What really grinds your gears?

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Angus Clydesdale Mar 2017 11:07pm, 21 Mar 2017 12,105 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale You need to zoom down Lane1 then. That'd show 'em!
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2017 11:08pm, 21 Mar 2017 12,106 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale Even better if you laugh maniacally and repeatedly thrust two fingers at the rest.
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2017 11:09pm, 21 Mar 2017 12,107 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale Do you have any punk or heavy metal CDs in the car?
Helegant Mar 2017 7:20am, 22 Mar 2017 4,405 posts	0 Helegant Fleecy, not just their clothes but their toys too. Why do toys for girls have to be pink or lilac? I suspect there's a thesis available about the drive (fear?) to 'help'/encourage etc our children to identify with gender.
mad4purple Mar 2017 7:24am, 22 Mar 2017 35,836 posts	0 mad4purple The whole pink/blue thing, long/short hair thing, boxing children really grinds my gears too. I'm trying my hardest to encourage my kids to believe every colour/every toy/any job/any hairdo is for anyone, but they hear the 'that's for boys/girls' comments at school. E 5.6 will say no it's for anyone now.
FleeCircus Mar 2017 8:46am, 22 Mar 2017 33,656 posts	0 FleeCircus I think it's getting worse as well, the rise of pink fascism. It needs a sociologist to dig into the causes, they probably already have. It's kind of interesting that it's happening at a time of increasing openness and tolerance (well, mostly) of homosexuality and transgenderism (is that a word?). Ds1's favourite colour has always been pink and he used to get teased about it at school, but then again most of Mr fleecy's work shirts are pale pink and he works in a conservative working environment. It's complicated!
McGoohan Mar 2017 8:49am, 22 Mar 2017 28,529 posts	0 McGoohan My slight antipathy about pink is that it sometimes looks like I washed a red sock with my white shirt and it came out pink but that I CBAed to replace it.
ChrisHB Mar 2017 9:14am, 22 Mar 2017 14,639 posts	0 ChrisHB For my money, princesses and magic ponies are worse than pink, though the overlap is very considerable.
Wine Legs Mar 2017 9:53am, 22 Mar 2017 4,128 posts	0 Wine Legs Pip really suits pink. He has a pink sleeping bag. Squeak has a blue one. I am trying hard to bring my kids up outside stereotypical gender boundaries, but it's hard. Buying reasonably priced clothes means stereotypical clothes, which I hate. This grinds my gears. Binks says things without thinking too, like "throwing like a girl" etc. I get my gears ground then too.
Helegant Mar 2017 11:10am, 22 Mar 2017 4,411 posts	0 Helegant I agree that the increased 'general' acceptance of variety seems to correlate with focused gender differentiation in other areas. I wish I understood this all a bit better rather than getting wound up by the idea that to be feminine means being obsessed by appearance.