jokes on her the only colour i wore in childhood was pink and i'm lesbian :p

My little nephew was given a baby doll (which I'm told he instantly rushed over to and cuddled), a tea set, a lot of other cooking related toys, dressups including fire fighter, dinosaurs and pretty skirts, and his dad has taught him all about professional football while Grandad has introduced him to boats. The result? A sweet and sensitive little boy who chose to dress up as a fairy for this year's book week parade, who challenged me to a football match on the lawn and won, who is fascinated by boats and dinosaurs, and who absolutely dotes on his baby sister. In other words he clearly enjoys traditionally masculine things but isn't being made to think it's shameful to like cooking and nice clothes and parenthood. One day that kid is going to be a fine man. Unlike the MIL in this story, who isn't a fine *anything* and needs to be dropped headfirst into a pit of rabid slugs.

I hate it when I put on blue frilly dress and suddenly turn into a guy.

I can't help to think that if phobes and conservatives weren't such gender cops that fewer people would feel the need to be trans in order to be accepted for how they feel.

NTA and I kinda love the pettiness. The passive aggressive in me would probably make sure your daughter has toy trucks and construction tools to play with But on the long term side, I think you realize this woman cannot have one second of unsupervised access to children. The amount of damage she can do is enormous. I mean if her son is afraid to deal with her, what chance does a kid have. Good Luck

I f*****g hate these stupid AITA - it's either rage bait garbage or, as is the case here, "look what I did and am so proud of! Reaffirm me and compliment me!!!"

My favorite color is blue but I'm a rat does it count

ah yes, i liked both colors. perhaps that's why i'm bi.

I was an extreme girly girl up until middle school, I’m non-binary now

lol the baby won’t even remember it either

I actually like blue but don't mind wearing pink once in a while, considering I have one or two pink shirts (one formal one, even). So, is OP's MIL gonna have an epilepsy when she sees this straight man wear a pink T-shirt or some softer tone colours? Well, guess I know what I'll be wearing for the rest of the day then... XD

My daughters inlaws are like this. We have had words over it. They are entitled to their opinion but I would shoot them down because I wanted my grandsons to know that they had horrible values.

Interesting. Out of my three kids--two of them born male both love the color pink. Actually, one of my boys always said his favorite color was pink or rainbow. Now he just likes pink, and the other has moved on to purple. My other kid? The one who loves the color green, she's trans. It's almost as if liking a color has nothing at all to do with sexual preferences or gender identity. Wow! This also reminds me of my homophobic dad who was mortified that I let my one son have a Dora the Explorer themed birthday when he was 3, and I bought him a dollhouse for Christmas that year. My dad was worried I was "turning him gay." My other son loved costume jewelry, and went through a princess phase--because a character he liked was a princess. Both of those kids are now 20, and 16--straight, cis men. Yep, it was the other kid who never was into dolls, or princesses, or jewelry that is trans.

People like this are EVIL and against education in any form! They enjoy their hatred and ignorance and dislike those smarter and nicer. This straight girl loves blue and jeans and tshirts and sneakers. And football and racing.

The cloths color is a bit silly. Everyone knows that literate drag queens cause children to "turn". I am sure i would be straight is i hadn't watched "Some like it Hot" with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon with my mother.

Poking a bigot might seem righteous, but it's an empty goal. Either confront her or avoid contact. You don't get points for just pissing her off because her views are wildly outdated. Do something or ditch. Your child deserves a good reason for either being in or out of her life.

She might consider switching her daughter's wardrobe to one that's very heavily rainbowed, and say, "You know, I've been thinking about what you said about my dressing her in blue so I've decided to give her all the colors at once." It would likely cause a cranial combustion.

Husband is a coward for not saying and doing more and allowing this to continue to go on.

MIL is a raving idiot. I wore nutruals - and mostly blue - since I was a child. As far a mom (R.I.P.) saw what colors I seemed to prefer, that's what most of my clothes were. In my 3rd grade picture I'm wearing a blue ginham dress. Guess what? I'm 100% straight. As someone pointed out, it wasn't that long ago that pink was for boys.

One of my kiddos used to walk on his toes up until the age of 5. This concerned FIL greatly. Told him like me, kiddo has high foot arches and it's more comfortable for him to walk that way sometimes. This seemed to alleviate his fears. I made that up, but we both do have very high arches.

Pink became popular in one circumstance that I'm aware of: British soldiers of the Red Coats period. Red dyed wool used in their uniforms would fade over time. Pink was the colour of most of the veterans who'd been in uniform for a few decades. The Sergeant-Majors and such. It was a badge of courage, survivability and pride.

Well the fact that the MIL is homophobic doesn't make OP less TA. Petty, childish, stupid. Using the baby to make MIL mad. She doesn't want to change MIL's thinking, she just wants to annoy her. Many years ago my parents didn't let my younger brother play with dolls or wear anything "girly", they were saying to him "Are you gay or something". He actually heard this so many times that he wasn't sure what is he. He experimented and ended up in really bad place. Today I have 2 girls and 1 boy between them. I allow my boy to play with the dolls (the same way I support my oldest daughter to play with Lego and cars). I let him try dresses in a game, be Elsa, put a hairband. As parents we have limited time to change the world for better ans don't make the mistakes our parents made. I would definitely speak to MIL if I was in OP's place and let her know this way of speaking is not allowed in our presence. The same way I have forbidden my mother ans MIL to use the word gypsy in bad context.

Funny thing is, that it was the opposite in the past. Pink was considered the color for boys several centuries ago (although it was probably not the Barbie pink, still pink though), because it was like diluted red, symbolizing bravery (and only a confident man would dare to wear pink now), while blue, as a color of fidelity, was the color for girls.

My favorite color is blue and I love men very much 😉.

Yea this is fake. People just trying to make stuff up so they can pretend all those homophobes are out to destroy us 😱