Witches VS Patriarchy

And for that matter, a pretty big fraction of even the popular dinosaurs were prey.

I was gonna say, 'have you ever lived with a cat?'

When they like you they show love the same way silver screen mafiosos threaten to kill you if you dont do what they want.

Cats are monsters. I wish i had one right now.

Especially cats. Letting them outside causes mass death of insects and birds.

Ah yes, cats. The prey animal that kills billions of animals every year.

Dogs and cats are. Puppies and kittens are technically predators but they don't really do much preying until they are grown.

And dogs

It's how people perceive them. People are far less likely to quake when they see a cat than a lion

They absolutely are baby predators.

Well, I for one am glad I went looking for this.

love boy baby clothes that cute-ify t-rexes and so on 😊

Yep exactly.

We tend to go with the absolute minimum of unnecessarily gendered clothing for our little one. People assume she's a boy all the time. Like, with zero other info besides seeing the clothes/toys/stroller etc.

I find it to be a bit creepy tbh, so when it happens I try to avoid giving a correction and just make an exit.

Nah there's definitely something there, it's simply not accurate to pretend gender programming doesn't start in childhood, but her specific examples aren't great

You have to go the other way around it, white shirt, brown pants, red tie, you can BE spongebob

Have you been to Hot Topic recently? You absolutely can

Pikachu is a predator. Dude only pretends to be cute and nice but he can attack if he wants to

The animals for kids thing is more like... There are a lot of animals that are weirdly gendered. You will have a hard time finding boy clothes with cats, horses, bunnies. You will have a hard time finding girl clothes with sharks, lions, eagles.

Now, what do I mean with "boy clothes" even, isn't everything kid's clothes? And that's where I got amazed when the same pyjama set sold at size 74/80 - that is a baby size - had vastly different cuts for the girl design (a narwal argonaut) and the boy design (a dino astronaut). My girl never even fit into the girl set because it was so narrow. Not even when she was actually wearing 68. She fit into the boy set until she was actually wearing 98.

The sad truth is that clothes are awkwardly gendered from early on. Few brands make truly unisex designs. There is nothing wrong with girls wearing a wide tshirt with sharks or boys wearing a pink leggings. But to most people this will be an "X in Y clothes". Few brands design unisex clothing and few brands will create a dino dress for girls or a bunny shirt for boys. They exist, but among the common brands it is rather rare.

Edit to add: apparently watermelons are unisex. I've seen them on a lot of swim wear this season. Just in case you wondered about the genderedness of fruit. Because that's also a thing.