Tinkertoys! I was never very good with Tinkertoys, but that might be because the set we had was missing half the pieces (I'm the 4th child of 5, and rarely got anything new).
I think the Komen foundation has well and truly sunk themselves. Absent firing Handel and admitting openly that the decision was made for political reasons, and committing to never doing that sort of thing again--and re-funding the stem cell research they cut off--they've lost all their credibility.
I'd been hearing dodgy stuff about them recently anyway: they apparently sued some other organization for using the phrase "For the Cure". Which is just tacky for a non-profit supposedly invested in women's health. Plus the business where they sandbagged some legislation that would have paid for cancer treatment for low-income women, because they think private charities should pick that up.
The main complaint I've heard about the "girl" Lego sets are that the redesigned minifigs no longer have interchangeable heads. Otherwise, they have a "girl" pirate ship set and a "girl" laboratory set - it's not just housework and pets.
Our legos got pulled out a week ago after being in the back of CJ's closet since the move. I was suprised to see that we had some pink and purple legos (just blocks) mixed in with all the other colors. The three year old boy who was playing with them didn't care, he built with all the blocks. The only time we noted the color was when we were getting him to clean up. "Let's up all the red ones away. And now the purple ones...".
Otherwise, they have a "girl" pirate ship set and a "girl" laboratory set
Is that the new "Friends" sets, Jessica? Because girl pirates would be awesome.
I've seen that pink gun here in a gunstore in Utah. Hubby had to ask me to stop being loud and horrified at the clerk. The clerk was blinking at me, all confused that someone would object to a gun to support breast cancer research. A) I despise the idea of pastel-colored guns, they're not a wardrobe accessory, and they're generally smaller-sized to appeal to kids, and B) I'm sick of "It's Pink! Buy this or you don't care about women!"
Hmm, upon further inspection, the pirate ship set is Spongebob-themed.
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But it shows up on the "girl" page: [link]
About half the stuff on that page is from the new series, the rest is old-school.
This one is also on the Category:Girls page, which I heartily approve of:
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Sara would flip if she had a SpongeBob pirate ship Lego set. As if she needs any more toys, of course.
Otherwise, they have a "girl" pirate ship set and a "girl" laboratory set
What's the difference between a girl laboratory and a boy laboratory?
they're not a wardrobe accessory, and they're generally smaller-sized to appeal to kids
People buy guns because of their looks as well as their performance all the time. That's not new, or female. Also, the smaller size is targeted to children? My understanding is that it's targeted to the usually smaller women's hands. Where do get the kiddy demographic info from?
Buy this or you don't care about women!
I don't even see that subtext, and I worked at a krav centre where some of the pink stuff was explicitly breast cancer fight-related, because the co-owner suffered from and died of breast cancer. No blackmail at all.
However, liking pink probably distracts from all that. If you don't like pink, there's no good reason you should have to wear or use it.
