The Gender Divide, Part 2: Superhero Butt

In a previous post, The Gender Divide, I discussed the sharply delineated pink and blue aisles at toy stores and the resulting, prevailing attitudes that girls should like dolls and princesses and boys should like cars and trucks and soldiers.

Now, with the advent of intense potty training, we’ve hit a new iteration of this problem:  big kid underwear.

The Gender Divide

“I’m a boy,” she announces one day as we’re hanging out in the living room. “You’re a girl,” I reply. Then she says, “No, I’m a boy who climbs trees.” I had to chuckle.