That’s what the Gymboree onesies say. Yeesh. You can sign the petition asking them to stop with the gender stereotyping here.
And when the “Pretty Like Daddy” ad “Smart Like Mommy” onesies make it to Cafe Press, do send us a link! (I feel very confident that one of our talented readers will create them.)
(Thanks, L!)
Note to speakers of UK English: “Smart” means clever in American English, which is the language of these onesies.
You can find Smart Like Mommy onesies on CafePress!
http://www.cafepress.com/smartlikemommy
Hurrah! And many thanks. Do you also have Pretty Like Daddy?
I too was shocked when I first came across this article; thought it was unbelievable how the management executives could overlook something so blatantly sexist. But, there ARE “smart like mommy” onesies after all (thanks Amber).
I guess the REAL problem here is that there is still no equivalent “handsome like daddy” onesies. It seems that while society doesn’t hesitate to judge women on their looks, it absolutely refuses to ever judge *men* on their looks. The unavailabilty of an equivalent “handsome like daddy” is still sexist.
Yes, but the reason that there are “smart like Mommy” onesies is that a reader of this blog chose t create them. It doesn’t undermine the claim that the management are sexist. But yes: I want “pretty like Daddy”!
Oh…I see. There were no “smart like mommy” onesies to begin with — they were only created as an afterthought by somebody else not affiliated with the company, who stumbled across this complaint.
And here I was hoping that the management executives of this company had at least SOME brain cells. Guess I was wrong.
Well, yea, they *are* just baby clothes, and of course there are bigger fish to fry, but it doesn’t make it any less sexist. Fighting prejudice sometimes requires taking small steps at a time.
And about the bumbling sitcom husband issue — yea we *are* outraged about that as well. But to raise it up under this post is an inappropriate red-herring.
[...] “Smart like Daddy, Pretty like Mommy” [...]