liberal or conservative or just opportunist!

No, I'm not going to blog about politics....I was just wondering, as sometimes happens, about things. Well, when Oscar was a newborn baby, ages ago -it seems, people that saw him outside with my mum used to say: what a beautiful little girl you have! And every time, my mum had to correct them and say: well actually it is a boy! Sometimes my mum made a point of dressing him all blue (quite difficult, for his wardrobe contained very few blue clothes), and STILL people of the street would compliment my mum on her beautiful little girl and then just excuse themselves when they found out Oscar was a boy, saying: nowadays people dress their babies in any colour so it's impossible to guess their sex by the colour they are wearing!
So, when I was born and my parents were faced with either buying a whole new wardrobe of clothes for me, or just re-use Oscar's clothes, even if they were "boy-clothes", they had no difficulty making the choice. We are liberal, people (it seems) are liberal, and whatif our little girl is dressed once in a while in something very boyish, they thought! And what is the result? Now that we walk the streets of PsP, me wearing the same clothes that gained Oscar the girlish comments: people compliment my mum continuously on her beautiful little boy! And when my mum correct them and tell them that I'm actually a girl, they excuse themselves and say: well, dressed in blue I just thought it was a boy!
Either the people of the Bergamo province are much more conservative when it comes to infant-dress-colour-code, than the people of Pavia (where Oscar passed his infant months) or people in general are opportunist that excuse themselves with liberal or conservative slogans depending on what comes in handy for them!
Maybe my mum should knit me a hat that says: My name is Irene and I'm a girl!