Oh, I am SO with this kid. Hell, i'm a 23 year old girl who frequents the 'boy' toy isles to get my transformers... and most all the other transfans i know are female. we all love our plastic crack.
But it would be so very convenient if they kept the TF's next to the My Little Ponies.
And the Barbies next to the Gi-Joes(or whatever counts as Gi-J's these days... idk, ben tens and star wars tiys n crap i guess).
I never really thought much of it before, but now this kid mentions it, the segregation of boy and girl toys is pretty off to some degree. And girls dont want that much pink. Christ, even as a kid that much pink made me barf.

Gawd, I hate pink. In Kindergarten, we made plaster casts of our hands and put a piece of yarn through the top to hang on the wall. Boys got blue yarn, girls got pink. I hated pink so much at the time (still do) that even after asking nicely several times to get blue yarn instead of pink, protesting and even throwing a fit. I ended up with pink yard in the end, when I got home with the plaster cast, I cut the pink yarn off and used some of my grandma's ugly arse brown yarn to put back through the hole. When I was a kid, I was really into cabbage patch kids. Not girl dolls, but the boy cabbage patch kids. Loved skateboards-my barbies would always beat up my brother's GI joe dolls, I love my brothers transformers toys than he did (still a transformers and scifi geek) my easy bake oven was for melting crayons into different colors, never for baking stuff, hated dresses-still do-to the point at my high school graduation I was given a stern lecture by the princeable for showing up in a business casual pant suit instead of a dress, my prom "dress" was a woman's tux and hated how all the girls toys were pink-so much pink that I was turned off by many of the girl toys I was interested in as a kid but of all the friggin yucky pink. And I still turned out straight and happily married.

Kid's got a great point.

I used to have a babysitter who forbade me to play with "boy toys", saying that "She was going to make me act like a little girl".

My parents didn't want to make waves or risk offending her (It would be a pain in the butt to find another sitter if she didn't want us after that), and nobody stood up for my tomboyish self. Needless to say, I was miserable. Seriously, I used to play with my barbies and He-man figures together. Sometimes Barbie was a giant that He-man had to fight, other times they were on the same side. My only gripe was that Barbie's hands couldn't hold a sword too well. And I had a male friend who thought playing with my barbies was fun. We just didn't tell the other kids at school because we knew they would tease him.
Seriously, gender stereotypes and forced compliance with them just suck.

Yeah... the only time you'd have found me in the girly toy aisle is "passing through on my quest for the GOOD stuff, kthxbai."

I hate to play wet blanket here - well, sort of, anyway - but while I agree with the general disdain for "frilly pink girl toys", I really don't have a problem with stores grouping them together. If you're looking for something specific, it makes it easier to find. Besides, just because the toys are grouped doesn't mean you can't buy a superhero for a girl. It just means you have to look in a different aisle.

Perhaps I'm missing the point, but it's not like there's a law prohibiting shopping for a girl in the "boys" aisle.

This kid is awesome. I want to clone her.

But there is a problem with the toys: Girls can play with boy toys, it makes them "strong". But boys playing with girl toys will be seen as "weak". That's why girls will show off that they play video games or with action figures, but boys will never admit to playing with dolls.

My son had a dollhouse for a while, he used to invade it now and then and have his superheroes jump over it.

To the devils advocates: It not about AISLES so much as it is about MARKETING. Watch some children's toy commercials for a few minutes. It's disgusting. No child is allowed to deviate from the conformed norms or they will be branded by their peers because the television companies decide who is allowed to play with what.

It is unlikely that I will ever have children, but if I do, I hope they're like this kid :D

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Also, the My Little Ponies need to be in the men's aisle. Don't they realize who buys them?

When I was but a wee spawn, I adamantly refused to play with anything other than Legos and plastic animals. Then this year they came out with "girl Legos" and my little heart just about broke.

This girl seems like a really cool kid. Hope her parents appreciate her.

I believe you have mistaken ">1 million years of evolution" and ">five thousand years of culture." Other than that, fair point.