to find the "dream jobs" page in the ELC catalogue annoying?

[MrsFogi]

Why is it that the girls dressed as a nurse and some pony girl and the boys get all the other jobs? Surely it would not be too mindblowing for a little girl to be a vet, doctor or policewoman? Do the people who put these things together live in the 1950s. The other pages seem fairly segregated as well.

personal boycotting is of course one option, but if someone feel strongly that something is wrong and has a detrimental effect on society in whatever way, then clearly personal boycotting is pretty ineffective tool.
I think it is a little intolerant to find other people's views "hilarious" tbh

The pink bandwagon is aimed at consumers basically, people whose little girls will want something and they can charge them an extra 10% for selling them a pink version.

MF, it wasn't that it was too gender specific, it was that it was all VILE (this was a couple of years ago, when all the Next stuff for young boys was sk8r, vandal stuff with rips, or mad elderly golfer stuff, as I say).

I like Next clothes - the brightly-coloured stuff that looks like it's for little boys, not for older boys.

It is the work of seconds for me to fire off an email to them. I think fast, I type like a demon - and, as Harpsi says, I complain (and praise) things I loathe and like all the time. It's just about being an active member of society nutter and trying to bend All People to my will. And being amusing as I do it

It worked, btw. Next are now doing lovely clothes again for boys - lots of colourful stripey tops.

I have some lovely things from next for DS,, I especially love a blue red and grey stripey jumper he has with a dog picture on it, I think I'll cry when it no longer fits, I do however look at some of the clothes he ahs been bought by family and think "Why would I want that written across his chest?"

some of it isn't insidious sexual stereotyping though, some of it is sheer crass profiteering
e.g. selling only pink and blue easels, so you need to buy a new one if you have a second or third child of a different sex

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MF, it wasn't that the clothes I don't particularly want to buy exist at all.

It was that when I went to buy some neutralish tops for DS1, there was a "choice" of one set of three.

And it annoyed me a lot, because I had vouchers I wanted to spend on them - and I couldn't, because I didn't want a skull and crossbones or "Heavy Metal Biker" or "Here Comes Trouble" plastered across it.

So I complained. In a matter of seconds. In fact, it's taken me longer to justify myself by far

Havn't read all thread so don't know if anyone's asked, but where do the kids pick up this pink = girls blue = boys thing?
My dd has always had anything regardless of colour and has developed into the sparkliest pinkest thing ever.
She laughed at her dad not so long ago cos he was wearing a pink shirt and 'pink is for girls!

it is just so very prevalent in the culture, that children can't avoid it.
it is incredibly powerful. e.g. my friend's ds refusing to believe his mum is a doctor even though he has known from birth

earl lesarning centre started out as a completely different enterprise with very specific ideals they all went by the ways ide long ago

ideals don't get you customers particularly in the toy world..i know i have tried it

i ended up selling things far different from how i started off

Habbibu, that's a thought! You aren't a nurse, are you?

Harpsi, have you tried him on that old logic puzzle - the one about someone being rushed into hospital (helpfully I forget the middle bit) but the trick is that the doctor who treats him is his mother?

what do people mean by elderly golfer clothes? don't golfers just wear tank tops, jumpers and polo shirts and chinos? i'm not sure what's wrong with those exactly ...

YANBU it is unbearably tacky

YANBU.

My wider issue though is with the ridiculous wide coverage of pink everything. Is it actually possible to buy anything for a girl that isn't pink?

Are ELC aware of any other colours?