I agree with you that this article is a tiresome attempt to spot-weld an archaeological subject interesting in itself to the gender-and-power fad. However, with

I agree with you that this article is a tiresome attempt to spot-weld an archaeological subject interesting in itself to the gender-and-power fad. However, with regard to this: > If you can look at a toy a child loves so much that they were buried with it and see a ploy by society to control them many toys sold in North America over the last several decades have been closely tied to media franchises, and there has been plenty of criticism of those media franchises for accepting strings-attached help from the US military to bolster its image, e.g. the Transformers movies [0]. [0] https://www.wired.com/2008/12/pentagon-holl-1/ https://www.wired.com/2008/12/pentagon-holl-1/