Toy rant.

[danuv]

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.

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My parents were very conscious about buying gender neutral toys. I had lots of dolls and stuffed animals though. My brother and I played "political associatons" with them. They had a UN-like ruling council. This is what you get when you're one of the babies politicians hand around to kiss. Apart from that, my most memorable toy was a tonka cement truck. I hope that you can still get lots of totally neutral building toys like legos -I know they have gender specific adventure packs for legos now, but the basic blocks, well, a rectangle is a rectangle is a rectangle. I hope.