ps - to break my annoyance, let's all talk about the best gift you think you've ever given someone? my family adopts a family every year and buys them christmas presents. this year, the family had a boy and a girl and mom and dad. we bought the kids some art supplies and toys. none of the toys were really 'gendered' toys, because that's how my family rolls.
well the parents apparently just called my mom and complained that the toys were too girly for the son and that he can't play with anything he got, he can't use the art set because that sort of thing is "for girls" and the other toys aren't boy-toys. and doesn't my mom know anything about little boys, etc etc (nah she just raised 2). i put in beginners sets of knitting needles and some yarn for them with booklets on how to learn how to knit, and when my mom pointed out that the kids could both knit, the mom said something like "why are you trying to make my son into a fag? boys don't knit, that's for GIRLS."
my mom asked the woman if she even asked her son if he wanted to use any of it and she said "no, and it doesn't matter, because no son of mine is playing with girl toys, i don't want my son to be some pansy."
i'm pretty sure that just ruined my mom's christmas, and it was just teetering on the edge until now... i want to punch that ungrateful sexist bitch in the fucking face. when the hell are people going to get over that "pink is for girls / blue is for boys" bullshit and stop thinking that gender is this solid thing!?