Hello boys and girls,
Because we are now in the thick of the holiday season, advertisements for toys are EVERYWHERE! I am sure you have noticed! Maybe you've even written a list of some toys you want (I hope you've added to that list some ways to help others, too!).
I collected some images from toy catalogues because I am always interested in the way that little boys and little girls are portrayed. Have a look at the images below and see what you notice. There are some very different things going on in the different ads. What do you notice? Leave a comment with three things that you noticed.
Update: The wonderful students in Room 207 have visited this post and joined our conversation as well! Please take some time to read and respond to comments below!
They are ether electronic or VIOLENT
ReplyDeletesome are actuly pretty apealing to me like
the microscope is looks cool although I already
have a wish list
whoops the is betwen miicroscope and looks is suposed
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Have a look and see what you notice about toys targeted to boys and those targeted to girls. Do you notice anything interesting?
DeleteI found that with the older kids there was a lot more things like boys get these certain gthings and girls get these certain things. And with younger kids everything is equally the same gender.
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It dosn't say $.I think it's from a diffrent place.Maya V
DeleteI am surpised that the boys are playing with girl toys
Deleteand other way around!
Maya V
there are so many werd toys espouly the micrascope.
ReplyDeletewho would want a clening set not me.
ReplyDeleteLike 10/18 is dolls
ReplyDeletealot of is is for babys
most of the toys are from Toys R Us
I find it very different beacuse some girls are playing with boy cind of stuff and boys playing with some boy cind of stuff. And some toys have like a girls only sticker on it or a boys only sticker on a toy.
ReplyDeleteAAAAAHHHH!!! I SEE A MONSTER ON THE PINK 600X MICROSCOPE!!
ReplyDeleteSOO SCARY!!
I noticed the nerf picture was very controversial because some people thought that a girl in that picture was weird. I totally disagree, I see girls all the time with nerf guns.
ReplyDeletei was so saprizd that that there was a girl in the nurf gun add because normaly it's a boy.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought it was a girl too, but now that I look at it again It looks like a boy, I am not to sure?
DeleteThey are using a lot of adult things and turning them into kids things. Maya V
DeleteI have noticed that all of the boys toys are blue or a dark colour and the girls toys are more colourful.
DeleteMost of the toys are for younger kids than adults and teens.
It donsn't say $ so you can't tell how much it costs.
-Maya W.
toys are fun toys are cool toys are.............very very very very very very fun
ReplyDeleteSO do I so do I
ReplyDeletePartyMac
DeleteThe last two puictures are my favroutes because they potray girls playing with "boys" toys.
ReplyDeletePat,
DeleteReading this comment made me go back to the title of my post and put the "boys" and "girls" in quotation marks. You are totally correct to do so, as they're only called "boys'" toys and "girls'" toys, there is nothing about them that actually makes them only for one gender.
Up until the Barbie ad it is all VERY sexist they have completly separated the boys from the girls!:( Then in everything from the Barbies and down they have a boy and a girl,where they look equal. Also when the boys and girls are separated the price for the girls drops the boys items are able to do much more!
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The toys are mostly from Toysrus and Walmart. And some of the boys and girls are playing with baby toys and they are way older. I find it very different.
ReplyDeleteI loved your ccomment and its awesome
Delete-Liam
Iove the ads and the cute little boy and a little girls playing with the casil playfuly
ReplyDelete-Liam
Look at the third last pictuure VERY, VERY closely!!! :O I LOVE that ad!!!
ReplyDeleteI saw a girl with a nerf gun and to me that is very different.
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ReplyDeleteI noticed most girls toys are pink(I myself dont like pike that much).
ReplyDeleteWhy do people think that girls only like pink and no other colour
ReplyDeletei realized that there was baby toys,kids toys,playschool toys, and alot of diffrent types of toys also i saw girls were playing with boys kind of toys and boys playing with girls kind of toys
ReplyDelete-Erika
I noticed that the toys for the girls are more toys that
ReplyDeleteare like clening splis for exampol,
a oven,
a iyrn,
And the boys toy sare more like dragons
As a girl, how does that make you feel, Madi?
Deleteall the things for girls are pink
ReplyDeleteand most of the things for girls are cleaning,barbies or princesses
personaly i would shop in the boys section (like i used to)
p.s.
I HATE PINK BARBIES PRINCESSES AND CLEANING!
-I noticed that all the girls toys are all pink, and the boys toys are all dark colours!
ReplyDeleteI also noticed that all the girls stuff was on 1 side and the boys stuff were all on the other side, they never (well usually not) put boys and girl toy on the same page!
-One other thing I noticed was that a few adds had GIRLS and BOYS playing with the toy,like for example, Barbies they had one boy and one girl playing!
