SO BOYS WEAR BLUE.

Recently a friend of mine pushed out a baby. The most beautiful baby in the world. Well as beautiful as a baby can be. Considering I think they all look like demented aliens that cry and poop a lot.
Exhibit A

Now from my experience with newborns, which isn't a lot, I couldn't tell by face value whether it was male, female or goat.I think I was more concerned with it's blood shot wonky eye. This miracle came into the world and within moments had been tainted with that old saying "he's going to have all the girls chasing him". Which made me curious, how did his grandmother know he was going to be heterosexual? Would it be a burden on her if he were gay or a-sexual? How is this baby already under so much pressure to provide a nuclear family when he's not even 1 day old? I had not even known the newborn for five minutes and already sympathized with the grey cloud of expectation hovering over his tiny wrinkly head.
I felt like hugging him and saying welcome to society, it's a brutal commander.

He's going on nine weeks old presently and is beginning to grow less weird looking.

Having asked his mother why he only wears blue. She responded with a typical comment, "blue is a boys colour so people will not have to guess what sex he is and confuse him." Delving deeper into to this bizarre comment of blue means boys and pink means girls I decided to look further into how this myth of dictating colours became a symbolism for gender. Welcome to a brand the all parents want to dress there children in: bonds. 

Just take a moment to see if you can guess the genders between the two babies. Merry Christmas. I pose the question does gender in 'blobs' that can't communicate or really do anything actually matter? There is an abundance of sites telling you how real men dress. So clothing becomes how we distinguish boy from girl. It has become a necessity in our everyday lives to scan a passerby and unknowingly make the judgement.

 

Being the trash magazine reader that I am, I applaud Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. For those that don't care about famous peoples children you should take a look at her! Shiloh rocks clothes that aren't conventionally made for little girls. Chooses hair styles that aren't traditionally feminine. Or where they once?

Shiloh Vs my Mother

The similarities are uncanny. Short hair and clothes not typically for girls?


Okay so they're decades apart but this insists that there is much room for future change. As fashion evolves or gets recycled will we soon see another batch of 'tom boy' girls? What is now considered feminine and masculine can alter and break through the imaginary walls society has built. 

In today's society why are we so hell bent on catergorising everyone? Does this make them 'normal' when they fit perfectly into a cookie cutter mold? Or does this just discriminate on the free spirit?