Cool and Geeky Gender-Neutral Item of the Month

Geeky fun shouldn't be reserved for the boys. I am constantly angered when I find monsters, spaceships, and dinosaurs classified in the "boy's" section of stores. Dinosaurs were my absolute favorite as a kid. And sabre-toothed tigers. Rocket ships may not have been my thing, but planets! Absolutely.

So I am always delighted when I find ungendered clothing and toys with geeky undertones. Sure, I can always cross the invisible gender line and buy whatever I feel like for my girls, but what a relief it is when I find a vendor who seems to understand, like I do, that the appeal of bugs and frogs and things transcends all gender divisions.

This week: Alphabet T-shirts!



My favorite from ABCD Tees is the jellyfish pictured here. Runner-up: the seahorse. (Yes, I had an aquarium as a child, how did you guess?) But they also have crabs, katydids, dragonflies...and newts! Awesome. If you prefer something a little more mainstream, zoologically speaking, there's also elephants, rhinos, and alligators.

The realistic dictionary-art style of the images is what makes these t-shirts extra-geeky for me. They might not be the most stylish, but that doesn't make them any less cute.