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I'm going to reply properly now, because childrens toys and 'wrong labelling' is something I'm pretty interested in.
I get that some people take offense to toys being named after certain genders.
But seriously, in this day in age, especially in the UK and other parts of Europe, it is not ANYTHING like what you hear social justice bloggers complaining about.
Schools and nurseries arent even allowed to tell children what toys to play with. I don't understand how it is wrong to say 'girls toys' or 'boys toys' when it is clear what toys are being spoken about.
I understand that some boys are going to play with barbies and some girls will play with monster trucks, ETC... but the truth is, the majority of children still play with toys, related to their gender.
Of all the schools I've been to, of all the nurseries I've worked in, I've rarely ever seen kids playing with toys of the 'opposite' gender. Most kids just like playing with toy animals, bricks/lego, dressing up and playing outside.
It is seriously not as bad as people make on.
Never have I once year a parent say, 'Oh no Timothy, you cant play with that! It's a girls toy!!!!"
Once we had a little boy wear a dress-up dress outside to his parents and his dad laughed and said he looked beautiful.
SJBs seem to have this problem with making the world so much worse than it is... I just don't get it.
It does not make me small-minded to think that toys can still be called 'girls toys' or 'boys toys'. To me, being small-minded is not accepting that other people have opinions too.
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