\u201cI do have one suggestion for a future set, if one occurs. Don’t take the title \u2018Evolution of Man\u2019 so literally and include a couple of females. I have it on good authority that females did exist in prehistoric times. If nothing else, you could model the Australopithecus on Lucy. And if you make the Homo Erectus female, one could avoid all those bad, dirty jokes when introducing them to people who are not as familiar with our ancestors. Most of all, it’s important for our daughters to feel represented. There is a tendency to pretend only males existed in prehistory, with the single exception of Lucy. In film, books, and TV one is far more likely to see males in every recreation with, at most, a blurry female cooking way in the background. You have an opportunity with these figures to let little girls feel connected to our past.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Although she certainly didn’t promise anything, I hope that they would at least think about including females in some of their toy sets in the future. The evolution set remains unchanged, but I did see a female pilot in a different series.<\/p>\n
Please don’t take everyday sexism for granted. We need to write letters. We need to tell the people who make the toys that girls deserve every bit as much attention as boys. We need to tell them there are more colors in the rainbow than pink. We need to remind them \u201cPrincess\u201d is not the only female profession. We need to demand that female characters in established teams have to be represented in merchandising.<\/p>\n
It may seem like a small thing, but there is nothing inconsequential about it. Normalizing girls as being “icky” and unworthy of inclusion will follow the children who learn that lesson for the rest of their lives, male and female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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