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Course it's the frickin' parents doing the buying part... the kids will probably be fine with whatever the parents are fine with!
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05-24-2016, 10:10 AM
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Nope nope nope nope. We've never bothered with gendered anything (more because we're lazy than any kind of active choice,) but each of my kids came home one day (Kinder for the boy, first grade for the girl) declaring, quite emphatically, that they didn't want girly/boyly (yes, that's the word she uses) things.
The kids are fine with what their friends are fine with. It takes all the parents being okay with it at once, which is a shift that takes more than one movie's product tie-ins. |
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05-24-2016, 10:12 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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A lotof this stuff is based on assumptions that don;t bear out in the real world. For instance, when the compute game, The Last of Us was about to go live, the publishers and distributers didn't want the female character to be shown on the box, despite her being a lead character, because they said, according to their consultations, boys and young men would be put off from buying the game i fthey thought it was a 'girl's game' and the presence of a female main character (as opposed to female set dressing) would give that impression. The makers stuck to their guns, she was shown on the box, and the game broke sales records and became a massive hit, with both male and female gamers.
It is absolutely the case that girls are often a lot more comfortable with, and subject to a lot less stigma for, playing with 'boys' toys than are the boys playing with girls' toys. But - kids of both gender seem perfectly fine playing with neutral toys that aren't specifically marketed at one or the other gender. The problem is that toy makers routinely market film tie-ins and action figures in a highly gendered way, whereas if they marketed them simply as toys, rather than as boys toys, they could bring in both boys and girls. Quote:
Boys may not want a doll and girls may not want an action man, but there's no reason why they might not both want lego. And there's no reason why theymight not both want figures from the most popular movie on the cinema screen, if it's being watched by both girls and boys and has both male and female characters. And it may well end up with the boys mainly playing with the male characters, and the girls mainly playing with the female characters - but if they're both playing with characters from that movie then the toymaker will make money.
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05-25-2016, 08:24 AM
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Seattle Pride
We're waaaay gayer than you. . .
Um, that kinda came out wrong. . 
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05-25-2016, 11:48 PM
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The future is unwritten
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The men who designer safety measures for war workers were determined to save the TaTas.
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05-26-2016, 09:26 AM
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That looks uncomfortable to work in.
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05-26-2016, 10:09 AM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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I saw a comment once about cosplay "breast armor" that if someone falls down while wearing it, the cleavage bit (which is, of course, a ridge on the inside) can crush your ribcage, and they wince whenever they see a costume like that.
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05-30-2016, 02:50 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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hahahah. That's frikkin brilliant
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05-30-2016, 06:17 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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OOPS! I forgot the critical reviews.
1.0 out of 5 stars Missing the batteries ByM.on August 28, 2012 I can't find a switch to turn it on, and it didn't come with batteries. This is not the "for her" product I was expecting. At all. More
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06-01-2016, 01:07 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Margaret Knight invented the first machine to make square bottom paper bags, and it only took a few months, along and a $100 a day(1871) patent lawyer, to get her credit.
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06-21-2016, 03:17 PM
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Please choose your gender:
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06-24-2016, 12:01 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Wow. That was very moving.
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