My daughter (nearly age 7) has had “firefighter” as her career goal for at least two years. (I have serious doubts that she will ever pass the physical as she is chronically underweight and consistently has low muscle tone. I have never told her that, and will only do so if this is still an issue when she is a young adult.)

She has a firefighter costume that I bought her last year for “career day” in kindergarten, when they were supposed to dress up like what they wanted to be when they grew up. She wants it to be her Halloween costume this year. It is “fire engine” red, with reflect-y yellow and silver stripes. She wears it with black rain boots.

I think if I had seen this pink costume while shopping I would have had to scream at someone.

She wants to BE a firefighter. Not a firefighter cheerleader.

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