In which your humble narrator decries the public's tendency to assume that his tiny, adorable daughter is a dude.
I didn't realize it when we had Child #1 (male) that everyone... and I mean nearly everyone, assumes that babies are boys unless they are dressed in ludicrously stereotypically girlie clothes. Since Child #2 is a baby lady, this has become much more apparent when we're out doing errands and old ladies start talking to "him" and referring to Child #1's "little brother" and talking about how handsome* Child #2 is.
Since we're cheap, Child #2 wears a lot of Child #1's baby clothes. Babies don't have a whole lot going on in the sex differentiation department. Onesies work equally well to cover up boy bits and girl bits. It doesn't help that baby girl clothes are usually more cheaply made and more expensive than baby boy clothes (Wife and Sister-of-me assure me this is the case for adult lady clothes as well). Yet, unless Child #2 is wearing either pink or light purple, people think she's a tiny dude. What's up with that?
I'm not putting one of those stupid velcro bows on her head. It ain't gonna happen.
*Admittedly she is "handsome" in the traditional sense that it's applied to women as in "pretty but tall with a big nose." Child #2 seems to have inherited "El Schnozola Grande" from my side of the family. I pray daily her head will be big enough to carry it off as an adult.
Have you thought about makeup? I think a little lipstick and eyeshadow could help the situation. And really bring out her bone structure.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but Wife doesn't wear make-up so I don't know who'd do her up. I can't take her to the cosmetics counter at the mall (cheap perfume = instant migraine). Plus there's that fine line between tastefully made-up baby and tiny tart.
ReplyDeleteI suppose there's always this route to gender differentiation (not for the faint of heart): http://tinyurl.com/sxezv