Toys"R"Us charged with gender discrimination of children
According to the youngsters, the Toys"R"Us Christmas catalogue featured “outdated gender roles because boys and girls were shown playing with different types of toys, whereby the boys were portrayed as active and the girls as passive”, according to a statement from Ro.
The group’s teacher explained to the local Smålandsposten newspaper that filing the complaint was the culmination of more than two years of “long-term work” by the students on gender roles.
Small girls in princess stuff…and here are boys dressed as super heroes. It’s obvious that you get affected by this,” he told the newspaper.
“When I see that only girls play with certain things then, as a guy, I don’t want it.”cite
Bravo. Don't you find it odd that it took European children to call a toy distributor on their bogus American practice of facilitating stereotypes?
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