Aufaniae, your post is hilarious. Po faced and equally as precious as the hard core pinkers.
I could have written your post word for word, and was brought up in a house where we had the biggest, pinkest, sparkliest bigger than me barbie/ sindy house and an array of said dolls to fill it.
I still don't shave my legs or trim my fanjo hair, or wear make up. And I largely wear clogs. I used to kill people for a living. (well, if you believe that's what the military does, anyway).
Barbie/ Sindy was supercool. She could death slide out of the third storey window to the base of the apple tree where we had rigged the escape route. 
Yes, commercialism ton and gendering of stuff exists to make money for manufacturers. I have read Cinderella Ate My Daughter, y'know.
I have two girls. We've never bought them pink blah, but plenty (like every other person on the planet, plenty) of people have. They have played with Barbie. There are even Bratz dolls, and probably worse, stuffed in cupboards.
They are 8 and 12 now. the only people who froth about pink stuff are the mothers of under 7s. By that point, the girls themselves are well past conforming to the toys r us stereotype. I haven't seen anything pink in two years now - they chose blue for their room last year, and although dd1 has discovered the joys of clothes shopping, it's more what colour hoodie to buy to go with the jeans.
Yes, it's a pita. Yes, it's everywhere. Yes, some people buy into it. But you don't have to waste your money on it, and as long as your children have a good variety of stuff, and you introduce the concept of free will and explain about makes choices in a vacuum, there is no need to be alarmed.
Yup, join the pink stinks campaign, yup, campaign against crap stereotyping on adverts, all that. But to dictate how other people waste their money? Not your job.