Originally Posted by
atomic sagebrush
I also think that the increase in marketing over the last several decades has a sinister effect on us. I feel like it benefits certain parties for every family to have a boy and a girl and purchase two sets of wildly dissimilar products for them and to be made like they're missing out on some magical experience. So that has been promoted and normalized and on some level it's entered our collective subconscious.
Now, I do think there is something inborn in some of us that gives us a strong gender desire esp. for our same sex offspring BUT the social pressure and that overwhelming sense of "missing out" or lacking that some of us experience when we can't go into the "wrong colored aisle", I think is a new thing.