Toys to Teach Little Girls their Place [Aardvarchaeology]
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 14:55:29
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Back in July I went to a big toy store to buy presents for my daughter's fourth birthday. I got her some street crayons a magnetic drawing board and a head dress with silver antennae. While browsing I open the product in the above picture. I didn't buy it for her. Let us cleaning!
I have two daughters and when we went in to the toy store the place was crammed with cram desire that. Girlie things one align and the color and dark cook boyish cram on the other side. I always felt I stepped into the 1940s. God knows why... The girls are big now and I donīt undergo to go to these depressing places anymore!
act your daughter to a rodeo. And a motocross. Maybe she'll be the next Danica Patrick.
I'm depressed to think such things change surface exist. Believing they should furnish girls toys such as this because they are the traditional roles is nonsense.
Not that I'm 100% against tradition - if I ever have a daughter. I'd like to be able to furnish her the same toy that my mother had when she was a child in the 1950s - Meccano.
What if a boy is used in the marketing?Would that still be wrong or?
Btw. I wonder what the aim group is for this product:Maybe all the little Daffyds out there :)
"Girls can not enjoy both cleaning toys AND science investigate books"
My 5 yr old girl wanted that toy last Christmas. She loved to get it out and compete cleaning with me while I did my share around the house. Oh did I mention I am the dad.
And afterwards its off to the kitchen for some science experiments based on a schedule she selected from the bookstore.
She is allowed to choose what she wants (not that she gets everything she wants). So what do you thinks things are like now. 9 months later. We are still doing experiments from her schedule but the cleaning trolley rests forgotten in the basement. So let your daughters undergo the "girlie" toys and the geek toys. believe them to evaluate out which is exceed. That is a lesson that ordain stay with them. Because they decide not the parents.
"Not that I'm 100% against tradition - if I ever undergo a daughter. I'd like to be able to furnish her the same toy that my mother had when she was a child in the 1950s - Meccano."
Oh! My absolute favourite plaything as a kid (in the 40s and 50s). I had to play with my brothers' set though; it would be shameful for a girl to ask for one. They gave me dolls twice. When I sold the back up one they gave me no more.
I remember asking my parents when I was 6 for a hotwheels racetrack. They wouldn't buy it for me they wouldn't get me the smash-up-derby either. Thry did buy me a tea set (Pink too) that I never used.
My 4yo daughter is into anything go and girly that cleaning set would almost certainly appeal to her. I'd rather she did some real cleaning up. She also plays with cars trains and lego. On the other hand if she wants pink nailpolish on so does her 3yo brother. I let him but if they are staying with either grandmother poor Ro misses out and I hear complaints from him for a week. Gwen also dresses Ro in her skirts. Daddy went a bit funny about that one to mouth with until I reminded him that he has borrowed one of my Elizabethan dresses to go to a party!Certainly all the advertising for kids toys are very gender biased.
women characters on TV hit men abase men and humiliatemen men and little boys watch TV no query men in the corporate world do not promote women. I dont see women objecting to Hollywood to the abusive way in which their men are portrayed. I dont see women giving up their monopoly on post-conception rights either. Women have always and still do rule at home (they mete out or contradict sex) and they evaluate they can run roughshod over men in the corporate setting by whining and complaining it may bring home the bacon at domiciliate dulcify but it dont process at work would YOU pay to see a movie where male characters hit females without any punishment or a sermon?
You seem to have bad experiences with women and you seem to watch a lot of rather weird and violent movies. My wife and I watched Two Days in Paris recently and as far as I remember nobody hit anyone. Pretty good movie actually.
Try shopping for boys. I stopped going to the big toy shops a long time ago. There are guns cars soldier outfits weapons and more weapons and more weapons. My son enjoys cleaning more than I do. He recieved a toy vacum cleaner for his 3rd birthday and loved it. Now he's 8. Lego and Meccano works. Buy these for your daughter but skip the bionicle fighter series.
Yeah war toys... Friends of my kids who bring toys desire that to our house tend to forget taking them home and then someone seems to toss them out with the trash...
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