WSTB13H3 Lecture : Lecture #4
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Pink/blue paradox: children"s clothing are colour coded according to their gender; pink for girls and blue for boys; only recently is it accepted for men to wear pink. South korean artist (jeongmee yoon) started a project called the pink and blue project ; asked children"s parents to put on display all of their children"s items. The pink ghetto perpetuated by all toy companies; boys" toys are wider ranged in colour; pink strongly markets gender and limits what is accepted for girls to play with. Fisher price toys my learning tools for boys; my pretty learning purse for girls. Films need to have more character development; females need to have different roles. 26,000 disney princess items; billions of dollars made from princess industry. Sexy types: little sister types, bow versions (female counterpart to male main character, the token pink one. Ryan article dora the explorer: creators were looking to make an alternative to barbie.