Gender conditioning

^That kind of proves my point. Children tend to drift in a natural direction of their own choosing. I've got a work mate who's shitting himself because his lad loves pink things, dolls, tinsel-covered toys in seaside tat shops, putting on his mum's jewellery.

I've told him, there's nothing he can do. Try and stop the lad and he'll alienate him. It might be a phase, it might be a life choice, there's nothing a parent can honestly do about it. We don't have them for long before they leave.

^ This was my little bro.

He now bats for the other team. We blame our mum. She says it runs in my Dad's family.

To be fair there have been a number of 'flamboyant' relatives on that side.

Pink has only very recently become associated with girls - a while back it was seen as a boys colour. Evidence is on the internet somewhere.

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