# Slate article: Don't assign gender to infants

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-article-dont-assign-gender-to-infants/691972>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 30, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-article-dont-assign-gender-to-infants/691972 "2014-06-30T00:17:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-article-dont-assign-gender-to-infants/691972/41 "2014-07-01T16:33:38Z")

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> [@Zsofia](#):
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> I admit one of the reasons I was kind of disappointed to hear it’s a boy is that I had no intention of repainting the nursery (it’s blue) and we’d decided to do it up in rocket ships, and I was looking forward to looking down on people who were surprised. And now that it’s a boy, of course, nobody is.

Maybe you could paint pink hearts on all the rockets.

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