I have been pondering this post for a week now. The reasons being I don’t want to give these silly girls there moment of fame, they have achieved what they wanted their time in the news. But then perhaps we all want that? I was watching the news when I saw the newsflash about the pinkstinks campaign. Can’t believe I just gave them more exposure by linking them, but there again we all need a voice and having a different opinion is not a crime.
I read through the entire website and then I read news articles, and other peoples blogs. I’ll list them at the end and then you can go read and decide on your side of the fence or perhaps if you like a little action you can sit on the fence. ( i gotta go bath my kids come back and I’ll link, see I am real LOL)
I am if you know me well a pink girl. I totally put my first born a girl in all pink clothes which when I got pregnant again were pointless as I had to buy blue for my boy. Yes I stereotype, but once they hit one I stopped and just bought what ever, I even put my girl in blue shorts. I know the shame, I am amazed I haven’t been questioned for terrorist activities. And at my daughters 1st Birthday my sister gave her a toy garage which is now also made in pink dammit. She loved cars and still does at 3.5. At 20 months she had a Thomas the tank engine obsession. £300 and a few tracks and real steam engine later she was over it.
Now she was into pink babies and pink er what ever you could offer her, she liked to get dressed up, I got worried for a while there i’ll admit that. She is still going through a princess stage she loves pink and I don’t care nor mind. I’ll buy into it. I’ll buy her princess’s and horses with fairies and elves and I don’t give a flying F what the Feminist world says as I am not one. I doubt I will be.
My boy loves nothing more than putting on my daughters to small tinkerbell dress and playing with their wands, yes wands they have their own. He also loves nothing more than wearing his black trousers and playing with balls, cars, trains and being aggressive.
I am thrilled I have kids who are happy to play with anything, happy they can choose and happy they are what they are.
so yes pinkstinks STINKS!!!
ETA
Links as promised
I love pink. Its my favourite colour. I have a rather large stash of pink wool to prove it and I am often seen in pink. But I do choose my own clothes and there is a lot of options in colours.
I must say I am rather intrigued to see someone who I consider to be a very strong modern woman with so much freedom of choice deny that she is a feminist!
Really you think I am a feminist? I don’t, I mean I am all for fighting for womens rights and all that jazz but when it comes to things like this I feel like poking these women in the eye with a burnt stick.
Well if I ever have another baby girls you can knit for her
ah yes, I do think you are a feminist as are most women these days but perhaps you don’t like the label and fair enough too, it does need updating. I feel the same way. It doesn’t mean you have to agree with everything that every other feminist in the world says, its about choice after all, that’s the whole point of it innit?
I am sooooo angry about this. I totally agree with you. I get really peeved when people take it upon themselves to assume we all think like them. As it happens I am not a huge pink fan. I am not against it, but its not in my top five colours. I do put my little girl in the occasional pink outfit and if she wants to play with barbie and the like I am not going to get on any high horse. I mean I was obsessed with barbie when I was a child but am certainly not a submissive little lady – far from it. We are all entitled to our opinions, just don’t force them on others. Hear hear PINKSTINK STINKS!!!!
Thanks for the comment! This is what I don’t get that they think because you played with a pink dolly then you shall have a mundane crap job. That really shits me!