The pages on toys have upset me, 'girls toys' all have a pink theme and are all about playing house, 'boys toys' are a range of primary colours and themed around transport and construction. Have I actually woken up in the 1950s? Also have grandma's kitchen apron (but grandad doesn't cook obv.) and I love my granny, aunty or nan tea towels (cos washing up only done by female relatives)
Seriously is this a massive feminist backlash? Girls play at house while boys have cars and space ships and fire engines? Surely boys also play house and girls also like cars??
Or am I just reading too much into a stupid catalogue? I was
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to be annoyed at the Blooming Marvellous catalogue, or should I just get a life and worry less about such things.
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Wonderstuff · 11/09/2009 15:50
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