There have probably always been people who delight in finding something, ANYTHING, to be mad or faux outraged about. We have to believe social media has made that tendency even worse. Now all those wannabe Karens can record themselves having a tantrum about something and upload it for views and the hope of going viral for having a spicy take about something totally innocuous. That happened recently when a TikTok user named @goddess_domoo decided to film herself at Target, freaking out about the fact that the store was selling pink clothes for boys. The horror!
This TikToker has since deleted her account, and we're pretty sure we know why! Thanks to the beauty of the stitch function on TikTok, tons of other TikTok users have been responding to her original video and have called her out for her faux outrage.
We've been loving the callouts from other users pointing out just how ridiculous it is to decide that a major retailer selling boys' clothes in colors other than red and blue is some sort of plot to indoctrinate children or magically make all kids gay. It's all so silly, but it's still worth talking about why these kinds of videos should be called out for how actually harmful they could be, so let's get into it!
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The original video was a hot mess.
Although the original video has been deleted (because apparently having a viral video wasn't all its creator hoped it would be), we can see enough of it from the stich on @1minuterants response video to know it was eye-rollingly dumb. The woman walks around the boys' clothing section at Target, demanding to know from someone off camera if it was really the boys' section as she pulled up a super cute T-shirt and shorts set.
The set happens to be a perfectly spring pink color, which has her gasping in horror and claiming it was evidence that Target is "pushing the agenda to make our boys look like girls against our will," which is "just sick."
Or maybe it's just a shorts set in a fun color?
Here is where it might be a good point to include the detail that, according to some users, the woman who made the original video doesn't even have a son! Yep, that is some fake outrage for views behavior.
The woman is called 'so fragile,' and we agree!
The fact that she apparently doesn't have any sons is proof to her critics on TikTok that she is "pathetically fragile" and teaching her own kid to get "triggered by a color" when all she has to do is just … not buy the clothes she doesn't like.
As another TikToker noted in the comments, "It's Target, there's other options, these people are just mad that there's options now."
For what it's worth, the offending pink outfit was on a rack that included the same outfit in blue, green, and orange. No word yet on if boys are allowed to wear green and orange or if they can only grow up to be the most manly of men if they restrict their wardrobe to blue their entire lives.
Another user flipped the script to show how silly this all is.
"Oh my god, is this the girls' section?" exclaimed TikTok user @jolenedolo as she showed off how "sick" Target is for having things like Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokémon dresses in the girls section. Her caption cheekily noted that "if this makes you mad, just know I'm talking about someone's video about the boy section and flipping the roles so you can see how dumb it sounds. If you think girls should be able to wear what they want, please keep that same energy for your sons."
Yes!
A few people in the comments kept the snarky sarcasm going, including one who clutched imaginary pearls and demanded, "it's time we put the MAN back in SpiderMAN and PokieMAN" and another who wrote, "Lol wtf girls can't like Spider-Man."
Obviously, everyone knows that all girls can ONLY like unicorns and princesses.
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Let's all remember that pink is just a color, OK?
Although we can never be sure if the woman who posted the original video was actually seriously offended by the idea of pink clothes for boys or if she was just trying to get views, it is important to remember that videos like this can actually cause harm.
This is how toxic masculinity is spread as well as the idea that things coded as "girl things" are somehow inferior to boys' stuff. It tells boys who like pink that there is something wrong with them. That's not OK and it's just plain not accurate.
Even though there may be cultural or societal associations with certain colors, such as pink being associated with femininity, these associations are not inherent to the colors themselves. Clothing does not have a gender, and kids should feel free to wear whatever clothes they feel comfortable in, regardless of societal gender norms — especially if that item is on the clearance rack at Target.
