to think that ELC have gone too far with their pink globe?

[Jacanne]

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It's just so annoying - would people really buy this. The "boys" version is your typical type of globe - it's worse than the pink vets costume.

that's hideous! Pink vets' costume? I do wonder who buys this stuff.

YANBU

What sort of idiot would buy it?

bloody awful a globe is educational so the seas/oceans are supposed to be blue.The whole girl's have pink theme's gone to far on this one.

Surely girls don't need to know about the world and all that boring stuff, anyway. They'll be too busy dieting and painting their nails.

sweet jesus, who the fuck designs this SHIT

oh christ. How depressing

Want one

YANBU. That is horrendous. I feel a MN petition coming on!

lol at sassybeast - I'm not going to let my girls see it, they'll want one!

ohhhhh thats the perfect pressie for my dd's birthday!

Clayre -you do know that if you buy one you'll be sentancing your girls to a lifetime of subjugation to men and sexual discrimination. They'll be wanting to put on lipstick next. Or be a housewife

i bought a globe for dd from elc for christmas

i had to ask in the shop as i couldn't find one

i was asked if it was for a boy or a girl ( I thought) and was shown the pink one

I bought the blue one - which is actually just a normal globe

I rather suspect dd would have preferred the pink one but tough it is horrible

Or they may just get confused about the colour of deserts - perhaps expecting them to be more "angel delight" in tone than they are? More dessert than desert in fact.

I like the caption underneath that says "how does this help my child?"

lol, maybe i should remove every pink item from the house, which is quite a lot as i am a huge fan of pink!

DD1's a huge fan of pink too.

I don't mind in principle but being of a non-pink persuasion myself I don't really get it.

I do try and draw the line somewhere though and the pink globe is so far over it that it aalmost meets itself coming back.

I am clearly joyless and a mean mother

I have 2 girls and they like pink and I am quite happy for them to like pink, wear pink if they want, have pink in their bedroom. I just think that producing pink versions of things that shouldn't be pink (like globes, sand, vet uniforms, batteries - I was actually asked if I wanted pink ones once - for example) is just taking it too far.

Hello
I work at ELC (though am currently on maternity leave) and have noticed we have brought out our new Gardening range for the spring/summer season and it is now in generic red and green colours. Im hoping this means we are dropping the pink/blue colourways on the other ranges.

that is truly apalling
and pink batteries?????

thank goodness my dds are too old for this nonsense

there must be 1000's of threads about that globe

I don't care what colour it is

Oh I expected something horrible when I saw the first few reactions.

Wait a minute, why are the oceans in pink??

exactly megapixals! It's very appealing to pink loving little girls, very pretty in a way, and that's the problem!

Pink oceans is just so wrong.

I saw this in our local ELC yesterday. My main problem with it is it just doesn't work very well as a colour scheme.

Because it all has to be sodding pink there's very little contrast between the pink oceans and the pink continents. So it's fine as a pretty pink light for your child's room, but rubbish to use as an actual globe.

You could probably get a pink plastic night light for less than £18.

Yeah, it does look more like an ornament for a pink-themed girl's room rather than a functional toy that they can learn something from.

Does it have proper countries on, or is it, like 'Fairyland', 'Princessland', capital 'Handbagville'?