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Pink and blue kinder eggs? When the fuck did that happen?

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ChampagneTastes · 13/04/2017 22:17

Cos apparently you can now get Barbies in the pink ones and proper toys in the blue ones (come on, no-one honestly thinks that Barbie counts as proper toys, surely?). When did this happen? I coped with them no longer having serious cogs and wheels for H&S reasons but who the fuck thought that genderising them was the way forward?

Stupid bastards.
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Itaintme · 14/04/2017 07:44

Kids like them though. Meh. I can't get worked up about this.

alteredimages · 14/04/2017 07:46

In France even the normal "Kinder Surprise" eggs are in pink and blue versions. It is a bit crap. You can also get gender neutral ones with specific toys like Smurfs though.

Happy Meals also still do girl and boy toys. It's crap. I usually get the girl ones for both DCs though because DS is a big my little pony fan, and those are the toys available now.

Allthewaves · 14/04/2017 07:47

My boys adore the super hero ones - don't really like the normal toys

HolditFinger · 14/04/2017 07:54

DD likes the boys ones for the superheroes (so do we!) She's not fussed about the Barbies at all. Though she was chuffed to bits that one came with a skateboard. She's still playing with it now! (Just the skateboard. Barbie went under the sofa!)
Some girls like girly things, some boys like traditional boy stuff. Mine doesn't, but at least there's a choice.

bloodymaria · 14/04/2017 07:55

I honestly can't even begin to care about this, don't buy them if you don't like them. Getting all worked up and furious over a sweetie? Meh. Maybe if you were complaining about the minuscule amoaunt of chocolate you get for your money I'd get on board.

LooksBetterWithAFilter · 14/04/2017 07:56

Ds2 loves kinder eggs and buys either pink or blue. The barbies get added to his play Mobil box. The giant kinder eggs with the transformer or pony are only £5 in my local coop not sure where is selling them for a tenner. Ds2 used pocket money and has bought both since they came in the shops because he has an impressive my little pony collection as well.

EccentricPickle · 14/04/2017 08:10

I'm usually one to jump on the "what a load of sexist shit" bandwagon. It annoyed me that they brought out a pink vtech camera for girls and the blue one was for boys. Why? Why could they not have done a range of colours AND a pink one and blue one. Why blue for boys and pink for girls?

BUT, as a child I would have wanted the Barbie toy. It would have disappointed me to have got a car or whatever else they do so the colour is a good indicator of what is inside, I suppose.

My DD loves superheroes so we get her a blue one when we get them. Her vagina hasn't sealed up yet, I don't think.

Or you can still get the orange ones that just have the usual tat in them.

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ChampagneTastes · 14/04/2017 08:11

I already have my DS declaring loudly that "pink is a girl colour" no matter how much I try to explain that colour doesn't have a gender. It just irritates me that every time I think I'm winning the fight, some other bloody company undermines my efforts.

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PodgeBod · 14/04/2017 08:29

Why do Barbies not count as proper toys? She has been an extremely popular toy for decades.
As a young girl I would have been so annoyed to get a transformer over a Barbie.

ColourfulOrangex · 14/04/2017 08:29

I haven't found the Smurf ones yet, we have the Barbie and marvel ones or just the original packaging ones

Nessie71 · 14/04/2017 08:45

Just asked my 8 year old daughters if blue was just for boys and pink just for girls she has just replied "boys can like pink and girls can like blue it has nothing to do with gender if you like the colour it does not matter"

ColourfulOrangex · 14/04/2017 08:51

My son and his cousin (girl both 4 at the time) used to argue when there was adverts on tv aimed at boys or girls, she was always adamament anything pink or what would be seen as girly was not allowed for boys (this was her father's doing) my son used to say it doesn't matter as long as you like it, he had a buggy and a baby from 2-5 he doesn't play with it now but he uses to be a daddy when playing and look after his baby

Nessie71 · 14/04/2017 09:02

My daughter never ever played with dolls always farm animals and dinosaurs and even now she is into pokemon go....

