to be fucked off that stroes still feel the need to define toys by gender?

[GretaGip]

I've been wandering around all day looking for inspiration.

And it seems that within toy sales it's imperatiove to be prosciptive.

Surely one of the major retailers could realise that cupcakes and butterflies for grils and transport and dinosaurs for boys is just ouutdated and break free from the molud and then just sit back and wait for hoards of satisfued MNers to boost their sales.

AIBsimplistic?

Sigh.

Jeez Louise. Someone's had a nerve touched.

I'm not English, by the way. And I don't have kids. So it'd be a little weird for me to expect anyone to do the job of raising them.

It is possible to have a discussion about sociological issues without pitching a shit fit, yanno. Or getting personal.

Nope, I'm not English. Quite unprincessy too by all reports.

this made me laugh

Well I WAS sorry and embarrassed! I have changed my mind though now.

Ah, now MNHQ, I was deleted? I said 'your posts make you sound xyz', I thought that was OK?

Nevermind.

This is such a depressing thread. Women really are their own worst enemies.It's supposed to be a discussion about how we can encourage our daughters and sons to escape gender stereotypes, and as usual has descended into a name calling abusive cat fight. Horrible.

Well she was talking about ME - I was happy to let the post stand.

Sue - I think you were probably deleted because you repeated what she said in her deleted post, not because of the conclusions you drew?

SueP didn;t repeat.

These deletions are rubbish.

Considering MrRected thought this was a non issue, she seems mighty upset about it.

I didn't repeat. I said 'your posts make you sound xyz'

I may have included the word delusional elsewhere, in fairness.

caroviolet, the namecalling has been on one side as far as I can see.

Oh, was that Mrs DeVere. Someone repeated the comment in the context of criticising it.

"And as usual has descended into a name calling abusive cat fight"

Where, exactly, has this happened?

Jeez - humorous misspellings normally lead to hilarity and quiches, ime, not recrimination and deletions.

as usual has descended into a name calling abusive cat fight

Untrue. No catfight occured.

Well, Porto, in fairness the post that triggered it all still stands.

And agree, no catfight. Just one massive overreaction.

Plus getting all Pi about 'women being their own worst enemy' and then describing disagreements as 'catfights' is more than a little btw.

Poor old rectums, one of the unsung heroes of the bodily parts genre.

I DID apologise as soon as I realised.

nobody should be defined by their gender regardless of their age (really some of the replies shocked me, you'd think we were living in the middle ages!)