rant of the month.

There has something that has been tumbling about in my head for awhile. I may end up offending some people but that isn't my intention but it is in regards to girls, ideas about gender identity and frilly dresses.

I was reading a blog the other day that is mostly about Motherhood and so on and the woman who writes the blog was speaking with pride about how her daughter doesn't have an interest in dresses and how she is dressed in jeans and t-shirts and isn't interested in dolls. There was this implication that somehow her daughter was some how better or "stronger" because she wasn't keen on "traditional" interests and wasn't a girly girl. I have also read blogs and heard some women speak with a sense of disdain when their daughter is into wearing frilly dresses, playing with dolls and spending a good portion of their time pretending to be princesses and all those traditional things.

It bothers me for many reasons.
( so let me ramble )

Friday night cuteness throw down

( Alexander showing off the cute. )