-One more thing I noticed is that they labeled the pink stuff and the girly stuff under girls, and the cars and blue stuff under boys, but technically that's not true, girls could have Blue cars and boys could have Pink flowers!
-Fiona
The video is very cool, I actually never thought about that!
ReplyDeleteThere all real tools to use
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ReplyDeleteI saw that the boys were playing with the girl toys and the girls were playing with the boy toys.
Sam
What do you mean?
DeleteThere really isn't such thing as a "girl" or "boy" toy.
Altough i would not buy a little boy a barbie dream house...
- Kelly :)
room 207
There all toys at the same time too . Karim
ReplyDeleteI also found that everything for girls it was a lot cheaper and less quality an dthe boys things wher more expensive and better quality.
ReplyDelete-Aniek
Tiius class
I saw some of the toys are played by girls and boys, the girls toys
ReplyDeleteare mostly pink and the boys toys are mostly red or blue.
Mikaela
i like the toys
ReplyDeleteEvery thing had a percent off. Karim
ReplyDeleteThe girl toys are cooking ,cleaning and the hard work .But the boy toys are building things and job related. thats horrible :(
ReplyDeleteKyra :)
So horrible!!!!! I noticed that all the boys advertisments they are working, shooting, playing war and pretty much doing everything the girls aren't!!!!!!The girls have cutesy,pink,cooking and sewing things! Our society is encouraging the opposite sexes to have nothing to relate with!
ReplyDeleteSarah Tomkins
i am fasinated because all the toys are helpful tools
ReplyDeletethere all real tools also
DeleteOne thing I noticed is there are alot of age groups involved in the toy catologs.
ReplyDeleteKieranFM
I like the Nerf guns. Jeramy
ReplyDeleteI noticed girls playing with boys toys and boys playing with girl toys.
ReplyDeleteNick
No such thing as a "girl" or "boy" toy!
Delete- kelly
All of the toys that you see girls playing with in the ads are all cooking,cleaning,pink. Even the baby teether was separated to rings and saws for girls and boys, should we really be telling the childrin in the world that girls must love pink, cooking and cleaing and boys tools, nerf guns and cars I think not. Girls are a lot smarter than just cleaning and cooking.
ReplyDeleteOlivia
I agree!
Delete- Kelly :)
You have a good point there!
Delete-Fiona
I have noticed that the toys are all either pink or blue, also there are numbers but they aren't prices there something else.
ReplyDeleteWhy would a kid want a cleaning set it just gets them ready for when there older and have to clean there own house! I wouldn't buy a cleaning set for a kid. There was a little boy dressed up in a spider man suit playing with a barbie dream house, fun right.
- Kelly :) room 207
ReplyDeleteIts in European language.
Sam
It cost 89$ for a small skate board. Jeramy
ReplyDeleteI nodicd that there are some intresting splots write beside
ReplyDeletethe nerfgun's and they have leters on them.
LOGAN
I like them all but can wee get them?
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I noticed is that alot of boys are playing with girls toys and girls playing with boys toys
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that thay have very many diferint tipes of toys like science,job like toys and some weapons. I have also noticed that most of the toys are on sale. And the last thing i've noticed is that in most of the photos there are kids in the photos that look happy.
ReplyDelete-Austin
I saw their was this green splat that said a word in it and i also saw something this yellow tag that said 100:- or 50:- and also a girl shooting a nerf gun that just scare's me!
ReplyDeleteKurtis
some of them arent in english
ReplyDeleteGus
Realy?
Delete-Austin
You lose the bullets for the Nerf gun to fast because I have and I would know. Jeramy
ReplyDeleteI've also noticed that there are toys with a diferint age or gender.
ReplyDelete-Austin
spara???
ReplyDeleteGus
ReplyDeleteThe easy bake video is right.
Sam
Ther are some prity cool toys ther if i was small i would be so happy. LOGAN
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I noticed is that almost every girl toy is pink!
ReplyDeleteKieranFM
on some the boys are on one side girls the other
ReplyDeleteThe easy bake video is right boys should be in the comercial
ReplyDeleteNick
I also noticed that some toys ( like the cleaning trolley ) they only had i type, "girl" type
ReplyDeleteYikes!!!! Talk about gender specific toys! I am glad that you are bringing this up Shauna. I am sure that all of the smart cookies in your class know that the color of a toy shouldn't determine who plays with it - boy or girl. It really needs to come from personal interest!
ReplyDeletePersonally, I loved Spiderman pushing the baby carriage!
Jen-Hunter's Mum
It makes me sad how some toys have a sticker that says
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and I think its so unfair that they do that!!!
It should't be allowed!!!
But I was so happy when I saw the boy and girl together!!!
OMG girls like Nerf too! I personally like ALL the boy stuff better then the girl stuff.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed every bit of it and will bookmark your website for the future!!
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