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What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products?
by ps4fanboy 12y ago
What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products?
- derwildemomo 12y agogendered products.
- Xylakant 12y agoThe kids desire for gendered products or the parents desire for gendered products?
- the_mitsuhiko 12y ago> What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products? Apparently the desire. Toddlers pick gendered products on their own (for some forms of them). There was some studies about this behavior.
- ptaipale 12y agoWell, if the toddlers can pick, the gendered products were there first. But it is true that kids even make gendered toys out of practically nothing. For instance, a local kindergarten here: three-year-old boys were forbidden to have toy guns. So the kids took some flat crispbread at the midday meal and chewed edges off to make it gun-shaped, and then started playing cops and robbers. Bang bang.
- DanBC 12y agoA child-made toy gun is not a gendered toy. A gendered toy would be a toy gun packaged in a blue box with only images of boys on the packaging.
- corin_ 12y agoWhat makes blue more boy-specific than guns are, objectively? For whatever reasons, whether through child instincts or society, both are generally preferred by boys over girls.
- DanBC 12y agoThe pictures of only boys on the blue boxes and the pictures of only girls on the pink boxes is something that needs to be considered. I don't care if more boys buy guns and more girls buy toy horses. I do care if those toys are packaged in rigidly gendered packaging and stocked in gendered sections of the toy store.
- facepalm 12y agoI recently saw Nerf guns for girls in the store. While my children are not yet of Nerf gun age, I think the Nerf gun for girls might significantly increase the odds that one day I'll be able to have Nerf battles with her. So yay for that. I would probably first try with a "normal" Nerf gun, but if that doesn't stick, why not try the girl variant.
- ashark 12y agoNerf guns, or Nerf bows? I've seen a lot of girl-gendered bows lately, thanks to The Hunger Games, I guess.
- warkid 12y agoI wonder how did they pick that "cops and robbers" game in the first place...
- oneeyedpigeon 12y agoThe former is a generalisation, a trend that every right-minded thinker accepts. Deriving the latter from that, unfortunately, leads to a restriction. Witness the beauty of the free market which caters to the mass-appeal middle of the road, ignoring the beautiful anomalies at the edges.
- facepalm 12y agoAnd yet now there are more Lego kits than 40 years ago. Maybe there is something among them for the anomal clients as well? Do you reckon socialism does a better job with providing individualistic toys? Or what alternative to free markets would you propose?
- blfr 12y agoThere are plenty of niche products on the market, from microbrews to eco-friendly dog accessories, whole specialty stores. Even more so now that you can order online. And you can have things custom made. For items like suits or furniture it's not that much more expensive than quality pre-made lines.
- kalleboo 12y agoA gendered society
- DanBC 12y agoWe know that a lot of social psychology research is weak or wrong, and that a few mainstream researchers hold anti-science viewpoints. http://wjh.harvard.edu/~jmitchel/writing/failed_science.htm http://wjh.harvard.edu/~jmitchel/writing/failed_science.htm We know that toy manufacturers spend a lot of money on research. So, it's possible that they have a bunch of gently flawed research, and the flaws are magnified through poor reporting, poor understanding, and then implementation into product. And now we're here, with toyshops segregrated into pink aisles and blue aisles there's no way back.