Society/Culture 'No Gender December'

[SpuriousPea]

On Tuesday, Greens spokeswoman for women, Larissa Waters, called on gift-giving adults to think about how toys are marketed to children over the festive season.

Greens Senator Larissa Waters.


While Senator Waters said the "starkly separate aisles of pink and blue" might seem harmless, but "setting such strong gender stereotypes at early ages can have long-term impacts, including [on] self-perception and career aspirations."


Senator Waters said that "outdated stereotypes" about girls and boys perpetuate gender inequality, "which feeds into very serious problems such as domestic violence and the gender pay gap".

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Talk about first world problems...

Anyway, it seems to be working well for Sweden.

 

[The Passenger]

I'm not really sure what rape has to be doing with this, but regardless it's still one of the stupidest things i've heard.

It's a bit of a mind boggling one this one.

I think a better policy is to just get the kids what they want?

 

[spinynorman]

Sweden has a far wider definition of rape than the rest of the world. Also where otherwise someone may be r*ped multiple times and have that be counted in the statistics once, in Sweden they count each instance. There's also been an effort made to ensure sexual violence cases are reported. Sweden's generally placed as the leading country in the world when it comes to gender equality.

Let's use statistics to support facts, not distort them.

 

[clogged]

Let's use statistics to support facts, not distort them.

Big ask for SpuriousPea.

 

[little graham]

We have ourselves a wolf in sheeps clothing.The wolf is turning on the sheep.

This is feminist ideology. i was hoping it had something to do with halting rampant consumerism and the targeting of children. But no, its all about stopping boys becoming men.

 

[The_Reaper]

What the **** has this got to do with rape?

 

[Admiral Byng]

What a load of PC crap. Larissa Waters can sack my cook.

 

[Pie eyed]

What a load of PC crap. Larissa Waters can sack my cook.

**** sacked.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_juqB-R1zC4c/S_ZqjAZR1DI/AAAAAAAADtE/HEtRKZ1f-Bk/s1600/****-fighting-east-timor.jpg

 

[JeffDunne]

Where did she mention rape?

 

[Pie eyed]

I think pointing out at this juncture that Larissa is a bit a of a horn bag would be gratuitous and misogynistic....but....
if someone has a point to get across it has to be an advantage not to make your audiences eyes bleed...like some others you could, but for PC reasons would not name Bron.
Just sayin'.

 

[fleabitten]

I actually don't mind what she says. Encourage girls to play with toy trucks and boys to play with toy kitchens if the kid is into that. There's no reason to always promote certain toys as for boys and others for girls. She had to go and spoil it by bringing up the gender pay gap, but I don't see what's wrong with her basic point (as far as i could tell what that is from the OP).

 

[SpuriousPea]

Thinking I'm actually trying to correlate non-gendered toy advertisement with rape.

Jesus christ, the density of this board sometimes...

 

[kfc1]

Waters makes a valid point, although it is lost in either terrible reporting or verbal diarrhea

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

Yeah, if a young boy wants to prance around in a pink tutu and play with dolls, or if a young girl wants to wear overalls and play with trucks - good on them. Not sure how any of this is linked to domestic violence though - perhaps Waters could have explained this when she made the statements.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

On Tuesday, Greens spokeswoman for women, Larissa Waters, called on gift-giving adults to think about how toys are marketed to children over the festive season.

Greens Senator Larissa Waters.


While Senator Waters said the "starkly separate aisles of pink and blue" might seem harmless, but "setting such strong gender stereotypes at early ages can have long-term impacts, including [on] self-perception and career aspirations."


Senator Waters said that "outdated stereotypes" about girls and boys perpetuate gender inequality, "which feeds into very serious problems such as domestic violence and the gender pay gap".

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Talk about first world problems...

Anyway, it seems to be working well for Sweden.

What a load of ****ing shit.

This is why I hate the Greens.

Poor Bob Brown having to watch his party become this manhating rabble.

 

[Taylor]

Why are colours being given gender but toys are too much?

 

[Andre]

Poor Bob Brown having to watch his party become this manhating rabble.

It's no different to under Brown. Brown just had a great media presence, where he could be saying the most idiotic thing and it'd sound reasonable (until you actually stopped to think about it).

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

It's no different to under Brown. Brown just had a great media presence, where he could be saying the most idiotic thing and it'd sound reasonable (until you actually stopped to think about it).

Unfortunately you couldn't say the same about thge other senator mentioned in the article (who says far more idiotic tosh than Bob could ever muster).

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Why are colours being given gender but toys are too much?

Until midway through last century, pink was considered a male colour

 

[kfc1]

Why are colours being given gender but toys are too much?

I don't understand this question?

 

[Taylor]

I don't understand this question?

She talks about aisles being pink and others blue, but her issue is with the toys in them not the colour. She is happy for colour to have gender but not toys. It felt to me like very targeted focus at the exclusion of all else.

I'm wearing blue underwear today, it's not gender specific.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

My daughter's gettin' cricket gear and a footy for christmas. Auskick and MiloCricket all the way, WoooHoooo!!!

 

[Danny Cullen]

My daughter's gettin' cricket gear and a footy for christmas. Auskick and MiloCricket all the way, WoooHoooo!!!

Its absurd.

 

[Andre]

Until midway through last century, pink was considered a male colour

Yep, changed over time for marketing purposes. But of course there was so much more gender equality back in the 19th century when boys wore pink and dresses as infants.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

My daughter's gettin' cricket gear and a footy for christmas. Auskick and MiloCricket all the way, WoooHoooo!!!

Amongst other things, my daughter is getting a ninja turtle...and the hulk....and shock horror....a barbie princess hairdressing set.

What a terrible father I am.