pink diapers on a boy

This just makes me crazy. I’m in the whole “mommy-baby-small-children” universe right now with my life, and I get so tired of the wah-wah crap with fathers being uncomfortable with “girl” diaper bags, baby carriers and other baby gear. Just this morning I was checking out baby carriers for sale on this baby wearing community website and someone was selling a perfectly good carrier that she herself admits she loves because she needs something more gender neutral for the “hubby” to wear. Why are some men so freaked out by “girl” things, pink diaper bags and what not? Why does their sense of masculinity feel so threatened by a lavender baby thing that’s anywhere near them? Are they worried that they might be mistaken for a woman? (Oh horror!!)
I’ve overheard parents at the store where I get cloth diapers worry and fuss about having ok colored diapers for their little boy. Mothers talking about how the fathers would be upset if their son was in a diaper with the wrong color. Hello? Folks, it’s a diaper, babies shit in diapers and I can guarantee you that a pink diaper will not make your son a homosexual…is that what is bothering you? What the hell is it? Maybe that Madonna song said it best:
Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
cause its ok to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
cause you think that being a girl is degrading
That is pretty sad considering that that is what in essence these fathers are telling their little girls…being THEM would be degrading.
Thank you for letting me vent.