Last month, Janet Stemwedel wrote a piece for Scientific American examining some kits marketed toward girls and the impressions they give them. She was looking to see if there was anything she'd want for her birthday, and had mentioned before that she might want a chemistry set. I saw one that looked pretty good — lots of different experiments to try — and she liked it She doesn't need perfume, and I don't know that my wife and I would let her go to school wearing perfume.
As a guy, I've always been turned off by the huge "pink" aisle in toy stores — it's like hanging a big "keep out" sign for boys, and telling girls "Hey, ignore everything else in the store except this aisle. But it's so hard to fight the marketing. A collaboration between Mattel and Nabisco produced two dolls, one white and one black. Previous black Barbies failed commercially because people complained that except for her skin tone, the doll had the physical characteristics of a blond Barbie.
The Oreo Barbie was an even bigger fail, because in the African American community, Oreo is a disparaging term for a black person who identifies with white culture — black on the outside and white on the inside. The doll, which featured a removable abdomen with a baby inside, angered parents who felt it promoted teenage pregnancy and presented adult situations to young minds.
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