Project Pink 2: The Tinkering

[zrath]

So, back on April 1st, I posted about the bewildering array of pinkified boardgames one could find at WeBeToys'N'Sheeeet.

GUESS WHAT?!?!!?

"Pink, purple and green pieces inspire creative imaginations!"

I guess OTHER COLORS are confusing to girls!!
And yes, this is another TRU exclusive, just like the other pink crap.
I'm gonna go play with my non-pink Legos now...



EDIT: Just so we're clear, I don't actually have much of a problem with pink stuff.
I'm doing this purely for fun and mock outrage, and nothing more.
Lego has a pink theme called Belville and I don't rail against it.
Purple and green are fine colors and the Drazi think they're good enough to base a government on. :D
Heck, my Rubik's Snake (recently renamed Rubik's Twist) is purple and green, and I love it!
That said, I do find a couple of pink things objectionable, like for example the pinkified Game Of Life.
Now, I seem to remember the Game Of Life being a family game, meaning for the whole family.
Is there something wrong with it now that means making a special version of Life just for girls?
That just seems weird to me.
But hey, it's not important.
More pressing matters await our attention.

Comments

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

Ha! Well, I've always said, "pink for boys and blue for girls" myself (as I sit at my distinxctively non-pink computer, wearing non-pink attire, eating non-pink macaroni).

No black Tinkertoys for goths? Mm...

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Goths don't get toys, because Emo's steal all of theirs.

... Emo's don't get toys because they're suppose to die...

... so really, they don't make toys for you because Emo's die. That's really sad, when you think about it.

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

Ah, they make toys for me. ^_^ I'm Chaotic. Or quixotic. Haven't decided, yet. Don't worry, when I do, I'll be the first to know.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I want to go over to whoever started this mess during the Bush Administration, and beat them up and down the street with a Pink Police Baton until they break mentally and stop this stupid foolishness.

My gawd, when did 2000 become the 50's mentally?

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

The answer to your question is Sept. 11, 2001. There'd been a whole lot of cultural anxiety building over demographic changes in the US leading up to that, but, in my mind anyway, the terrorist strike turned that anxiety in a full fledged panic. The culture of the 1950s was constructed and constructed with a plan to some extent. The creation of a mythic normalcy was a reaction to the large numbers of war scarred men returning home from the European and Pacifics wars and ensuing occupation. Add to that the massive demographic shakeup that had taken place between 1930 and the 1950s and the country had really lost its sense of what was normal; what the baselines were both physically and culturally.

The to 2000s have been less extreme, but the loss of reference points for many people is still significant. There's a security anxiety owing to unpredictable nature of terrorism. Then there's a cultural fear that we're seeing play out with the Obama administration. In the past ten years, in many places, the numbers of minorities have exceeded the number of whites. There's been an almost explosive grown in religious non-believers which has really unhinged a good many Christian leaders. Needless to say, the old majority is running scared from changes that have already happened. Bad enough that their own counties seem more brown, but there's a brown face in the white house now and that feels really unfamiliar even to people who aren't racist. I find it refreshing, but I was born in Inglewood. So, maybe a grandparent in their sixties or seventies will find the pink tinkertoys reassuring enough that they'll buy them for their granddaughter.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

While I dislike the color segregation, I don't have too many problems with the marketing ploy. If the color scheme gets parents to buy building and tinkering toys for their girls as opposed to infant nurturing toys, nothing but good will come of it. Likewise if the color scheme appeals to girls and makes them more apt to play with them. Though, to the tell the truth, I seem to remember girls and boys digging around in the bucket of legos at my mom's headstart pretty much equally. That gave me a warm fuzzy, I donated all my old legos the center back in college and the kids there really loved them.