Eryn and I were shopping this evening at Nordstrom Rack, perusing the multitude of shoes. One aisle over, I heard a young boy exclaim to his mother, "Look at all the pretty shoes the girls get to wear! How come the boys don't have all these shoes? All we get is boring shoes!" He sounded around 5 or 6 years old. Didn't get a chance to hear the mother's reply, as they were moving away from me, but Eryn confirmed it was indeed a little boy who was talking. So, was this a defining moment for a TG child, or just a little boy blurting out the truth--women DO have a bigger and prettier selection of shoes, and it isn't fair!
Not ten minutes later, I heard a young couple shopping for shoes. She had selected a pair. He commented, "Wow! If they had these in guy sizes, I'd live in them all day! They look so comfortable!" Didn't see what the shoes looked like, but I was tempted to tell him to think outside the (shoe) box and check the size 12 shelves in the women's section.
So all in all an interesting evening. Oh, and we came away with a pair of sandals for Eryn and a pair of sandal/sneaker style shoes for me, so also a productive evening.