Proud That Your Daughter Bailed on Pink Princess Dresses? Maybe Don’t Be

A six-year-old girl declaring her hatred of pink has basically internalized sexism

Lisa Selin Davis
GEN
Published in
6 min readAug 12, 2020

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Photo: MoMo Productions/Getty Images

“I don’t like princesses,” my daughter’s seven-year-old friend proclaimed proudly. “Or pink.”

“Me either,” chimed in another little girl, one of six we were having over for my…

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Lisa Selin Davis
GEN
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Author of TOMBOY: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different; writer of essays and articles; worrier; wonderer; no longer a wanderer.