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Santa, I'm a girl and I like dolls.

2/12/2014

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This has got to be a joke. Green senator Larissa Waters has brought up the issue of giving gender specific toys to children. Hmm, is this woman serious? It isn't the toys that reinforce stereotypes in kids, it happens to be the people around the kids who tell little girls they have to be good and pretty and get married one day, and to little boys they have to be tough and are not allowed to cry.

A kid doesn't know any different, pink and blue are colours, dolls and trucks are fun toys. However if a parent calls a boy gay for playing with a doll or older kids refuse to let a little girl play football because she's a girl, that's when the idea of gender stereotypes are planted inside kids head and it has an impact on their personality development.

So let kids be kids, otherwise we might have to not only ban pink and blue and Disney but maybe Christmas too.
 
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