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What do I find for a girl who is creative and interested in real robotics and animals?
Check out Scouting websites. Although they do a lot of pink too (because it's the most popular color for girls), they also have more natural colors. Most Boy and Girl Scout shops carry science sets - and you DON'T have to be a scout to purchase anything.
IWhat do I find for a girl who is creative and interested in real robotics and animals?
Retailers assume that all little girls are the same. Tell that to DD when she was 4 and decided she didn't like dolls, dressing up, or playing house anymore. Where are the toys then? Pink or not, I agree with the issue beyond the color pink.
One of my favorite shopping sites is ThinkGeek. They have some very fun stuff for kids.
I like pink, too, but I still wish there was more variety of colors for girl clothing. I don't think it's related to body image at all, but I think there is a valid point that there is something a little troubling about companies pushing gendered colors. It's hard to separate out demand from supply: does everyone buying all these pink colors always want pink, or is it just that pink is just so readily available? Again, nothing wrong with the color pink itself, but the bigger issue isn't just that marketers think that girls like pink, but that there does seem to be a fairly narrow definition among many (certainly not all) retailers that girls have certain interests and act a certain way.
Far more annoying than the pink thing is the emphasis on princesses. Everything these days is princess this, princess that. I enjoyed princesses when I was a little girl, too, but today it seems to have gone over the top.
I do wish there were more toys that were unisex... LIKE LEGOS! My girls aren't into fighting or guns but the love LEGOS! For Christmas we wanted to get them each a set.... the only FEMALE type of lego was a big pink box filled with peices. There were no sets! It was all astronauts with guns, pirates with cannons, race car stuff... My girls aren't into that kind of stuff. It would be nice if companies like LEGO acknowledged that GIRLS would like to build as well..... it was odd to go into this HUGE lego store and among the black and white boxes find this one bright pink box for girls.....
I want that shirt too!
we just bought the guitar shirt you can play for my bro for christmas.
might go buy another for all the other guys so they can shirt jam together.
HA!
FYI... most of those pink appliances are made that way so that you know that you are paying extra for them to donate to breast cancer. No thanks! I'd rather buy a black mixer, spend $30 less and donate that dollar to whatever cause I choose! - But someone must be buying that stuff, or it wouldn't be getting made!
Guilty!
If I need to replace something, and there is a pink BC version and around if not the same price, as the non pink BC one, then I will get the pink one, I even opted for my state BC liscense plate, which is bright pink and blue.
I willingly choose to donate to BC though, and it one of my chairities of choice, so the new BC pink crazy is cool for me, lol.
I can't tell you how many people I've met that insisted that they hated pink and would never dress their child in that color - Until someone mistakenly calls their green swadled newborn a boy - Then they can't run to the store to by pink clothes fast enough!!
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