I’m not one of those people who pretends to hate saying “I told you so.” I love it. So here it is: I told you that the parents of the so-called “genderless baby”* were shameless attention seekers. I was completely right, as evidenced by the fact that the baby’s mother has now regaled us with an article filled with a string of inanities as to how color preferences and dress choices in small children have something to do with gender. Or sex. Or something else that is unidentified but still vaguely threatening. Crowds of people buy pink clothes for little boys and let them grow their hair out. Very few, however, manage to make such a huge deal out of it.

I am shocked by the hypocrisy of a person who first sticks a newborn in front of the cameras, then does everything she can to keep the story alive, and in the end has the gall to congratulate herself on declining to be interviewed. Of course, who needs to answer questions when you can just offer monologues instead. I have strong suspicion that we will soon see a book on “genderless” upbringing of infants touted on Oprah or whatever show is scheduled to substitute it.

* A ridiculous linguistic construction that ignores the basics of psychology. All babies are “genderless” and, as even very ignorant people know, gender identifications are only formed by the age of 3.