Natsku · 14/04/2017 10:33

Has anyone seen the large kinder eggs, they are out at the moment and cost £10

Bloody hell, at last something is cheaper in Finland! Only cost 6 euros here Grin

The eggs don't say for boys or girls here, they have Barbie written on the pink ones and a picture of a Smurf on the blue ones (although not all the blue ones are actually Smurfs, some are the random toys)

OddBoots · 14/04/2017 10:41

I stopped buying them years ago when they started having solid one piece disappointments in them rather than little kit cars that pull back and go, tiny paint sets, glider things that you assemble - basically things you could ~do~ stuff with.

ColourfulOrangex · 14/04/2017 10:44

I've only seen the large kinder eggs at £5 or 3 for £10

CaoNiMartacus · 14/04/2017 10:51

We need less gender-specific stuff, not more.

If we strengthen the idea of certain things being for girls and certain things for boys, what happens if a boy prefers the "girl" stuff or a girl prefers the "boy" stuff? Referrals to the Tavistock gender clinic, harmful puberty-blocking hormones, identifying with one socially-constructed ideal instead of another. I don't think the two are unrelated.

Small stuff, you might think. Just toys. Not a big deal. But it is a big deal.

abcBears · 14/04/2017 11:01

I think it's a great idea, my daughter is happy to chose blue or pink. My son knows that pink is a girl colour, but will pick a pink egg if he is targeting a toy that's instead. They are rarely interesting for him, but so what. No all boys (or even girls) are into Frozen or Barbie.

Really not a big deal. Until my son has to learn early about periods and period pain, painful boobs growing and trainer bras, and my daughter has to wear a groin guard for sport, then telling them they are identical and must think the same is ridiculous.

LokisSister · 14/04/2017 11:22

When my dc were little dd would have chosen the barbie one and ds would have chosen the train/car one. Same with the pink or blue nerf gun and Lego. They're only a year apart in age so we had all manner of toys for them to share but dd was always playing with polly pockets and dolls whereas ds had a Thomas the tank obsession until he was 9

I never imposed gender stereotypes on them and they had free reign of the playroom but they both 'conformed' to what society thinks girls and boys should like. I couldn't give less of a crap, they were happy and quiet and I'd bet if Thomas was pink and polly pocket had a blue or red face they would still have picked the same toys to play with.

wistfully looks back at a time when dc asked for a 65p kinder egg instead of iTunes vouchers and £40 tshirts

Mordenapple · 14/04/2017 11:25

I overheard my DP having a conversation with our ten month old (Grin) dd about how we should disregard gender stereotypes when this advert came on this morning Smile

user1471545174 · 14/04/2017 11:55

It's a shit idea like all genderising of toys. Intended to diminish girls and keep them in their place.

tinyterrors · 14/04/2017 11:57

The kinder surprise eggs are pink or blue, pink have barbie and blue marvel super heroes at the moment.

I like it because my ds hated getting rings/butterflies/barbies/animals in his and dd2 hated getting dinosaurs/cars/trucks in hers.

Now dd1(whose favourite colour is blue) and ds choose the blue eggs because they like marvel and star wars which was the last blue toy, and dd2 gets pink because she loves pink and barbie/princesses etc.

I don't see it as gendered, more as letting you know what kind of toy you'll get so the kids can choose and not get upset/be disappointed with barbie/marvel etc when they'd prefer the other.

If the colour was changed to yellow with marvel toys and green with barbie toys no one would have a problem with it.

There are bigger things to get worked up about. It's a colour and I'm fed up of this attitude that my dd1 is fab because she loves blue and football but dd2 is wrong and shouldn't like pink and sparkles because it's a stereotype.

Parmaviolets13 · 14/04/2017 11:58

Yeah, done it for years. Although the advert on tv is 'blue and pink' not boys and girls.

Not sure why everyone gets funny though, if someone announced they were having a baby and it was a boy, majority of people will go straight for blue clothing

EduCated · 14/04/2017 12:05

It's not that Barbie is shit, it's the constant and repetitive blue and pink versions.

At one point the blue and pink and generic non-branded cars in blue and ponies in pink. They've also had hot wheels and MLP off the top of my head.

Believe it or not, there are actually more than two colours in the world Hmm

EduCated · 14/04/2017 12:06

Not sure why everyone gets funny though, if someone announced they were having a baby and it was a boy, majority of people will go straight for blue clothing

I would suggest there's something of an overlap between people who are irritated by the Kinder Eggs, and people irritated by the abundance of pink/blue clothes for babies...