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I'm worried and/or saddened by how gendered it all is. I'm guessing it's not the NY Times' fault but probably how the designers of this product think that's sh
by toothbrush 11y ago
I'm worried and/or saddened by how gendered it all is. I'm guessing it's not the NY Times' fault but probably how the designers of this product think that's shining through. It seems that for all our AI and fancy electronic toys we're still in the '50s as a civilisation. It keeps talking about girls this girls that, while i wonder, can't we just talk about children? Is it really beneficial to foist these binary and dare i say reductionist gender roles on impressionable kids? I guess many people have a vested interest in doing that, but it'd be great if it could be toned down a bit, at least.
- nsxwolf 11y agoMy wife and I enjoy buying gendered toys for our children, and our children prefer them. It could be an innate preference or one conditioned by us, but we don't care and don't lose any sleep over it. Our children are happy. We don't discourage them from playing with each other's toys, and they do, but they exhibit a clear gender bias. There's still a lot of parents like us.
- sandworm101 11y agoI'd say that mattel is following the market on this one. Toys is a competitive industry chasing a fickle consumer. Surely every toy is heavily focus grouped. Children at doll-playing age, imho, lend themselves to binary extremes. They don't do subtlety. Either they like something to death or hate it with a passion. So the toy that sells is that which takes the image to an extreme.