{"id":3852,"date":"2012-12-13T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:58:44","slug":"class-war-in-the-toy-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/12\/13\/class-war-in-the-toy-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Class War in the Toy Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3853\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/japan_style\/4289953200\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3853\" title=\"HI3G0001\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2012\/12\/Wammy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new, educational toy from Japan, Wammy. Photo by japan_style via flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the holidays bringing so much attention to our shopping habits and stores, many odd trends are bound to crop up. One <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/2012\/12\/09\/desegregating-the-toy-store\/\">recent Citing<\/a>, for instance, looked at the long-standing gender-segregation of toy aisles. Now we spot another toy divide, perhaps as pervasive, but harder to notice: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/09\/nyregion\/the-great-class-divide-as-seen-in-the-toy-aisle.html?ref=giniabellafante&amp;_r=0\"><em>New York Times<\/em> argues toy stores divide kids by class<\/a>, too.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The piece explains that the emergence of larger toy retailers like Toys \u201cR\u201d Us has made toys with a focus on enrichment or learning more rare&#8212;they\u2019re more likely found at small, specialty stores. The problem is that these smaller, more upscale stores are mostly found in affluent areas. The article\u2019s author, Ginia Bellafante, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the way that we have considered food deserts&#8212;those parts of the city in which stores seem to stock primarily the food groups Doritos and Pepsi&#8212;we might begin to think, in essence, about toy deserts and the implications of a commercial system in which the least-privileged children are choked off from the recreations most explicitly geared toward creativity and achievement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Research on how much these \u201dhigh-class\u201d toys actually help in child development is inconclusive, but it\u2019s easy to infer the toy gap may add to both the education gap and the class divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the holidays bringing so much attention to our shopping habits and stores, many odd trends are bound to crop up. One recent Citing, for instance, looked at the long-standing gender-segregation of toy aisles. Now we spot another toy divide, perhaps as pervasive, but harder to notice: the New York Times argues toy stores divide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[17292,2463,29,131,34,3259],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sightings","tag-achievement-gap","tag-childhood","tag-class","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-play"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2012\/12\/Wammy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}