mum demands kids clothes have with ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ labels be scrapped

I consider gendered clothing an outdated concept and shop in both the men's and women's sections, so I'm all for it. I wouldn't fight for it or call gendered clothing bull**** though. I doubt a three year old genuinely would either!

so you realise you're putting on the wrong gendered clothing.


* ^this is a joke

Clothes have different fits and sizing systems if they’re not unisex. Style and colour of clothes aside, there are two sexes with two generally different average measurements. Leave it be.

I consider gendered clothing an outdated concept and shop in both the men's and women's sections, so I'm all for it. I wouldn't fight for it or call gendered clothing bull**** though. I doubt a three year old genuinely would either!

Women clothes are other smaller then men also most men would not like to wear a dress but women like to wear jean, legging etc. It would be a waste of time and money make adult clothes non-gendered.

Why is this a thing?

By Eek said..."Why can't girls be brave and boys gentle?"

They can ofcourse but the labels are only reflecting what the majority of boys and girls are like.
Ask any infant/junior school teacher would they rather have,a classroom of boys or a classroom of girls.

When my daughter's were little it really pissed me off that the boys clothes were lots of choices in browns, greens, blues, rust and autumnal colours, whereas the girls tended(not exclusively) to be pink, black, silver and sparkley.

That's not actually true. Up to the age of about 7, boys and girls are physically equal and strength and shape. What I object to is that girls must be pink princesses whilst boys must be blue and beige. We used to dress our boys in all manner of bright clothes but after the age of 6 the choice is limited.

You will also note that slogans are gendered. Girls are pretty and boys are cheeky / naughty. Hardly words I would use to describe my kids. Why can't girls be brave and boys gentle?

I consider gendered clothing an outdated concept and shop in both the men's and women's sections, so I'm all for it. I wouldn't fight for it or call gendered clothing bull**** though. I doubt a three year old genuinely would either!

It was the fact that most kids clothes have size labels with ages on that caused me more grief as a child. I was always small, but I couldn't understand why that meant I had to wear stuff labeled for kids 1-2 years younger than me.

Sure, why not? A t-shirt is a t-shirt, and boys and girls can decide for themselves whether they want to wear an item of clothing that could be considered gendered in our society (e.g. a skirt or a dress; both items of clothing my sister refused to wear growing up, just because she didn't like them).

Surely clothes designers are just catering for what the majority of their consumers are likely to buy.

A girl is more likely than a boy to want a slogan on their t-shirt about being pretty, or a picture of a unicorn, or sparkles etc. And a boy is more likely to want something else.

I don’t see that as an imposition from the clothing company about how boys and girls “must” live their lives, or any restriction on what they can and can’t do. They just want to sell as much as possible, and so cater for whatever their demand happens to be.

But if a boy really wants a pink, sparkly t-shirt that badly, nobody’s stopping him from buying one, regardless of which floor of the shop it might be on or what the label says.

Of course manufacturers are satisfying a demand in the same way that farmers are happy to pump their animals full of anti-biotics to satisfy the demand for cheap meat. But as we know this isn't necessarily good for society.

People are generally ignorant of seemingly harmess things. Slogans about being pretty are born out by the mental health issues so many young girls have over their looks and a lack of aspiration. On the flip side, boys are not allowed to show their emotion. After all, boys don't cry do they? This pent emotion presents itself through violence in young men and often towards women.

Sure, why not? A t-shirt is a t-shirt, and boys and girls can decide for themselves whether they want to wear an item of clothing that could be considered gendered in our society (e.g. a skirt or a dress; both items of clothing my sister refused to wear growing up, just because she didn't like them).

Of course though, this suggestion will be railed against by imbeciles afraid of any deviation from the rigid and narrow structures of patriarchal heternormative society, who will much sooner point at those words and screech about "snowflakes" and "ess-jay-dubya's" rather actually try and engage in any critique of how they have been taught to perceive things.

They can ofcourse but the labels are only reflecting what the majority of boys and girls are like.