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GREENS Senator Larissa Waters has urged Christmas shoppers to rethink buying bright pink jewellery or dolls for little girls, linking gender-stereotyped toys to domestic violence and pay inequality.

 

The minor partyโ€™s gender spokeswoman has endorsed the โ€˜No Gender Decemberโ€™ campaign, set up by grassroots group Play Unlimited, which calls on retailers to stop using old-fashioned gender stereotypes as marketing ploys this Christmas.

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its chaotic enough as it is during christmas -

lets just remove all the signs and labels,  dont worry

about gender specific b'day cards, lets throw all kids

clothing/footwear  together as well and just send the

kids shopping Woman LOL

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@lurker172602 wrote:
I dunno, maybe she's onto something. I don't remember little girls being anywhere near as pink as they are now when my kids were little, about 30 years ago.
And I did notice signs in (I think it was) K-M recently pointing out the boys isle and girls isle in the toy section.

Yes, I agree.  We've been talking about this recently.  One girl wants a pink truck because she likes pink at the moment but aside from that the marketing is so much more gendered these days.  The message is clearly kitchens are for girls and trucks are for girls and the assumption is that everything for girls should be pink and most things for boys should be drab cacky colours.  The toy lanes are divided with signs to indicate girls and boys.  Last year my nephew wanted a toy kitchen.

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The toy lanes are divided with signs to indicate girls and boys.

 

 

 

i went to a major toys store recently looking

for b'day presents but i didn't see any signs.

yes, the toys are segregated but no signs.

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

The toy lanes are divided with signs to indicate girls and boys.

 

 

 

i went to a major toys store recently looking

for b'day presents but i didn't see any signs.

yes, the toys are segregated but no signs.


Well good for you. I went to one recently and was actually surprised to see boy/girl signs in the toy dept.

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Well good for you.

 

 

lol, not exactly.  i would have appreciated

the signs Woman LOL

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Wherever it was I saw it they had signs hanging above the aisles saying Boys Toys and Girls Toys. Just like the ones that say Manchester and Outdoors and Video or whatever.
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Yesterday we went into the next town to go to Toyworld. I wanted a "My first Laptop" for my great-grandson, but --- alas--- they only had them in PINK. Shopowner rang another Toyworld, and ys, they had another colour. It was green. No blue ones were available. Only pink and green.

 

So off we went on a 1ยฝ hour round trip to get a green toy for a three year old boy.

 

That would have pleased the Greens Senator. That lady should be more concerned about the game "Grand Theft Auto 5"

 

Erica

 

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While I understand the stance on stereotypical toys, I don't see the connection with domestic violence and pay inequality. One of my girls loved pink,and still does, while the other has always loathed the colour pink.

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

While I understand the stance on stereotypical toys, I don't see the connection with domestic violence and pay inequality. One of my girls loved pink,and still does, while the other has always loathed the colour pink.


neither do i.

there is absolutely no evidence to support that.

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

While I understand the stance on stereotypical toys, I don't see the connection with domestic violence and pay inequality.


I guess there is connection if girls are taught, even by implication only,  that they are not as good as boys, that the expression "girl" is an insult.  That pink is for girls and boy would not be seen dead with anything pink.  Pay inequality just confirms that.   Woman that is financially depended on her violent partner is less likely to get out of the situation. 

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