Is it weird how people dress baby boys and girls in certain colours?!

I agree. It's alright to a point. However, some people get so serious over it, to the point where it's just silly! Like, if a boy wears pink, he's gay (or looks gay, whatever that means). I've heard this said about babies too! Either that, or he looks like a girl. Both highly derogatory terms, of course. God forbid little Johnny is turned gay by a pink shirt... or turned into a woman?! Or a gay woman!:O Oh my, this is just atrocious. This is not what REAL men wear! Does his mother not know that pink is highly contagious, and *will* turn the child into a...I can't even...it's just too much... *faints*

Ugh.

I remember hearing once that a hundred years ago pink was the colour for boys and blue was the colour for girls. I'm not sure how much I believe that, but it bears thinking about.

It's an interesting question. I guess I'd dress my child fairly plainly until which time he or she could decide what they want to wear for themselves. I wouldn't force my child to live within the confines of social constructs, but I wouldn't encourage my child to live outside social constructs either if doing so made them uncomfortable. I've not thought very much about it though, probably because I don't intend on having a child for a long time :P

To me color codes are very interessting and they used to be much more complex and meaningful back in the days when most people couldn't read. So I see the purpose of having blue and pink to identify a babys gender: People don't have to ask. It's just a form of communication using a code that everyone understands.
What those two colors are really doesen't matter.

New-borns can't even SEE color! And as said before the blue-boy pink-girl is a new thing. Just ignore it and let kids be kids

I think colour coding children is ridiculous. What can't children be allowed to wear the things they want to wear without being labeled? Ever since I was young, I loved blue. Perhaps, this wasn't helped by the fact I also a tomboy because I was frequently accused by family members of being gay. Its a horrible thing to do to anyone especially a child who has no idea what sexuality is or that there's anything other then being straight.

I can't stand pink...no daughter of mine is going to wear that as long as I can help it...course, she'll probably go through a stage of wanting to, and I'll have to let her...I like blues, greens and purples :)

It always sickens me going shopping for kids toys and clothes (as I often do) how pink/pastel and frilly all the girls clothes/toys are and all the boys stuff is this wall of blue/bold primary colours for the boys.

One of my aunts had three boys who were all very girly growing up. They all wanted to wear jewellery, nailpolish, had long hair. I don't recall them ever wearing dresses, though (that was their father, but that's another story). But there were comments (from adults) that were less than flattering.

My uncle was the fifth child after four girls. My grandmother dressed him in handmedown dresses and pink things for the first while (until he grew out of them, being twice the size of his sisters at birth) because she didn't care to spend the money. She got a lot of comments along the lines of "Oh god, you had ANOTHER girl?" He's turned out pretty much your definition of alpha male, to the casual observer.

Who gives a shit what's wrong with blue and pink. You're all rebels without a cause.