Gender-Role Reifying

Posted on June 29, 2011 by nedbeaumontjr

I got a FDNY hat as a present recently. It’s one-size-fits-all, which means it doesn’t fit us full-size people, so I gave to to the little guy. It goes well with his fire-truck shoes and toy ladder truck.

And then he says, “Why are you doing this to me?”

8 thoughts on “Gender-Role Reifying”

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© on June 29, 2011 at 12:39 pm said:

Daddy, I need even more toys!

Cute guy!
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- nedbeaumontjr on June 29, 2011 at 12:43 pm said:
  
  We’ve hardly bought him any. Relatives and friends keep showering us with (figurative) crap.
vacuumslayer on June 29, 2011 at 4:47 pm said:

He really is getting cuter and cuter. The downturned eyes are killing me. My little guy has upturned eyes like his mother.

If Mini_B keeps this up, he may be almost as cute as Dudeskull some day.
- B^4 on July 1, 2011 at 11:20 pm said:
  
  Whoa, BABYFIGHT!!!!
  - nedbeaumontjr on July 2, 2011 at 12:08 pm said:
    
    I’ve already been giving Mini__B lessons in fighting dirty.
Another Kiwi on June 29, 2011 at 5:16 pm said:

He is growing so fast! I think he’s about ready to take the hat off.
- nedbeaumontjr on June 29, 2011 at 7:13 pm said:
  
  He bows to no one.
herr doktor bimler on July 2, 2011 at 6:23 pm said:

You see if you’d ified the gender roles properly in the first place you wouldn’t need to reify them now.