Gender Neutral

BA took me out for a lovely dinner tonight.  He was out of town last week at training and said that I deserved to be treated because I was couped up on bedrest by myself.  We went to Maggiano's and had a wonderful meal.  At the table next to us was a party of six plus an adorable baby with little wisps of blonde hair.  Both sets of grandparents were at the table, in addition to the parents, and they were all passing the little baby around. The baby was dressed in blue jeans with a horizontal red and blue stripped sweater and was so well behaved and smiled at everyone.  After dinner BA and I saw the dad rocking the baby outside the restaurant, and I asked "how old is he?"  The dad said, "It's actually a girl, we're trying to go gender neutral, and she's 7 months."  Oops!  Foot in mouth.  Gender Neutral???  I understand that parents get tired of all the pink and purple, but slap a red bow on the little girl's head for goodness sake so I don't look like a jerk calling your practically-bald baby girl a baby boy!  I have no doubt that the little girl will be very pretty one day, after all both parents were attractive people.  But right now she had very little hair, and by the way, red and blue on a baby, are boy's colors - not gender neutral.  I rest my case.