Cute video
Dec. 26th, 2011 05:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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SOMEbody is very concerned with toy marketing and the color pink.
There are two types of comments here. The first runs "Well, you can buy a boy girl toys, or a girl boy toys, so it doesn't matter". This one is so frustrating that I have no coherent response to it.
The other goes "Oh, there's no way this kid made this observation herself, she's just parroting". To that I say "So what?" Okay, maybe she's not, and likely she is - but again, so what? How do you expect children to learn your values if you don't talk with them about them? (And if she'd decided she wanted a pink princess tea set because that's what she'd seen on TV or that's what Grandma pushed on her, that would be... what, exactly? Not parroting?)
But regardless, it's still a nifty video.
There are two types of comments here. The first runs "Well, you can buy a boy girl toys, or a girl boy toys, so it doesn't matter". This one is so frustrating that I have no coherent response to it.
The other goes "Oh, there's no way this kid made this observation herself, she's just parroting". To that I say "So what?" Okay, maybe she's not, and likely she is - but again, so what? How do you expect children to learn your values if you don't talk with them about them? (And if she'd decided she wanted a pink princess tea set because that's what she'd seen on TV or that's what Grandma pushed on her, that would be... what, exactly? Not parroting?)
But regardless, it's still a nifty video.
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Date: 2011-12-27 12:24 am (UTC)SO MUCH YES.
Date: 2011-12-27 01:55 am (UTC)I had hand-me-down Barbies from my cousins, and I proceeded to stripe one's hair with green and yellow poster paints for a Punk Rock Barbie. (I don't believe Mattel got around to that for decades to come. And then it was of course PINK hair.)