Comments on: What Kids Learn at Toys ‘R Us

By: TOY R US | Electronics Find

TOY R US | Electronics Find — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:45:42 +0000

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By: hazhar

hazhar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:48:27 +0000

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By: PINK AND FEMININITY » Sociological Images

PINK AND FEMININITY » Sociological Images — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:57:34 +0000

[...] also this post of kids with their stuff, these pictures of the Toys ‘R Us aisles, these breast cancer PSAs, and these guns marketed to [...]

By: WHERE GENDER STEREOTYPES COME FROM » Sociological Images

WHERE GENDER STEREOTYPES COME FROM » Sociological Images — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:45:19 +0000

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By: Review: Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie « YA Fabulous » keeping it awesome since 2007

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:06:50 +0000

[...] and Play-Doh. Go on; I’ll wait. It’s pretty easy to tell because toy aisles are fucking color coded. My problem is thus: girls don’t see themselves in the world of Peter Pan as anything other [...]

By: the

the — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:59:50 +0000

i have to say, i love action figures (yes, i am a girl).
actually i love anything like action figures, video games, comic books etc.
anyways, since im pretty much always found in the library, i can tell you that occasionally they have signs up there too “girls series” and “boys series”.
also in books stores they have the same. i went into one once (only once, hah) and they had those signs up, and i was sooo tempted to walk up to the desk person and ask them why.

By: Duskkodesh

Duskkodesh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:37:29 +0000

Try being a 25 year-old female gamer/toy collector.

I walked into the electronics section at a Target, (The ELECTRONICS section for pete’s sake!) only to catch the tail end of a conversation between a teenage guy and his girlfriend.

Her: Shut up! They do not!
Him: Yes they do! My brother has a female friend that plays Wii!
Her: Girls do not play games!

I almost knocked her gum-chewing, mouth-breathing, purse-twirling ass over, as I went straight to the display of Fallout 3.

By: Contemplating octopus-inspired flash drives « The Oyster’s Garter

Contemplating octopus-inspired flash drives « The Oyster’s Garter — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:12:47 +0000

[...] pastel pink and blue is too self-conciously cute and irritatingly gender-coded for my taste – but as a consumer of lolcats I don’t really much moral high ground. And hey, [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:16:14 +0000

“these areas don’t have to be labeled ‘boys’ and ‘girls.’ They are labeled as such by societal norms.”
Clothing areas are marked with signs that decree gender and age. Without signage I would expect this blog to say something like the sections are marketed towards boys/girls or have boys/girls in quotes. Explicitly labeling sections as boy and girl when they weren’t previously enforces the societal norm that I would think this blog would seek to change.

“Not many boys are likely to enter the pink aisles because the punishments for doing so are more severe than for girls to be interested in ‘boy’ things. It’s a lot more acceptable in our society for a girl to be a ‘tomboy’ than for a boy to be a ‘sissy.’”
Which is why I commented; “I doubt many boys would go to the pink aisles, but a girl in the Star Wars aisle wouldn’t surprise me.”

By: jenken

jenken — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:46:03 +0000

Thanks for this post. My husband and I were floored when we recently visited the tonka website to check out stuff for our 3 1/2 yo daughter. Needless to say, tonka won’t be getting my dollars because, you know, tonka is “built for boyhood”… Subtle? Not so much.

By: Breck

Breck — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:44:56 +0000

Color-coded gender kids in the wild here.

By: Hamster

Hamster — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 +0000

Reminds me of the other day at work, lifeguarding at a busy city pool. I was working in the bag room, and a mother came up with her children, one boy and one girl, who couldn’t have been either more than two. she asked for a swim diaper, and when asked what size, she said the smallest one we have, and a FEMALE one. Now, our swim diapers are, like most swim diapers i am guessing, unisex, so i brought her a size small and asked if it was a good size, and she snapped that she wanted a GIRL’S diaper. (i guess her daughter might have been scandalized by having finding nemo print under her zebra print bikini). then she insisted that her daughter have a girly life jacket and her son have an orange one, even though the orange one was too big for him and the purple flower power one would have been safer and more comfortable. while i was a bit annoyed with the woman (mainly because she was rude) the incident made me frustrated with our culture which views gender roles as necessary and important. it’s like that all the time…..i don’t know how to feel when people call me sweetie or when men open the door for me because i love friendliness and courtesy but hate the culture that inspired our notions of courtesy.

By: Le

Le — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:32:02 +0000

The girls section is just pink overkill!!! Remind me not to take my nieces there. I will go blind!!!

By: Martin W.

Martin W. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:50:13 +0000

I like the aisle names, i.e. clearance on the feminine side versus star wars on the masculine side.

By: 73man

73man — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:26:00 +0000

About three months ago, my girlfriend and I went to buy some clothes for my newly born nephew. We couldn’t get any other colour other than pink or blue in the four stores we went to. I blame the parents.