Lex continues to love pink, and in the last couple of days I've watched him pull the beads off the Christmas tree and wear them like a necklace, and beg to wear Sharon's hairclip in his hair. None of this actually means a damned thing, but I'm still very aware that some of my relatives would discourage this, which I think is a shame
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Stupid gender assumption thingies.
Not sure if I've told you, I have a 14 year old male student that has a bright pink school bag (and has had one for the two years I've known him) and I have never seen anyone give him grief about it or say that he was "gay" or anything like that. There seems to be hope.
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I'd be tempted to cut out a silhouette of the character and silkscreen it on, with the right equipment, simply done.
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Most kids TV shows have strong role models and interesting characters of both genders, but you would never know it from the toy aisle. Wendy from Bob the Builder is a regular casualty of this kind of thinking.
I was really outraged to see how girls were rendered invisible and unimportant in the Harry Potter Lego - I would be all over that stuff for my daughter, but you're hard pressed to get one female character to every six male. Many many Lego versions of Harry, Ron, Dumbledore, Snape and Draco, and even generic boy characters, but does the Quidditch set have an Angelina Johnson? Does it hell!
Likewise, there are almost no appealing boy/male dolls among the Barbies and other super-girlie toys. I really don't think children are remotely as close minded as toy manufacturers think they are, ESPECIALLY in the under four age group.
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