I suppose this is related but MissH and myself were pushing our ten-month-old son around a discount shop the other day and we picked up a cheap pair of pom-poms and started shaking it in his face. He absolutely loved it and laughed his head off! We bought them obviously but it was only when we got to the counter that it said in big pink letters at the top "For Girls".

Well smurf that, if my boy wants to play with pom poms then he's damn well gonna play with pom poms.