He's a boy, right, Kitty? Because girls are "cute" when they still wear little girl stuff like monkeys and kittens. But for boys...yeah.
Everybody talks about how girls pick on each other about clothes, but the boys really are just as harsh, if not harsher. I had a first-grader reduced to tears because the other boys hassled him for wearing a pink shirt. My sons won't even wear a polo shirt or anything with buttons, 'cause those are for dorks...
Oh noes! Fast forward to tenth grade and pink polo shirts are extremely cool. I thought button-down shirts were trendy! Around here flannel shirts in weird colors like turquoise and magenta and purple are quite trendy for little and big kids. Children are so cute, when they aren't busy being savage
Yes, it's a boy. The MC and his friends (boys and girls) are trying to navigate the horrors of the sixth grade social scene, and they're feeling cool enough, but babyish t-shirts kid is seriously messing up their game. (I don't know if I'm qualified to write about such subjects...I spent all my free time in 6th grade with either the math club or the chess club!)
No, there's nothing wrong with Spot the Dog. But when you're 11, it's best to hide your Spot fandom, I think.