Instead of wasting money on this sexist crap, build a real dollhouse with your kids from scratch. The process involves the whole family and has interesting parts for any gender.
Roominate: A Building Toy for Girls
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#12Why can't we just give them meccano and Lego the same as the boy kids?
As JoeBoy said, little girls and boys will fiercely defend their perceived gender. I remember being a young girl and my parents expecting me to play with my brother's legos: not going to happen. Then an aunt sent some swedish blocks, which no-one else had, and it was acceptable for me to share and play with these with my brother. I wasn't self-aware at the time to know why (and still can't recall!). Edit: see childre…
The problem being, if we decide to give in to our girls' desire to defend their gender, we potentially set them up for a life of buying overpriced pink electric screwdrivers and shit like http://www.amazon.com/BIC-Cristal-1-0mm-Black-MSLP16-Blk/dp/...
Re: Roominate: A Building Toy for Girls
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
As JoeBoy said, little girls and boys will fiercely defend their perceived gender. I remember being a young girl and my parents expecting me to play with my brother's legos: not going to happen. Then an aunt sent some swedish blocks, which no-one else had, and it was acceptable for me to share and play with these with my brother. I wasn't self-aware at the time to know why (and still can't recall!). Edit: see childre…
The problem being, if we decide to give in to our girls' desire to defend their gender, we potentially set them up for a life of buying overpriced pink electric screwdrivers and shit like http://www.amazon.com/BIC-Cristal-1-0mm-Black-MSLP16-Blk/dp/...
Oh, don't give in! That's your role as parent. Do you let your kids eat sugar for breakfast? Fight them for what you know is best, they'll thank you for it. Sneak in some broccoli as it were.
Note: those BIC pens to me seem like a marketing joke: someone at BIC was clever enough to see a way to make money by taking advantage of the deep-set insecurities of grown women.
Re: Roominate: A Building Toy for Girls
#14That's a strange name. It reminds me of ruminant[1], but maybe it's because I'm a not a native English speaker.
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#15Roominate is to Erector Set, as GI Joe was to Barbie.
An agitated younger me: "Listen. They're not dolls! They're ACTION FIGURES."
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#16That's a strange name. It reminds me of ruminant[1], but maybe it's because I'm a not a native English speaker. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminant
My guess is that the name is a play on "ruminate", which originally meant "to chew the cud" as ruminant animals do. However, long ago it came to also mean "to think deeply about", as if a person might be "chewing" some information in an attempt to digest it. I'm assuming they mean the latter meaning.