Toy rant.

My mother took me to Toys R Us today to shop for Rhiannon's birthday presents. It irks me how totally gender based everything seems to be. Even the building sets are gender-ized now, house building sets in pretty girly colors for the chics and construction crew or alien space hero sets for the boys. Grrr. She asked for a 'workout Care Bear' and luckily they seem to advertise to both boys and girls. My nephew is an avid Care Bear fan. At least Rhiannon hasn't seemed to show any interest in those Bratz dolls because there's no way on earth I'm buying her any prostitot toys. It's bad enough that her friends are into some sort of Cheetah Girls thing, which by the looks of the dvd I picked up today involves preteens dressed in provocative clothing singing and dancing. Argh.