M'kay. So, I think it's a bit of no-brainer that kids toys are ridiculously gendered and reinforce problematic traditional definitions of boy-ness and girl-ness. But the folks over at Sociological Images have provided a visual demonstration of this, and it's pretty darned telling.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/04/04/gendered-language-in-tv-toy-commercials/
And in other, really angry-making news, how 'bout this little tidbit:
http://racked.com/archives/2011/03/24/abercrombie-is-pushing-pushup-bikinis-for-7year-old-girls.php
You just can't make this shit up.
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