Mom Gets Back At Homophobic MIL By Dressing Her Baby Girl In Blue Every Time She Visits
Babies grow out of clothes quickly, so many parents only buy what they need. They choose items that are easy to put on and off, comfortable to wear, and easy to wash.
However, Reddit user F0restghost‘s mother-in-law thinks she should also dress her daughter according to her gender.
In her post on the subreddit ‘Two Hot Takes,’ the mom explained that this started when the lady noticed her little girl in blue. Because, you know, it’s reserved for boys.
This woman got into an argument with her mother-in-law over her baby girl’s clothes
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As the lady believes that certain colors will make the girl grow up to be a lesbian
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The lady shouldn’t be concerned with her granddaughter’s sexuality
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Across cultures, 2% to 10% of people report having same-sex relations. In the US, 1% to 2.2% of women and men, respectively, identify as gay.
Despite these numbers, many people, including F0restghost’s mother-in-law, still have a flawed understanding of sexuality.
Biologists have documented homosexual behavior in more than 450 species.
In a 2019 issue of Science magazine, geneticist Andrea Ganna at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues, described the largest survey to date for genes associated with same-sex behavior. By analyzing the DNA of nearly half a million people from the U.S. and the U.K., they concluded that genes account for between 8% and 25% of same-sex behavior.
Molecular biologist Bill Sullivan says that “sexual behavior is widely diverse and governed by sophisticated mechanisms throughout the animal kingdom. As with other complex behaviors, it is not possible to predict sexuality by gazing into a DNA sequence as if it were a crystal ball. Such behaviors emerge from constellations of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of genes, and how they are regulated by the environment.”
Not from wearing the wrong color.
“While there is no single ‘gay gene,’ there is overwhelming evidence of a biological basis for sexual orientation that is programmed into the brain before birth based on a mix of genetics and prenatal conditions, none of which the fetus chooses.
In-law relationships are tricky
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One of the reasons why navigating in-law relationships can be tricky is the fact that there is no rulebook for them.
A factor that could contribute to the prevalence of female in-law tension in particular is child-rearing, and its disproportionate impact on women, which could potentially compound any pre-existing conflict.
During the early child-rearing period, new moms and their mothers-in-laws may well have more frequent contact than before. “When pregnant, breastfeeding and caring for a young baby, mothers are faced with a challenging time and need extra support,” explains Gretchen Perry, professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and co-author of the paper In-Law Relationships in Evolutionary Perspective: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Although a new mother’s partner and father-in-law also help, it’s often her own mother and mother-in-law who try to provide the most robust support. Plus, child-rearing is an emotive topic that comes with a plethora of generational differences, with a mother-in-law expecting to have her grandchild raised one way, and an exhausted mom adamant about doing some things differently, the conditions are set for disagreements.
But people who read the story still think that the lady has no business “teaching” the mom how to dress her daughter
jokes on her the only colour i wore in childhood was pink and i'm lesbian :p
Most of my clothes are blue, and I’m gay as a tree full of parrots.
Cishet woman here currently dressed completely in blue... even my socks.
Me too, I love blue!
Hahahaha... gay as a tree full of parrots. That's funny.
Peter, you sound wonderful! I wish I knew you!
😂
Nice! Lol
And also wasn't the colours in the past the opposite? Don't know if true but read it here on BP. 🙂
It was! https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/01/pink-blue/
Me and my sisters were all dressed in blue because it's m'y mother's favorite colour. When bigots commented, she told them they should paint Mother Mary in pink so people wouldn't confused her for a man. (I'm bisexual, my sisters are straight, I'm pretty sure nothing Comes from the color 😂)
In Russian "rozovaya" meaning pink was also a slang word for a lesbian, while "goluboi" meaning "light blue" was a slang term for a gay. Both words aren't widely used now though, but were popular around 90s and 2000s.
Pink is my least favorite color, and I'm a cishet woman. I never liked dolls either; even as a child, they freaked me out. It's almost as if gender and sexuality have nothing to do with likes and dislikes.
Wearing partially pink clothes with unicorns and I'm not cis :)
I wore a lot of red and now I'm asexual.
Haha mom bought me a lot of pink girly clothes when I was kid and I am bi.
no fr
I'm straight and I wear blue from head to toe 💙👗
I'm the most pink loving lesbian you will ever encounter myself.
Cool!:D
She does *know* that pink is a fairly common color in vaginal colour spectrum, right?.... RIGHT? Anyway, I look forward to her gifting her precious granddaughter Georgia O'Keefe artwork. Such pretty, pretty flowers! So real you could almost reach out and bury your face in them...
