — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:55:51 +0000

Like all women, we aim to serve…

By: blackrose01

blackrose01 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:17:01 +0000

I know right, nevermind the fact that the baby might freeze, better make sure its in a gendered blanket.

By: kktwain

kktwain — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:53:43 +0000

That kind of happened to me when I was born. Everyone thought I was going to be a boy (because I had a strong heartbeat. They didn’t actually check my gender.) My parents didn’t care either way, had come up with boy and girl names, and my dad would never let anyone paint the walls pink OR blue.

But! You know how doctors like to give blue blankets to boys and pink to girls? Apparently when I was born the nurses were running around looking for pink blankets, refusing to use the blue. My mom just wanted to make sure I was warm, so she kept telling them to use the blue blanket they had ready.

By: blackrose01

blackrose01 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:37:33 +0000

Oh wow, it got turned into a post! WOO, thanks