Yes, bring back manly men. Like, just look at this wimpy kid in a frilly dress and long curls.

One day he'll be the greatest President who ever lived and pull the United States through a Great Depression and World War 2.

What a wuss. https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1327691891303976961

Yes, that's a picture of FDR as a baby.

Back in the Victorian era, little boys and little girls both had long hair and wore long dresses. There was very little distinction between them until about age 7-8, when boys would get their first haircut and wear trousers.

3/ Both boys and girls were wearing lacy dresses until about the turn of the 20th century, when pediatricians started to understand the importance of children getting exercise.

Before then, parents kept their kids inactive to prevent them from spoiling their lacy clothes.

4/ Pediatricians started then pushing parents to instead allow their kids to wear practical clothes, let them run outside, and actually bathe them instead of trying to prevent them from getting dirty.

This is when rompers came in style, because of how practical they were.

5/ White, pink, and blue were used interchangeably as colors for children's clothes.

In fact, pink was used more often for boys, and blue was seen as a preferred color for girls. This was the case until about the 1950s.

6/ There was very little consideration, if any, on how children were 'gendered'--until Freud's studies were popularized in the 1920s.

These studies revealed to the public that the first years of a child's life could indeed impact their development as adults.

7/ When Freud's studies were published, this inspired a nationwide anxiety on how kids were being raised.

The brunt of this anxiety was not directed at girls, but at boys. They believed that a girl should not be mistaken for a boy and a boy should NEVER be mistaken for a girl.

8/ This increased anxiety to ensure that children under the age of 7-8 were being properly "gendered", aka that girls were playing with dolls and that boys were playing with cars. This didn't exist before the 1920s.

Even so, clothing for kids was still fairly gender neutral.

9/ The big nail in the coffin came when the first ultrasounds were performed. Parents were now, suddenly, able to know the sex of their baby months before it was born.

This had a massive impact. Corporations were now able to rake in profits by selling pink and blue baby items.

10/ So Candace Owens doesn't only have this wrong, she has it backwards.

Kids are being rigidly sorted into gender roles by the clothes they are wearing more in the past few decades than at any point in US history.

11/ (Thank you Victorian Literature seminar this is the first time you're actually coming to good use lol)