Are we being stereotypical?
Of course we are! If you got a problem with that... well... ummm....
Moving on...
We got her Tinkerbell, because we assumed it would be a cute little girly movie. So I sat down with her one day to watch it, and because deep down I'm not really stereotypical, I invited my three boys to watch it too. They laughed at me, and their daddy shouted in a caveman-like manner:
"That movie is for girls!"
Our highly impressionable boys believed him, but after looking into their mother's loving, un-judgemental, totally non stereotyping eyes, they figured they could manage to watch for maybe a little while.
Well, can you guess what happened?
They LOVED it. They wanted to watch it over and over and every single day after. At first, they were slightly embarrassed by their need to watch it. They'd sneak it into the dvd player, claiming to be putting it on for Lena.
Sure.
Then as they would watch, I'd get questions like these...
"It's okay for boys to like this movie isn't it?" OR...
"Boys can like movies with fairies right?" Or perhaps...
"This has boy fairies in it, so boys should like this show too... right???"
You get the idea.
Once I had reassured them a million times over, that it truly was OKAY that they liked this movie, the obsession deepened... they have the whole thing memorized, and it is the number one movie in this house.
You know who couldn't care less about Tinkerbell?
Of course. Lena.
She, unlike her parents, has totally accepted the fact that with three older brothers she is destined to be a tomboy. So she politely accepts the dolls, the pink clothes, the girly movies, but once she has tolerated them for a short time, she returns to playing with cars and dirt.
Hmphf!
Here they are... loving it, as usual. Where is the sister this movie was bought for, you wonder?Well! I'll tell you!
She was busy checking up with her girlfriends on facebook.
She was busy checking up with her girlfriends on facebook.