my children confound gender, redux

[pantryslut]

Here's a new one: It's hard to tell for sure due to the limitations of three-year-old speech, but I'm pretty sure Simone was mistaken for a femme boy today on the playground. (The term being used was "girl-boy"; it was the accompanying pronouns that clued me in.) For the record, she was wearing khaki shorts, brown sports sandals, an aqua-hued shirt with a pirate ship on it, a string of rainbow beads, and a pink bunny mask pushed up to sit atop her head like sunglasses.

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[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

Shay got that when she was little and going through chemo, because of having no hair. I'll never forget - she was 5 and wearing jean shorts, a tank top (blue, I think) and had big pink earrings in.

Someone told her she was such a polite little girl and she just said 'Thank you' but when she came over, she said 'Mom? They didn't pay attention. I have pink earrings in!' and thought it was the funniest thing ever. :-)

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Someone told her she was such a polite little girl and she just said 'Thank you' but when she came over, she said 'Mom? They didn't pay attention. I have pink earrings in!' and thought it was the funniest thing ever. :-)

Typo? Or does your kid associate pink earrings with a different gender performance than I do?

[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

Gah! Typo. That should have been 'BOY'.

[debbieann.livejournal.com]

go Simone!