Next time MIL is over she should dress baby all in black: "doctor's orders, we had her tested and she's a goth, ohhh well!"
I wish I could give you an award! In the absence of one, please take my upvote! ✔️😂😂😂
My little nephew was given a baby doll (which I'm told he instantly rushed over to and cuddled), a tea set, a lot of other cooking related toys, dressups including fire fighter, dinosaurs and pretty skirts, and his dad has taught him all about professional football while Grandad has introduced him to boats. The result? A sweet and sensitive little boy who chose to dress up as a fairy for this year's book week parade, who challenged me to a football match on the lawn and won, who is fascinated by boats and dinosaurs, and who absolutely dotes on his baby sister. In other words he clearly enjoys traditionally masculine things but isn't being made to think it's shameful to like cooking and nice clothes and parenthood. One day that kid is going to be a fine man. Unlike the MIL in this story, who isn't a fine *anything* and needs to be dropped headfirst into a pit of rabid slugs.
Awesome!
Yes! I love this. When my youngest was little he went through a princess phase. Had to have princess dresses. But he also loved Star Wars. One of my favorite memories is of him playing in the back yard in a ninja costume and a tutu, wielding a light saber. I grew up with dolls, but also loved Matchbox cars, GI Joe, and super heroes. No one batted an eye at that. But let a boy play with Barbie, or dress up as a princess and people lose their minds.
jokes on her the only colour i wore in childhood was pink and i'm lesbian :p
Most of my clothes are blue, and I’m gay as a tree full of parrots.
Cishet woman here currently dressed completely in blue... even my socks.
Me too, I love blue!
Hahahaha... gay as a tree full of parrots. That's funny.
Peter, you sound wonderful! I wish I knew you!
😂
Nice! Lol
And also wasn't the colours in the past the opposite? Don't know if true but read it here on BP. 🙂
It was! https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/01/pink-blue/
Me and my sisters were all dressed in blue because it's m'y mother's favorite colour. When bigots commented, she told them they should paint Mother Mary in pink so people wouldn't confused her for a man. (I'm bisexual, my sisters are straight, I'm pretty sure nothing Comes from the color 😂)
In Russian "rozovaya" meaning pink was also a slang word for a lesbian, while "goluboi" meaning "light blue" was a slang term for a gay. Both words aren't widely used now though, but were popular around 90s and 2000s.
Pink is my least favorite color, and I'm a cishet woman. I never liked dolls either; even as a child, they freaked me out. It's almost as if gender and sexuality have nothing to do with likes and dislikes.
Wearing partially pink clothes with unicorns and I'm not cis :)
I wore a lot of red and now I'm asexual.
Haha mom bought me a lot of pink girly clothes when I was kid and I am bi.
no fr
I'm straight and I wear blue from head to toe 💙👗
I'm the most pink loving lesbian you will ever encounter myself.
Cool!:D
She does *know* that pink is a fairly common color in vaginal colour spectrum, right?.... RIGHT? Anyway, I look forward to her gifting her precious granddaughter Georgia O'Keefe artwork. Such pretty, pretty flowers! So real you could almost reach out and bury your face in them...
Next time MIL is over she should dress baby all in black: "doctor's orders, we had her tested and she's a goth, ohhh well!"
I wish I could give you an award! In the absence of one, please take my upvote! ✔️😂😂😂
My little nephew was given a baby doll (which I'm told he instantly rushed over to and cuddled), a tea set, a lot of other cooking related toys, dressups including fire fighter, dinosaurs and pretty skirts, and his dad has taught him all about professional football while Grandad has introduced him to boats. The result? A sweet and sensitive little boy who chose to dress up as a fairy for this year's book week parade, who challenged me to a football match on the lawn and won, who is fascinated by boats and dinosaurs, and who absolutely dotes on his baby sister. In other words he clearly enjoys traditionally masculine things but isn't being made to think it's shameful to like cooking and nice clothes and parenthood. One day that kid is going to be a fine man. Unlike the MIL in this story, who isn't a fine *anything* and needs to be dropped headfirst into a pit of rabid slugs.
Awesome!
Yes! I love this. When my youngest was little he went through a princess phase. Had to have princess dresses. But he also loved Star Wars. One of my favorite memories is of him playing in the back yard in a ninja costume and a tutu, wielding a light saber. I grew up with dolls, but also loved Matchbox cars, GI Joe, and super heroes. No one batted an eye at that. But let a boy play with Barbie, or dress up as a princess and people lose their minds.