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By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:05:55 +0000

I work at a day spa that hosts “Diva” birthday parties for young girls. The party room is pink and purple, as is our dress code, but I tend to find that the blue, green, gold and other not-strictly-”girly” nail polishes are really popular, sometimes more so than the pinks and reds. I also enjoy asking the girls what their favorite color is– many of the very young ones (4-5) will say something like pink or purple, but as they get older I find that their favorite colors tend to vary more, with more than a few girls telling me that they like too many colors to choose. By age 8-10ish, I rarely get pink for an answer, though purple isn’t uncommon. I’ve had girls whose favorite colors are orange or yellow or even black. Not really sure what that says about genderization, but I certainly find it interesting.

By: “Gender Advertisements” in the Korean Context: Part 1 « The Grand Narrative

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:32:10 +0000

[...] embarrassment compared to the relatively gender-neutral tone of the early-1980s (compare these to this, this, and this), and also there is now so much partial nudity in advertisements that several [...]

By: Gender, Technology, and Toys R Us » Sociological Images

Gender, Technology, and Toys R Us » Sociological Images — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:24:37 +0000

[...] up on a previous post about gendered gift giving guides at Lego and Toys R Us, I discovered something [...]

By: TJay

TJay — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:01:15 +0000

Is it that surprising? The fact is that in general girls like Barbies, dolls, and crafts more, while boys like hot wheels and tools. Whether that’s socialization or not is irrelevant from the store’s point of view; it’s just good business to cater to demand.

By: Butter

Butter — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:17:28 +0000

I checked out the Toys R’ Us Canada (http://www.toysrus.ca/) page and they do not make you have to browse by gender. But, if you scroll down the first page they give a few category ideas by gender. Boys get Action Figures, Electronics, & Trains. While girls get Baby Dolls, Houses & Castles, and Crafts.

Also, once you start browsing you can narrow you search by gender. I found that it didn’t make much of a difference except that girl results had more Barbie’s and Brats and boys had more toy guns. There was a lot of cross over (science toys, cameras, playmobile…).

So, the Canadian site isn’t great, but it doesn’t force you to look by gender.

By: Ben Zvan

Ben Zvan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:46:15 +0000

My wife relates her experience with LEGO and gender roles: http://almostdiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/01/oh-lego_18.html

By: Pansy

Pansy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:42:48 +0000

I decided about a year and a half ago that I would not take my (now 2 year old) daughter to Toys R Us. The main toy aisle has a “Girls” side and a “Boys” side. The girls’ side is dolls, pink and cleaning appliances. The boys’ side is action figures, sporting equipment, music equipment and tools.

My daughter’s going to get gendered marketing from every direction. I decided I didn’t need to add to the problem. Luckily, we live somewhere with a number of independent toy stores that aren’t nearly as blatant about it. And in the meantime, she’s delighted to play with her trucks, cars, kitchen and tricycle.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:30:34 +0000

Alt. spelling.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:41:01 +0000

That is horrifying! Maybe they were hard up for boy toys and wanted to even it out? Still – from all the TJ Maxx stores I’ve been in, I don’t remember there being a big distance between the girl and boy clothes section, why not just have toys in the middle without the distinction?

By: Shana

Shana — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:32:26 +0000

When I shop for my eight year old daughter, I look at both. So I first search the girl option, then the boy option. She often likes the “boy” option selections better than the “girl” options. As she says, “Barbie just doesn’t do it for me.”

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:21:50 +0000

Why the hyphen in no-one?

Sorry…

By: d'glenn

d'glenn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:43:10 +0000

What, you mean to ‘say that an apo’strophe doe’snt mean “Look out! An ‘s’ i’s coming!”?

By: Trains are for Boys and Dolls are for Girls | Xenia Institute

Trains are for Boys and Dolls are for Girls | Xenia Institute — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:34:29 +0000

[...] blog called Sociological Images posted this screen capture of the process of buying legos, which seems to be as gender neutral a [...]

By: Reba

Reba — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:11:53 +0000

http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/swedish_children_push_back_on_gender_stereotyping

Makes me glad I’m Swedish.

By: Bagelsan

Bagelsan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:39:57 +0000

Another option they could use would simply be “FRIST!!1″