“chastity” for babies? (well, baby GIRLS, anyway …)

My partner and I were just shopping for pajamas for our two-year-old son through Old Navy’s web site. It makes us nuts that babies’ and children’s clothes are so strangely gendered (shirts with waists and busts for baby girls? trucks and tools for boys, cartoon animals and hearts for girls?), and it’s a pain to have to shop through two separate categories of clothes–Baby Boy and Baby Girl–to see everything in his size. Anyway, we were thinking of buying him this set of pajamas with a sweet animal print when my husband said “Oh, no–we can’t buy THOSE” and pointed, distressed, at the name of the color–Chastity Pink. For babies. (Well, for baby girls, anyway.) That’s just weird.

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