Saturday, April 30, 2011

slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails


I was in somewhere in Dundrum the other week, M&S I think, and I saw this beautiful kids' bag with little cassette tapes all over it. So nice! But would kids today even get it?

I dunno why it's for boys. Because there's no Hello Kitty on it? Sigh. I'm so tired of this arbitrary gender division. At a closer look, younger girls get flowers (and Hello Kitty) and boys get dinosaurs. Older girls get butterflies (or a pink handbag), and boys get music. MEH.

I can't seem to get the photo up - my computer is saving files and pics to random places at the moment, making me search  endlessly for them. Anyone know what to do about that?

6 comments:

Mwa said...

I buy stuff for Marie in the boys section. She doesn't mind, and a lot of it is way more comfortable/child-appropriate/easy to play in/warm/fun/... I hate the whole division too.

Ms. Moon said...

Yes. Buy a Mac. That's the answer to your question but I know that's out of the question. So, sorry.
Now- as to the gender thing- whatever. Buy what you want and call it a boy's or a girl's. Who cares? Butterflies will not make a girl girlier and dinosaurs will not make a boy boyier. Or vice versa.
I promise you.

Jo said...

I know that, of course, but I have a girl who doesn't like butterflies but doesn't want all boy things either, necessarily. And more and more they seem to be refusing to make anything in between. It's infuriating.

For example - we went to get sandals for her - one nice red sporty pair, not in her size, the rest all pink and pastel, and thankfully, one pair of leopard print, with sequins :) Strangely, that's where her tastes seem to lie at the moment.

itchybollix said...

they're back. i bought one a couple of weeks ago

http://raiknight.bandcamp.com/album/self-portrait

Jo said...

Really??

morgor said...

I assume you're downloading pictures from the internet?
Most browsers let you choose where to download things to be default, or you can choose to select your save location each time.
If it's from a camera then it depends on whether you're cutting and pasting from the file system, in which case it's all you, or you're using some sort of software in which case it would probably be the same as the browser situation mentioned previously....