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

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

wow... I'm not sure how I feel about the whole exchange. I mean, yeah, the woman was trying to do a good deed, and the first reply was someone trying to point out that exclusive language isn't the best way of describing things.. but.. damn.