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Title: Gendering Infants
Post by: Natasha on March 17, 2009, 06:21:46 AM
Gendering Infants

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/03/16/gendering-infants/ (http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/03/16/gendering-infants/)
3/16/09

I've seen a couple of blogs now post on Baby Bangs — a new company that creates wigs/toupee's for bald or short-haired baby girls so that people will not commit the heinous act of mis-gendering them. 

Gwen then goes on to ask questions about why people are so concerned that someone might mistake their infant daughter for a boy, as this product is explicitly designed to avoid.  I'll say that the question befuddles me, as well, though I was once the object of such concerns.