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In a message dated 11/06/2001 9:51:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Have you noticed that the HORSES are all in the Barbie
> and doll isles? Also all the pretty stuff....sequins,
> magic wands, boas, all the fantasy stuff is in the
> "girl's" isles......all the UGLY monsters and drooling
> dinosaurs and neutered (well, they are) fighting
> "action" figures, tanks, and all in sizes that you
> have to sit down to play with. Very few real
> play-with-move-your-body-around-fun-things...so
> nothing that is really attractive to anybody. A child
> that appreciates beauty at all is forced to go to the
> "girls" toys isles. At least in Walmart...the only
> "toy" store within 50 miles of our home.
>
> Skate board, bicycles, kayaks, tents, hot-air
> balloons, gliders, kites, other really fun stuff come
> in ALL colors.
>
>

When Julian was little we used to buy lots of his clothes in the girl's
department...things like tee shirts and some pants. That was because the
girls' clothes came in lots of colors, but the boys' things only came in dull
colors, or had either sports or military themes.

Kathryn


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