Monday - December 07, 2009

Another idiot voice heard from re.Pink is bad.  Update on previous story but remains stupid.

Now you must know if a labour (left wing) mp wants it, it just isn’t good or right.
What an ass.  Bridget Prentice, justice minister?  Hmmm. Since there isn’t any of that here she can’t be doing her job.  I suspect she’s hunting votes and sucking up to the sisters on the militant left.  As before, I can’t see how the color pink causes little girls problems.  The problems are usually adults drilling things into fertile young minds. 

Ask yourself what we want girls and boys to learn from an early age.

“Is it that pink, passive and pretty is for girls

Didn’t work very well on my wife then.  She about the least “passive” individual I’ve known.  And come to think about it, that holds especially true for my dearest and most favorite late aunt, a staunch right wing republican all her life. 

Isn’t this just typical of the left.  They don’t agree so shut down the store that sells.  Don’t expect anything different from the comrades. Do we?

Labour MP: ban shops from selling ‘sexist’ pink toys to little girls

A war on pink toys and clothes for little girls which calls on parents to boycott shops selling sexist gifts this Christmas is being backed by a Labour minister.
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Published: 6:00AM GMT 07 Dec 2009

The Pinkstinks pressure group claims that young girls are being led up “pink alleys” by stores which target them with presents such as pink fairy wings and princess dresses.
It is organising a boycott of shops including the Early Learning Centre, which the group claims are leading the “pinkification” of girls’ toys which end up crushing their ambitions later in life.

Bridget Prentice, the Justice Minister, said that she was supporting the campaign because she was concerned that shops were creating Christmas gifts which were aimed particularly at either girls or boys.

She went on: “It’s about not funnelling girls into pretty, pretty jobs, but giving them aspirations and challenging them to fulfil their potential.
“We want to say to organisations like the Early Learning Centre that we rely on them to be progressive about encouraging girls to think of themselves as equal, and not to reinforce the old stereotypes.”

Emma Moore, a mother of two girls who founded the Pinkstinks group with her twin sister Abi, who has two boys, lives in Mrs Prentice’s Lewisham constituency.
She told the News Shopper local newspaper: “Ask yourself what we want girls and boys to learn from an early age.

“Is it that pink, passive and pretty is for girls and that blue, bold and challenging is for boys?
“Since the early 1990s manufacturers and retailers of children’s products have fabricated restrictive boundaries of what it is to be a girl in today’s society.
“As a result body image obsession begins younger and younger and beauty is valued over brains.”
Pinkstinks has 2,000 supporters on the social networking website Facebook.

A spokesman for the Early Learning Centre said: “Come down to Early Learning Centre and see for yourself the huge range of toys in an assortment of colours.
“Customers can choose a red kitchen, a blue kitchen, a blue cash register, a yellow dollhouse or a gorgeous farm.”

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HERE IS THE TELEGRAPH EDITORIAL REPLY TO THESE MISGUIDED PPL. 

‘Pinkstinks’ is a dour and humourless campaign

Telegraph View: Little girls like pink; it is part of their innocent charm, not an indication that they plan to waste their lives.

Published: 7:24AM GMT 07 Dec 2009

Bridget Prentice, the Justice Minister, is supporting a boycott of selected toy shops by the revoltingly named Pinkstinks campaign as a protest against the sale of “sexist” pink toys to little girls. As she explains: “It’s not about funnelling girls into pretty-pretty jobs, but giving them aspirations and challenging them to fulfil their potential.”

It really is difficult to think of a sillier or more patronising cause, worthy of the trendy “Modern Parents” who inflict misery on their children in the pages of Viz magazine. Little girls like pink; it is part of their innocent charm, not an indication that they plan to waste their lives in “pretty-pretty jobs”, whatever they might be. One has to ask: what toys was Mrs Prentice given as a child to turn her into such a caricature of a humourless feminist?

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