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So far my daughter has not expressed dissatisfaction with her body, which does not resemble the unrealistically thin Ever After High dolls I’ve seen her admiring at the store, but I know it’s coming. I hear her say that toys in the aisles that are dark grey and green and focus on construction and warfare are “boy toys.” I hear her say that her little boy friend at school has stopped playing with her because “he only wants to play with boys, and not girls.” I stand in front of aisles of pink and purple and wonder when it became a marketing truth that girls don’t like colors that aren’t pastels. I walk the toy aisles and the store and I hear Sally’s chatter.
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I think it may be easy to miss this if you’re not living it. When it comes to children’s consumer culture, we do not live in a world that is becoming more gender neutral.
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There is enough time for them to explore sexualization when they hit adolescence, we don’t need to go pressing that on three to five year olds (the target age demographic of Candy Land). Furthermore, young girls do not need to be sexualized. Yes, sex is an important part of life, but it is not the only part of life and a woman’s sexual appeal is not the most important thing about her. This isn’t about being prudish, it is about me not wanting girls to be reduced to sex symbols, robbed of their holistic personhood. I should point out, thought, that the author of that post calls Queen Frostine “Trampy” and appears to object to the sexualization of the Candy Land characters for different reasons than I do.
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Things have changed from the 1980s-things have changed a lot since the 1980s.įor a full comparison between the 1984 version I grew up playing and the 2013 version, see The New Candy Land: More Sickening than Sweet. If you go to a store to buy a Candy Land game for your daughter, granddaughter, or niece, that really is what you will find.