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Date: 11 July 2012 16:48:03
I'm staying with friends at the moment who have small children. There three year old daughter has got new lego which has both pink and purple bricks. I commented about this and another friend, moaned about the world being obsessed with making little girls into "pink princesses". While I share this complaint, why is there so much obsession at the moment with pink and blue. being for girls and boys. The way I see it, having pink lego bricks, is saying you can be "girly" in a non traditional girl area. Maybe it helps us to remember that we don't have to conform to the stero-types, we can twist them on there head, in this case by being girly but not being girly. Maybe in life we need to remember to subvert the status quo and say no we don't have to conform to the boxes that others want us to be in, we can embrace stero-types when they are true of us, but go our own way at other times.