I try to toe the line when it comes to children and gender. On the one hand, I realize that dressing a boy in a hot pink outfit isn't really worth the trouble (He's a girl? But that's pink. Are you sure he's a girl?), but on the other I don't want to outright reinforce gender sterotypes (that means if my boy wants a doll, I'll let him have one even though I, as a girl, hate dolls). And then there are these shoes, which jump right into the fray with what I see as straight-up sexism. Now I know a baby doesn't know any better, but is it really OK to use your kid as your own sexist billboard? If you think so, you can have the Me in Mind shoes in four sizes (newborn through 18 months) for $26.
What do the readers think? Harmlessly silly or blatantly sexist?
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