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⌈ Secret Post #2492 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Only Cute Stories Need Apply

[anonymouslyyours]

Pretty much any time a girl strayed from the girl's selection she'd eventually get ushered back by a parent. In a couple of cases complete strangers (only middle aged or elderly women though) would chide other people's kids to pick something "prettier" or warned that they wouldn't want people to think they were boys.

I'm actually really bothered by our selection for girls because when we ordered the head of the department straight up told me we maximize profits by ordering large amounts of generic, default girl costumes (we were told not to order any Black Widow or She-Hulk costumes even though we've been selling those action figures and coloring books really well recently), because they will get sold. But if we don't have a wide range of selection for boys parents will take them elsewhere. So we need three different versions of Spiderman made available, but girls only need different color options for their princess dress because parents will coax them into settling for them.

Re: Only Cute Stories Need Apply

[diet_poison]

Ewwww. cringe cringe.

I was never a princess for Halloween. I was a variety of things, such as a skeleton and Harry Potter (it didn't even occur to me to think that cosplaying an actual boy would be "weird") and a cat burglar thing and I think once maybe a cowgirl? or something? Most of mine were pretty gender-neutral. I'm so glad my mom never (not once that I can remember, in fact) gave me the "be a ~real~ girl" spiel and she would have had plenty of opportunities. For a time when I was a kid I shopped almost exclusively for boys' clothes (I thought they looked cooler) and had a really short haircut and eschewed anything ~~girly~~.

Looking back on it its kind of odd, since my parents aren't...well, they're not Extreme Hard Right but my mom is definitely a more conservative person, and doesn't have the most progressive views on things like sexuality and gender identity, but she never once voiced a concern about these choices. :|a Actually, it kind of makes me wonder how awful other parents must be if my relatively politically conservative mom was totally ok with the way I expressed myself as a kid. >___>

(OT, but I realized I forgot to leave an important part out of my own cute story. I'm 23, and people say I look a bit younger. There are people of a variety of ages here, so some context helps explain why the girl's exclamation was so funny xD)

ETA: I guess that means Harry Potter was my first real cosplay. Woah. That's so weird! I didn't even know what cosplay *was*. I think I was about 12 xDD

Re: Only Cute Stories Need Apply

[(Anonymous)]

It's actually never occurred to me, but absolutely every one of my Halloween costumes as a child was either non-gendered (playing card, severed head on a plate) or clearly male (harpo marx, blue-beard...) I guess I have to retro-actively thank my parents for letting me choose whatever I wanted and making absolutely no bones about it.

Re: Only Cute Stories Need Apply

[elialshadowpine]

The only time that I ever remember doing a princess outfit was when I was... oh, somewhere between six and nine, and I reused part of my previous year's costume and was a cat princess. I may have been a strange child.

Re: Only Cute Stories Need Apply

[tabaqui]

Well, that's amazingly horrifying.

Re: Only Cute Stories Need Apply

[anonymouslyyours]

I'd like to think most parents know about our limited selection and take their daughters to the seasonal costume shops that spring up around Halloween and that leaves me observing a small, biased sample? I volunteered at a community event for safe trick-or-treating and saw plenty of girls dressed up in a variety of costumes.

But it's still kind of :(