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.

What's the difference between a girl laboratory and a boy laboratory.

The girl lab comes with a girl minifig.

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There's a Lego replica of Fallingwater! I WANT THAT!

Dag, when is somebody going to buy me the Lego Guggenheim already. How many birthday hints does a guy have to drop?

There's a Lego replica of Fallingwater! I WANT THAT!

You can see it at the Building Museum in DC - it's pretty impressive.

We have to take the kids to D.C. Maybe this spring we can swing it. My "Aunt" Kay (mom's college friend) lives in Fairfax, and she's never even met Sara. (And she's been begging us to come down for years -- she can't because her husband has ALS now.)

When I was a kid I wanted an Erector set. Fat chance. I did get the chemistry set. Also Barbie and her Dream House. I'm multifaceted.

I had also heard about the SGK fighting for exclusive rights to "For The Cure". And, personally, I'm getting fed up with the constant ads for the event in October. I'm not especially fond of pink anything, so the marketing of pink this and that doesn't really ping me.

The girl lab comes with a girl minifig.

And the girl lab is purple. The tools are purple the overall color scheme is pastels.

I will note that although the pirate ship comes up on the "girls" page, it is not color-coded for girls the way the bakery, the salon, the dog show, the house, the vet, and the cafe are. The general sense of everything on that page is pastels & purple.

Which is kind of an awful recursive loop: We train kids that girls are into pink/purple and boys are into blue/green, and then get surprised when the kids gravitate towards those colors. If the only toys or clothes ever offered to kids are color-coded by gender, they will of course imprint on that pattern.

It makes me crazy when I go to Target looking for presents for my niece: everything is pink/purple. She should have the option of dressing like a tomboy, you know? But it's hella hard.

And I'm not even a parent: I can't imagine what it must be like to be raising a daughter in this commercial environment.