“Okay, we have these new bell bottoms with a red tank top, jelly bean leggings, or the purple dress,” I say.
We have exactly two minutes before we have to be downstairs to eat breakfast.
Even with the school-bus scramble on a frazzled weekday morning, I give my girl some options.
“Purple dress!” yells my 4-year-old daughter, with a smile on her face.
I feel myself give an internal eye roll. Ugh. A dress. Of course she picked the twirly, flower-patterned, purple dress. If anyone is the epitome of a stereotype, it’s her. “All girl,” as they say.
I take it off the hanger, and slip it on over her head. I button her up. I look at her making her way to the stairs — she’s happily twirling in the hallway.
If I can be honest, I don’t exactly love that my younger daughter is always gravitating towards frou-frou clothes and glittery garments. I despise the fact that she loves her Cinderella sneakers. I hate that she prefers tutus to pants. I get very irritated over her love for stereotypical “girl” clothes.
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This article went for a twist right then and there. As a girl with 2 older model-like sisters whose clothing has always been sophisticated, I can always tell which style of clothing my mother prefers. She'd hum and har that I wanted to buy the dress covered in sunflowers, couldn't understand why my favorite pair of heels are pink. My mum labels me as 'girly girl' and I cannot help but wonder - when did it suddenly become unok uncool to be a girl? Condemning girls for for being to much of a girl is just confusing as all hell. I dress the way that makes me happy, I'm going to be a primary school teacher in a flowery dress with pink sparkly shoes, because that is who I am. It doesn't make me any less of a feminist. I embrace who I am because I know who I am. If you have a little girl who likes to dress in a way you don't get, just go along with it and be supportive because at 19 I'm still hearing my mother's voice in my head that is telling me not to buy that pink skirt because its too 'girly,' I do it anyway.