Message #31682

[Psalm 51:17]

Yeah, all I can say is WOW...it's as if people today are doing all they can do bound-LESS their so-called "rights". Back in my youth days in the 80's/90's, even THIS was frowned upon(even though gay rights was being heavily promoted on my college campus).

Edit: Another alarming thing here is that this kid is only 6 years old. Isn't the age for these youths when they hit puberty and hormones kicking in is like 11 or 12? Again, this guy is ONLY 6 years old and is acting like this!

IMHO, the entertainment media and all the "goodies" they offer are playing a good part - I read this on Yahoo a couple of hours ago, now companies are doing all they can to market some of their toys to ALL genders(that for years and years were either marketed toward boys or girls ONLY). And they're being pretty subtle about it to boot.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/toys-get-a-sex-change-2013-02-27?link=MW_story_latest_news

Toys get a sex change
Lego and other toymakers boost profits by bending genders

There’s no gender equality on the toy shelf. Boys accounted for 90% of Lego sales — that is, until the Denmark-based company sold a version designed explicitly for girls.

Though some questioned the need for a version with pink blocks, “Lego Friends,” introduced in January 2012, proved to be a huge hit. Girls now account for 25% of purchases, and helped to increase overall sales for Lego by 25% last year, to $4.2 billion, according to results released last week. “Lego Friends” requires the same skills as “Lego Star Wars” and “Lego Kingdoms” for boys, but features less martial themes, and include tree houses, civic parks, dolls houses and pet salons.

It was the company’s first major success with girls, says Michael McNally, a Lego spokesman. Previous attempts had fewer building blocks and featured larger figures more like fashion dolls. “We were trying to be much more relevant to girls by being less Lego,” he says.

Lego is not the first toymaker to give a popular product a sex-change operation in an effort to boost sales. Nearly half a century ago, toymaker Hasbro found a way to sell dolls to boys: call them something else. “G.I. Joe” and Star Wars dolls were dubbed “action figures.”

Many manufacturers are also increasingly going beyond traditional gender roles, says Laurie Schacht, co-publisher of TheToyInsider.com. For example, Mattel launched “Mega Bloks Barbie Build ‘n Style” last December, the first time in its 50-year history that Barbie has dirtied her hands in construction. “Construction has traditionally been a category for boys,” Schacht says, “but it’s good for the development of all children.” Mega Bloks Barbie also sticks with Lego’s pink color scheme and neighborhood themes like pool parties and aspirational mansion-style homes.

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