'Gender Apartheid' at toy shop shock

[Gromit]

http://www.telegraph....ccused-of-sexism.html

Thank goodness this shocking state of affairs has now be rectified.

[jno]

she'll have to finish building the kitchen first, Nox

[NOX]

Pregnant and barefoot of course jno;-)

[Ankou]

building has been delayed jno due to an ongoing dispute with the location of the nearest manhole.

[missprim]

Shouldn't this be in the Jokes section?

[ichkeria]

Whatever the reasons behind it, it's the right outcome.

[jno]

also some debate over the gender of screw threads

http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Screw_thread#Gender

[missprim]

///For example, a screw has male threads, while its matching hole has female threads. ///

Does this explain why women are always getting screwed jno?

[NOX]

Ichkeria- do you seriously, honestly think something so trivial matters to anyone but this rabid woman, who according to my ex and daughter certainly don't represent what they think- so this is not just me as a man talking.
My daughter actually said she finds things like that irritating as it trivialises women into being precieved as poor things that constantly feel they need to prove themselves against men, when in fact the majority of women in the UK are equal in every sense of the word to men and not in need of instruction on whether they should live up to a stereotype or not. I'm pretty glad she said that as if she'd been worried about soemthing like that I'd have felt I'd failed as parent in instilling a sense of self worth into her.

[ichkeria]

"Ichkeria- do you seriously,..." etc etc

Not sure I'm following you. The story says Hamley's have changed the layout of their store. Personally, I think that's a good thing. i care not about the lady in question.

[NOX]

Oh sorry so you thought Hamleys was a confusing place to shop- sorry totally misunderstood your previous post, because I thought it was a very straightforward layout- my mistake;-)

[ichkeria]

That's ok NOX. I haven't actually been in Hamleys for years, but my experience of other large toyshops is that I prefer stuff to be laid out by toy type rather than having "gender zones" for want of a better term. Even if, in practice, that means lots of traditionally "male" or "female" toys may still be grouped together.

[Mosaic]

'Parents know what their child is interested in, regardless of their gender'...Not like me to disagree with a statement from AOG, but I feel pressed to on this occasion.
My parents didn't allow me 'boy's toys' ie anything I was interested in. That was in a past generation - but now, post-women's liberation and so-called equality of opportunity, commercial pressure on kids knows very few bounds. Girls who do not conform to stereotypes even at very young ages are given negative labels and we should be looking to reduce pressure on kids, not fall in with it. So I think major retailers should not enforce notions of girls or boys toys.

[wolf63]

douglas9401 - I didn't know that about Pepsi Max. The same advertising person must have been behind Diet Coke/Coke Zero (the much more manly drink). :-)

[douglas9401]

I must be secure in myself, I like Pepsi Max and Diet Coke. :)

[jno]

that was the trouble with Diet Coke, it was seen as being a girly drink (all those ads showing people drinking it while leering at construction workers can't have helped). That's why they came up with Coke Zero, which was marketed more as "bloke Coke".

[grffindoor2011]

This story is why I hate feminists above anyone else on earth.

[anotheoldgit]

Mosaic

/// Not like me to disagree with a statement from AOG, but I feel pressed to on this occasion. ///

Then please allow me to equally disagree with your statement:

/// My parents didn't allow me 'boy's toys' ie anything I was interested in. That was in a past generation ///

That was your parents attitude, that is in no way typical of all past parents.

Surprisingly enough I was once a child in a 'past generation' and I am pleased to say my parents had only my interests at heart, but then in those far off days things were much clearer Boys were Boys and Girls were Girls.

These days the poor little mites don't know what they are, thanks to all the brainwashing they receive from some of their elders.

Just let their sexuality mature in the natural way, not how some activists would wish it to.