Apparently chocolate is a boy's word...

[Jenijena]

You can get fridge magnets which tell you so. They even have that special font and the words National Literacy on the packaging to make them official.

But it's ok, swimming is a boy's word too.

Needless to say, the girls get fluff, tiara and friends.

This is the twenty first frigging century and we're dividing the dictionary by gender?

[SchmancyPants]

God, that's dreadful and depressing.

[stargirl1701]

Oh dear god. Just awful.

[Startail]

Yikes, how many stereotypes can you cram in one product.

I suspect it's just a way of getting girls parents to spend twice as much since my mud pie making, football playing, toy car loving, ice cream scoffing, ballet dancer would want both to write about her favourite things.

(Also we will make no comment about make-up in KS1 words.)

[Schooldidi]

How horribly sad for children not to be allowed to use the whole language :( How are we going to be able to talk to the opposite sex in the future when we haven't learnt 'their' words?

Dd1 has informed me that she would have kicked off big time if I'd ever bought her the 'girls' words, because the boys got wizard, cobwebs, worms and dinosaurs. Those were her favourite things when she was of an age to be needing words on the fridge.

[caughtinagiggleloop]

Good to see that cooking is in its correct place - on the pink one.

[djelibeybi]

Could any French-speaker explain why le vagin is masculine?

[BertieBotts]

W.T.F??

Surely a generic "fun words" would suffice for both genders? I'm pretty sure I could make a fun sentence with frogs and wizards. :(

[Cheddars]

Incredible .

Does anyone know how to link this product to the Facebook Let Toys Be Toys page? This is one of the worst example I've seen of gender discrimination.

[sallysparrow157]

The girl's words has furry lipstick... I'd say that was more of a boy dog phrase (lowers the tone....)

[Trekkie]

I think we had a post about these magnets a couple of years back and everyone was rightly horrified. Glad to see they are still making them

[fluffywhitekittens]

Oh my word.

[JammySplodger]

What a load of arse!

[YouMakeMeWannaLaLa]

'forest' is a boy's word. I'm a (female) tree surgeon...guess I'll stick to bonsai trees

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

Could this finally be the reason I am looking for to give up chocolate?

Erm, nope.

[mabongwen]

I know in welsh we have female and male words and it affects the mutation that takes place I didn't think it was the same in English?

In welsh you just learn which words are male and which are female

[djelibeybi]

Close inspection reveals that "chocolate" is a multi-sexual word. I am sure we are all delighted.

The magnet sets are a rip-off: boys only have "snails" and "dogs" instead of the full "slugs and snails and puppy dogs tails".

On the positive side, they have "dragon" but not "butter" and "blue" without "waffle".

I do think that "swinging" should only be considered at a later age.

Girls get "pink"! Extraordinary - I have never connected the two before. I see they also get "wings" but not "Clare Rayner" or "towels". (Am I showing my age?)

[mowzer]

Awful. Just awful.
Djelibeybi - no idea why le vagin is masculine, but don't think we should read too much into it since la prostate is feminine... unless that is because it is a pain in the arse? (in which case, french revolution!)