https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 15 Nov 2026 12:52:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-443654 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:47:05 +0000 Honeybee 443654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. I used to correct people when they called DD a boy, but eventually I justs stopped caring. Now I just take the compliment about about my beautiful little girl (DS) and move on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442470 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:15:02 +0000 PinkElephant 442470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm relieved to hear this happens to other people when their little girls are decked out in head to toe pink as well. I've kind of accepted it as a cultural thing since I live in a country where locals still seem to prefer boys to girls and are maybe hoping that every baby they see is a boy. Occassionally when I correct someone They try to backpedal and say "that's ok, girls are ok too". Eek. I did ask someone once if they would dress their little boy like this (pink sweater with heart buttons, jeans with ruffles, hairbow, and sparkly Mary Janes)...and they first told me yes, why not...then reconsidered and said maybe not the shoes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442456 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:55:09 +0000 HLK208 442456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A little. Only because I dress her up in such girly clothes and I think "all that work for nothing?!" How could a baby decked out in pink possibly pass for a boy?! But I usually let it go and don't say anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442455 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:52:16 +0000 BeachMama 442455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes. She doesn't have much hair so I understand the mix up. But when she's wearing pink I kinda have to wonder. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442404 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:35:13 +0000 mynoahbear 442404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, not at all. It happens all the time, even if LO is wearing pink from head to toe. Probably because she has so little hair, but it doesn't bother me at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442402 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:33:50 +0000 skibobrown 442402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I get kind of annoyed, just because DD has a wardrobe of predominantly pink (thanks to my mother in law- not my choice), and she has very feminine features... yet people always think she's a boy b/c she is rather bald. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442372 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:44:46 +0000 JessicaMcB 442372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Personally it's only happened to us once because she looks so much like a girl (it was an elderly lawyer at my firm's Christmas party that thought she was a boy)and when it did I wasn't too bothered but DH was MAD! He didn't say anything to the lawyer (Thank God as he's a senior partner) but he was fuming about how anyone could think "his beautiful girl" was a boy as soon as he walked away. Go figure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442363 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:31:57 +0000 mamimami 442363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No but I find it funny sometimes! Getting annoyed by little things is too exhausting for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442354 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:24:26 +0000 erinpye 442354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It has happened a few times because LO doesn't have hair yet and her name is gender neutral. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I feel bad because the people that have mistaken her gender get so embarrassed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442318 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:59:56 +0000 Sammyfab 442318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He is mistaken for a girl nearly every time we go out (daily!). I feel like I dress him like a boy...or at least in clothing I wouldn't choose for a baby girl. It confuses me but it doesn't bother me nor do I find it embarrassing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442311 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:55:51 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 442311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. If it did, I would go nutty, because people think LO is a girl constantly, even when he's dressed in something that is definitely not gender-neutral. He's been called a girl in head-to-toe blue airplanes. It's the hair. Whatever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442299 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:50:16 +0000 Mrs. Pen 442299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Meh not really, I just calmly correct them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442289 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:46:37 +0000 Freckles 442289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsbells: i hate that too! I dont always want to dress her in pink. Yeesh! But in general, i dont care if they think she is a boy... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442284 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:43:13 +0000 Springtime 442284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have had people call my DS a girl, and it really hasn't bothered me, even though he looks nothing like a girl! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442283 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:43:13 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 442283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>People never mistake M, but they did all the time with Lala. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442281 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:42:11 +0000 Mrsbells 442281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>sometimes i dress LO in "boy" colors and people get irritated at me for that, they claim I make it too confusing for them to tell that she is a girl.. But I dont think it matters at this age </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442277 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:40:44 +0000 pastemoo 442277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nah. He's too young to be gendered. What bugs me is after I say he's a boy and then people say, "Really, but he has girl's eyes." Erm... thanks? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442269 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:38:44 +0000 plaidpants 442269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nah. She just looks like a baby! And she doesn't wear a lot of pink, so folks don't have much to go on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442251 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:31:58 +0000 prettylizy 442251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Meh, I'm sort of over it now. She's a baldie so people just assume, and I don't plan to pierce her ears until she is old enough to ask so it is what it is. She has a massive collection of bows, clips and headbands so that helps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442209 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:02:38 +0000 Weagle 442209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only because when they do call LO a "he," they're more than likely being a selfish communicator. LO very rarely wears gender neutral outfits, and rarely in public. Her clothes are very girly. When people call her a "he," it says to me that they just want to talk but don't want to make any observations necessary to have an actual conversation. Maybe they're trying to be nice, but there's nothing saying that the random person in Target has to say anything at all... yet they do. Basically what @zippylef: and @shopaholic: said :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442194 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:50:59 +0000 shopaholic 442194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: Right? My BFF had this issue all the time. Pink flowery stroller, all pink head-to-toe + hair accessories and they'd still call her a "he"! I think it annoyed her for sure. </p> <p>I don't think I would be offended, but I would be annoyed if she were clearly decked out completely girly (or vice versa). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442193 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:50:24 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 442193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Not in the slightest.<br /> It is usually old people who call her a he. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442191 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:50:05 +0000 Bao 442191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>People have done that all the time, when she is wearing a pink outfit with a pink blanket...really? Come on now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442188 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:49:20 +0000 littlek 442188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It hasn't happened to me but it would be embarrassing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442186 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:48:32 +0000 loveisstrange 442186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, not really. Babies are very androgynous in their features.</p> <p>It does puzzle me when people call a baby in a pink stroller, wearing a pink outfits and a huge pink bow a boy though. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gender-confusion#post-442176 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:43:38 +0000 Mrsbells 442176@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does it bother you if people think your LO is the wrong gender? </p>