Lost: Boys hat in Park Slope

[yesthattom]

http://www.gawker.com/news/park-slope/ the-park-slope-hat-spat-read-all-the-emails-166214.php

New York mag has a cute front-of-book item today on an only-in-Park-Slope battle that recently raged on an email list for earnest and progressive parents in that earnestly progressive Brooklyn neighborhood.

A few weeks ago, a member of the Park Slope Parents e-mail forum who’d encountered a stray piece of winterwear in the neighborhood posted a notice to the group titled “Found: boy’s hat.” … [S]ubscriber “Lisa” went public with her problems regarding the gender-specifying description of the hat.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

So I'm the only one who thinks that the original comment was not an unreasonable one? I still don't know what a "boy's hat" is.

[ayse.livejournal.com]

It's not the "what is a boy's hat" issue -- which is valid, because that's a stupid way of describing any hat -- but the fact that somebody got so upset and felt the need to bring it up as a topic of debate when the original post was just a lost and found posting.

Tolerance has to go both ways, and this was one of those harmless moments as far as gender identification goes.