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Girls shouldn't buy pink ..
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What will they decide to ban next? Haven't they got a life ? Blue for boys I suppose.
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It's not so much the colour preference as what it stands for. Back in the 1980s retailers and toy/clothing manufacturers began to shift away from the stereotyping of stuff for boys and girls. Now it seems they're going back to it. Girls, according to marketing lore, are pretty, pink-wearing princesses and boys go on adventures, wear strong colours and build things.
A retailer was on BBC this morning saying, albeit truthfully, that he only sells what kids ask for, but it's the marketing and advertising people who tell them what to want.
People have complained for years that not enough women go into engineering and technology. Is it any wonder when they're encouraged to surround their worlds with all things pink, pretty and fluffy - including their role models?
A retailer was on BBC this morning saying, albeit truthfully, that he only sells what kids ask for, but it's the marketing and advertising people who tell them what to want.
People have complained for years that not enough women go into engineering and technology. Is it any wonder when they're encouraged to surround their worlds with all things pink, pretty and fluffy - including their role models?
i like the fact that ELC do different colours in some products. My son wants a doll and pushchair but says that he wants a blue one. I have never said that pink is for girls etc and yet he sees it all on tv, with fashion, with dolls etc.
At least offering pink or blue is bridging the whole girl / boy divide. Who is saying these pink products are aimed at girls though, perhaps boys are requesting pink things?
At least offering pink or blue is bridging the whole girl / boy divide. Who is saying these pink products are aimed at girls though, perhaps boys are requesting pink things?
I have to say, my own son loves pink, too and, in fact, it suits him very well. When he was little, he had a pink bedroom and chose the occasional item of pink clothing. His dad is also a pink lover, not the least because it makes certain not-so-nice people in the course of his work feel very uneasy and that puts him at a slight advantage..
As I said, it's not so much the colour (although I don't like it and it doesn't suit me at all), just the whole pretty, frilly, princessy gender stereotyping of female role models - and conversely, the macho stereotyping of male ones too.
As I said, it's not so much the colour (although I don't like it and it doesn't suit me at all), just the whole pretty, frilly, princessy gender stereotyping of female role models - and conversely, the macho stereotyping of male ones too.
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