Good to know we're starting with this stereotypical crap early.
Get it... cause it's for a girl, so it's image/fat obsessed and in pink with glittery, twirly letters.
If I ever have a baby girl, I am not putting her in this. Why can't we have a little WONDER WOMAN onesies for our girls? Why are we making this idea 'cute' when girls younger and younger feel physically inadequate and think they need to diet? I mean seriously-- I just read something yesterday about 8-year-old girls DIETING!!
8 FREAKIN' YEARS OLD!!!
I know I'm taking this too seriously (I was in a pissy mood when I saw this at Target) but I'm just not amused. No baby BOY onesie said "Does this diaper give me a lopsided bulge?" So why are baby GIRL outfits putting this body image crap out there?
This isn't really anything to freak about I guess-- I just find it stupid. I should start a business for baby feminists where they can buy EMPOWERING onesies -- HA
Sorry for poor pic quality-- they came from my cell phone.
A better alternative...
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I once saw a three year old girl with a onesie that said 'fetish.' No joke.
Meanwhile, this is one of those issues where I think that women need to learn to support each other. I was one of those eight year olds on a diet-- I remember my mom putting me on Atkins when I was in grade school-- and the crazy thing is that I didn't have a weight problem then. My older sister says she remembers my mom telling me to suck in when I was four. It was like my mom had some kind of self-image tied up in her perception of me.
And then I DID start gaining weight, and now I am overweight. I don't entirely blame my mom-- obviously I knew that eating all that pasta wasn't a great idea-- but I do in a way. I feel that she'd been telling me I was fat ever since I was four, so I had always assumed that I was. And then when I actually GOT fat, I didn't notice. And now when I look back at pictures of myself, I cant' believe how thin I was. My boyfriend looked at a picture of me in high school the other day and said, "Holy crap, you were a rail."
This is one of those very few situations where I think that other women are just as bad as the male-driven image of perfection. In fact, I've been told by more men that curves are feminine and sexy, and only once been told I was overweight by a male. But other women have told me I was overweight more times than I can count.
One of the toddlers at my new job was wearing the one about making her butt look big. It made me sad, especially when I saw her parents.
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