Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be annoyed that sellers market toys as 'girls' or 'boys' toys

8 replies

iwantaginsoakedXmas · 18/12/2014 09:48

On the local fb selling page there are a bunch of toys listed as being Boys Toys. There is a selection: A talking T om, a robot dog, Marble Mountain and some other items.

Could girls not play with those? I commented that they could be suitable for girls also.

I thought we were in 2014 and DC could play with any toys nowadays - or am I mistaken ?

OP posts:
Burke1 · 18/12/2014 09:53

They can play with any toys, you're not being banned from buying them. Think it's just saying that it's what would traditionally be seen as boys toys although girls are probably just as welcome to buy them. If they were refusing to sell them to parents who said they were for a daughter that would be a different story however.

EatShitDerek · 18/12/2014 09:54

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

HazleNutt · 18/12/2014 09:56

you want to check out Let Toys be Toys campaign.

But I bet you will get tons of people here saying it doesn't matter and it makes shopping easier. Because obviously, if you're looking for Legos (except for Friends) or dinosaurs, you should know to look under boys' toys.. Hmm

anothernumberone · 18/12/2014 10:02

I agree with you OP and the pinkification. I ignore them all though my dd2 loves blue everything had to be blue for her. My ds has 2 big sisters so he plays with tonnes of their old toys lives Sylvanian families and baby dolls. I think because of the culture going on around us it is good if we as parents try to minimise the impact it has within the house.

DoraGora · 18/12/2014 10:05

My daughter identifies boys toys and moves around them.

PortofinoVino · 18/12/2014 11:12

This has been done to death, OP - over and over and over again.

youareallbonkers · 18/12/2014 11:23

so don't shop with them. People can classify things they sell however they like. For a lot of people it is easier to look at suggested categories

jellybeans · 18/12/2014 12:27

Yanbu it really annoys me. TV adverts as well. How can people expect equality when this sexism still exists.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread