two years ago, I visited my eight year old cousin who I almost never get to see because we live far apart. her parents are just terrible - a proud neo-nazi and neglectful mother.
I was hanging out with her for like two hours and at one point she was talking about how her male friend from class had worn a pink shirt and so he was “totally weird” I asked why and kind of got mumbles in response, and I said something akin to how colors are just colors and my favorite color was blue and if she liked pink (her favorite color) there wasn’t really a reason anyone else shouldn’t like it too and she mumbled in response and I felt supremely angry at her parents for a few days and forgot about it
my mom called me today to wish me happy Easter and said that she had called her brother and talked to my cousin for a little bit to wish her happy Easter too and my cousin, 10 now, had started talking about how she wanted to buy a harness for her bunny.
it was a male bunny, but she was going to buy it a pink vest because it’s her favorite color and boys shouldn’t mind and it’s okay for boys to wear pink, and she ended it with “and [raeldazla] said it’s okay so it is” and excuse me while I cry for three hours