MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
And happy Holidays to those that do no celebrate Christmas

Christmas is awesome!!

Happy yule. . . though I think it's over.

Also Happy Hanuka!!

HI GLASS!!!!! ^_^
Tana got alot of Jack Skellington Stuff for Christmas ^_^

Shiny. I got a bunch of steampunk books. :) It is gonna be so fun reading them.

coolioes. I got lots of neato usefull stuff to. Like a heated blanket, and a digital picture frame. Also got a pan set for the oven

And we made an epic crap ton of cookies.

I found this video to be nice and also kind of related to the thread. :D!

We are gonna make some cookies soon too. :)

We are? Lol.

I liked that Video Lizzy ^_^

Originally Posted by TanaChan

I liked that Video Lizzy ^_^

It was also on the local news as well. :D!

I found it rather adorable Lizzy ^_^

I'm so happy I got my books. :) I can't wait to read them!! :)

I hope Crow likes the video. :D!

I saw that video on facebook today. Preach it, sibling! ^____^ I'm glad how we are noticing much more gender awareness in children now. I think there has always been some awareness - children who are convinced they should be one gender and not another, or ones like that child in the video who is frustrated about the gender distinction in toys, but I think the grown ups (the media and parents as well) are becoming more aware of these things and trying less to simply suppress them. Which is a very positive change, even if it's taking a long time and there's still a lot of problematic language being used about these things ("this little child was born a normal boy, but he prefers to be a girl" etc.). But awareness is definitely a start, and mostly they have been handled in a positive or at least neutral way by the media. Or maybe I'm just not seeing the negative reactions from the media... ignorance is bliss! :P

That little girl in the video is ahead of so many people of many ages.

I do recall I have previously told all of you a personal story from my own childhood concerning how I wanted an action figure from a very popular film in the mid 90's - Jurassic Park - and they came packaged with a humanioid figure, a dinosaur, and a weapon... I automatically went for the toy that I thought had the coolest dinosaur and weapon and I really didn't honestly CARE about the humanoid figure but my mother SCREAMED at me, made me put at back, and said, "well if I am going to get you one, you better at least pick out a [BOY/GIRL one]", in other words one of the options that matched my biological sex, not the gender identitiy in my head which even at that particular moment was androgynous because it really didn't give a rat's ass.

I would have given that little girl a high five and dragged her over to chew out my mother. Even though at that point I probably would have ended up pissing off my mother to the point of not getting a toy...

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Oh, and P.S.: Lizzy's video made the front page of this thread. -applause-

For some reason all the boy action figures I wanted always seem to be sold out when I was a kid. :( It was true though. Like the Power Rangers, my great aunt tried to get the Pink Ranger and her friend (Either the green or the white ranger)... They were sold out. At least I had my brother's Ninja Turtles. :D! I remember my great aunt telling me when I was looking at the Power Rangers; the old ladies were saying to my great aunt, "get her a barbie doll or something girly." :S

My great aunt really didn't stereotype toys by gender. Although I learned some 50s things. Now I know better, that men can wear purple or pink (or any color they please).

The whole oink being a feminine color thing started with Hitler you know. . .

He marked homosexuals with little pink triangles, and that caused it.

Purple or violet is meant to be a colour of royalty. Purple == WINE, from the olden days. Also whether it is for is a pagan libation, a Jewish seder meal, or Christian Last Supper/Holy Communion, there is still a reminant of seeing wine being honoured in that way. However I can easily imagine roman and greek males alike lounging about in white and wine coloured robes.

Deep purples have always been the sign of status. They were worn by kings and high priests and such. The dyes were hard to come by and thus the robes were expensive.

Indigo is also the furthest-out colour of the rainbow, too, not the 'light wine' purple but the blue-purple that the indigo of our rainbow. If one ever has trouble rememebering the ends of the visible spectrum of light the bottom is 'infra-red' and the top is 'utra-violet'.

I liked the power rangers as a kid....I personally never had many issues as a kid liking the girl stuff, but I liked a bit of the boy stuff too, like hot wheels. But mom let me have those. I remember having a few cars and the tracks.

The one toy I really really really really wanted as a child was an easy bake oven. Never asked for one because they were pink and boys couldn't have pink things. :/

Now I can bake, and cook, and sew, and crochet, and other wonderful not really girly but seen as girly things. It's a great deal of fun. :)

Tana-chan- Be very grateful that your mother was liberal when it came to your toys and didn't let the gender sterotyping superscede your own desires. That is (one) sign of a good parent. To many parents the superficiality of what is in the shopping basket means more to them than their own child's feelings and happiness and enjoyment they would derive from the figures.

Glass- Didn't little Riley from the video on this page have something to say about what if boys wanted something that happened to be pink? I also think it is interesting that you have a very personal and real anecdote that falls in line with the gender-subversion poster I have on the front page:

By the way, I encourage everyone to spread this image virally, save it, and then spread it again later. It never gets old.

A few of my friends posted that to facebook recently.

Tana likes the picture! ^_^