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Starting on page 33 of Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein she starts the chapter by explaining what she is seeing inside of a toy fair (2011). Inside the toy fair she explains how there is literally thousands of toys and about a quarter of them are pink. With all the toys there were usually two of each and one would be considered a boy toy and the next would clearly be a girl's toy because it was pink. The girl's toys were all pink, feathery, sparkly, glitter, and shiny which was opposite to what was considered to be a boy's toy. When walking through the fair she asked a sales rep if the pink was really needed for the toys. Their answer was, "Only if you want to make money, and I guess girls are born loving pink" (Orenstein, 2011). …show more content…

People today are even going all out and having gender revealing parties. Which in my opinion find funny that they are not using the term correctly when it should be a sex revealing party. Having a gender revealing party then consist of either having pink for girl and blue for boy and the big surprise of it being a boy or girl. When the sex is then revealed people go crazy in buying either boy or girl clothes. With girl clothes it has to be pink and frilly so people can know that their baby is a girl. If it was just a blue shirt it would not sell for the girls because as the sales rep said before, "girls are born loving pink." To an extent I believe to be true. Starting at three months old their parents are having parties for their growing baby and assuming that they would like a specific color based on their sex. Parents may then even paint their babies room a certain color, pink or blue, so some of the first colors they are seen with or come into contact with is what has already been determined by the parents. In the chapter Orenstein even explains to us how children weren’t even color-coded at all until the early twentieth century (2011). So, as marketers had their way with toys and clothing they have manipulated society into believing that all toys and clothing for girls should then in fact be

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