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Why are children's commercial entities trying to unsex boys?

Kangaroo Feathers

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
You make it sound like FEMALENESS is more important than MALENESS. God, according the the bible, created MAN and WOMAN. Not IT and WOMAN. In the first grade, 1970, boys in my school prided themselves in their maleness, their manhood parts. Certainly the peacock's plumage and the lion's mane draws a lot of maleness attention to those animals.
Nonsense. The reason there isn't a "male boy" doll line is because the toy companies don't think it would sell. There is an absolute glut of toys marketed towards boys, you're talking gibberish. No one says femaleness is more important than maleness. What people DO say is that femaleness is AS IMPORTANT as maleness, and if you don't agree with that, I really don't have much more time for you.
 

Jonathan Bailey

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Yes, they can put pictures of boys on these products but they won't dare print the word BOY on them.
Back in the early 1900's, this magazine wasn't afraid to put the word BOY on its covers:
american boy magazine - Google Search:

I want being male to carry a sense of pride.
 
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Jonathan Bailey

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What the heck are you talking about? Who mentioned "women priests", and what do they have to do with boy targeted toys? You're all over the place dude.
I was looking at your religion in your profile. Sorry, maybe I veered off course a bit but something flashed in my mind when I saw Catholic and since we are on the subject of gender here. My thread is not merely about boy toys but boy products and things in general.
 

Jonathan Bailey

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Checkmate.

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Learning how to spell COW and CAKE is something for both boys and girls equally. Bathing pigeons seems more a female thing. Shooting them with a shotgun is rather male. Washing the family big dog outdoors is rather male. I wash my Labrador retrievers with a garden hose and a nozzle.
 

Kangaroo Feathers

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Washing dogs is male, but bathing pigeons is female? What a pointlessly arbitrary, bitter person. :rolleyes: Well done for completely ignoring the point of my post.
 

HonestJoe

Well-Known Member
You make it sound like FEMALENESS is more important than MALENESS. God, according the the bible, created MAN and WOMAN. Not IT and WOMAN. In the first grade, 1970, boys in my school prided themselves in their maleness, their manhood parts. Certainly the peacock's plumage and the lion's mane draws a lot of maleness attention to those animals.
I’m not saying it’s more important, I’m explaining why generic femininity is a stronger feature of girls toys that generic masculinity is of boys toys. Boys toys are about being soldiers, builders, drivers and the like while girls toys are about clothes, make-up and babies, which carries a much stronger gendered image in most peoples’ minds (regardless of whether it should or not).

Your desire to impose a strong masculine image on the boys toys could actually increase the differences you’re noting since girls will be even more distanced from all of those traditionally male roles and even more closely bound to their traditionally female gendered ones.
 

Jonathan Bailey

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Washing dogs is male, but bathing pigeons is female? What a pointlessly arbitrary, bitter person. :rolleyes: Well done for completely ignoring the point of my post.
Well, I wasn't ignoring the fact that that poster was merely using the word BOY to represent a bunch of different children's products by a bunch of various toy makers. I didn't see one product that had the word BOY in its brand name. I do recall, back in 2000, seeing a play tool box at Toys R Us branded "Handy Boy", however. But it's extremely rare to see the term BOY branded on any youth product this day and age. I don't want male youth to get the impression that their penis is less valuable than a girl's vagina. I know there are ice cream sandwiches marketed in America that bear the brand Fat Boy but that has nothing specifically to do with being for male youth. Girls will get just as fat from eating too many of them.
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
Staff member
Premium Member
Well, I wasn't ignoring the fact that that poster was merely using the word BOY to represent a bunch of different children's products by a bunch of various toy makers. I didn't see one product that had the word BOY in its brand name. I do recall, back in 2000, seeing a play tool box at Toys R Us branded "Handy Boy", however. But it's extremely rare to see the term BOY branded on any youth product this day and age. I don't want male youth to get the impression that their penis is less valuable than a girl's vagina. I know there are ice cream sandwiches marketed in America that bear the brand Fat Boy but that has nothing specifically to do with being for male youth. Girls will get just as fat from eating too many of them.
Wtf are you even on about?
Who cares if a company does or doesn’t use the word boy in their toy lines specifically. You’d have to be living under a rock not to realise the difference between usually male orientated toys and usually female oriented toys. And what boy automatically thinks their manliness diminished if marketing companies don’t use the word boy in their lines?
Are you trolling, good sir? Because this is reading like a parody at this point.
 

Kangaroo Feathers

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Wtf are you even on about?
Who cares if a company does or doesn’t use the word boy in their toy lines specifically. You’d have to be living under a rock not to realise the difference between usually male orientated toys and usually female oriented toys. And what boy automatically thinks their manliness diminished if marketing companies don’t use the word boy in their lines?
Are you trolling, good sir? Because this is reading like a parody at this point.
I've already pointed out He-Man a couple of times, which has masculine pronouns right there in the name. Twice. Was a massive toy franchise, even spawned it's own TV show and live action film. But when you get up a good head of confirmation bias affirmed sanctimonious outrage, actual things like specifics and objectivity aren't nearly as much fun as blaming feminists for... whatever it is they're supposed to have done.

Imagine having such a fragile sense of masculinity that you feel attacked by the existence of a toy?
 

Jonathan Bailey

Well-Known Member
Wtf are you even on about?
Who cares if a company does or doesn’t use the word boy in their toy lines specifically. You’d have to be living under a rock not to realise the difference between usually male orientated toys and usually female oriented toys. And what boy automatically thinks their manliness diminished if marketing companies don’t use the word boy in their lines?
Are you trolling, good sir? Because this is reading like a parody at this point.

Does the word GIRL even need to be printed on the box of a female doll in a pretty pink dress?
Apparently in 1915, a certain magazine press, The Sprague Publishing Co. of Detroit, Michigan from November 1899 to August 1941, thought the word BOY was important in the title
of their periodical, The American Boy. Pictured on the covers were men and boys doing various male things like hunting, boating, fishing, playing baseball, playing football, playing horseback polo, beating a drum dressed like a soldier, playing fetch with big dogs, being dressed like business executives in suits and ties, riding horses in cowboy hats, and flying in spaceships.

Remember, the magazine was called The American Boy, not the American Kid or the American Child.

Its seems like the male sex was more connected with HIS maleness back in older times. These times are cutting off our manhood parts and making our voices higher apparently.
 
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Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
There is a big toy outfit, Mattel, I think, that has a line of dolls and other things called American Girl. They never thought to have any line of male toys and stuff named American Boy, oddly.

I wonder why.

Why is being born with manhood anatomy so hated, so "evil" these days?

Is women's lib trying to "get even" with us fellows?
Why so obsessed with the "man" thing? There are two main genders Men and Female. Both are equal
 

Liu

Well-Known Member
I feel rather weird when I see children's toys being marketed towards girls only or boys only. Seems discriminating to me towards those children who do not like the toys which are stereotypically attributed to their sex.

I mean, I'm a bit of a special case anyway due to being transgender, but also cisgender people to whom I brought this up in real life agreed.
 
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