Lady Gyr

The government is planning a massive sell off of our national forests.This could mean our ancient woodlands are chopped down and ruined. Wildlife, walkers and cyclists would have to make way for Centre Parcs style holiday villages, golf courses and commercial logging.

We can’t let that happen. We need to stop these plans. National treasures like the The Forest of Dean, Sherwood Forest and The New Forest could be sold off. Once they are gone, they will be lost forever.

A huge petition will force the government to rethink its plans. If we can prove how strongly the public are against this, they will have to back down. Please sign the petition now.

It appears someone else has noticed the very definite gender bias to the packaging and design of toys! Confining children to narrow gender roles from such an early age insults both boys AND girls!

thefeministhub:

This is a good read. