Ok....why is that commercial so sexist? No one is forcing the girls to buy it or to like it. What if a little girl LIKES that stuff? What if she WANTS to be frilly and pretend to do the laundry, because that's what she's interested in? And what if everything is gender-neutral, and she can't have fun, because no one is selling the pink frilly home-stuff she wants?
I hated dolls as a girl. HATED them. I played with MLP's and stuffed animals and art stuff. What if no one made My Little Pony, or stuffed animals or art stuff and everyone just made dolls? I woulda been bummed.
I knew girls who LOVED frilly home crap as kids. What if everyone just made the red, blue and green gender neutral playhouses, and didn't make those pink frilly playsets? Those girls I knew would have been mighty disappointed.
Freedom means "Having a Choice". "Having a Choice" means that toys come in a VARIETY of interest....everything from gender-neutral toys (for kids like I used to be), to those frilly pink home-making toys (maybe there are girls out there who LIKE that), to things like toy guns and robots and GI JOE, and everything in between.
Trust me, girls are NOT going to be brainwashed into thinking they have to be a home-maker, because those toys aren't the only ones being made and there are tons of options out there with their own commercials being aired on TV.
When I was a girl, there were TONS Of Barbie commercials, doll commercials and kitchen playsets, and I sure wasn't brainwashed...because it didn't interest me, and there were a ton of OTHER commercials too that DID interest me.... Tonka trucks, MLP, Tinker-Toys, etc.
I hope we never become a nation where we have to censor our toys to always be 'gender-neutral'. That eliminates Choice and Freedom.
BTW, ironically, while the perfume commercial inspired you, it turned me off. What, I have to work my ass off as the Family Breadwinner at a 9-5 job, PLUS come home and cook for my man, PLUS sex him up too? I already did that for 10 years. It gets old real fast when you're the one running your ass off working multiple jobs, cooking, cleaning, etc. while the guy is earning less than you, and gets off work and sits on his butt... and THEN wants you to sex him up too. ARGH. >:(
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What if a little girl LIKES that stuff? What if she WANTS to be frilly and pretend to do the laundry, because that's what she's interested in? And what if everything is gender-neutral, and she can't have fun, because no one is selling the pink frilly home-stuff she wants?
I hated dolls as a girl. HATED them. I played with MLP's and stuffed animals and art stuff. What if no one made My Little Pony, or stuffed animals or art stuff and everyone just made dolls? I woulda been bummed.
I knew girls who LOVED frilly home crap as kids. What if everyone just made the red, blue and green gender neutral playhouses, and didn't make those pink frilly playsets? Those girls I knew would have been mighty disappointed.
Freedom means "Having a Choice".
"Having a Choice" means that toys come in a VARIETY of interest....everything from gender-neutral toys (for kids like I used to be), to those frilly pink home-making toys (maybe there are girls out there who LIKE that), to things like toy guns and robots and GI JOE, and everything in between.
Trust me, girls are NOT going to be brainwashed into thinking they have to be a home-maker, because those toys aren't the only ones being made and there are tons of options out there with their own commercials being aired on TV.
When I was a girl, there were TONS Of Barbie commercials, doll commercials and kitchen playsets, and I sure wasn't brainwashed...because it didn't interest me, and there were a ton of OTHER commercials too that DID interest me.... Tonka trucks, MLP, Tinker-Toys, etc.
I hope we never become a nation where we have to censor our toys to always be 'gender-neutral'. That eliminates Choice and Freedom.
BTW, ironically, while the perfume commercial inspired you, it turned me off. What, I have to work my ass off as the Family Breadwinner at a 9-5 job, PLUS come home and cook for my man, PLUS sex him up too? I already did that for 10 years. It gets old real fast when you're the one running your ass off working multiple jobs, cooking, cleaning, etc. while the guy is earning less than you, and gets off work and sits on his butt... and THEN wants you to sex him up too. ARGH. >:(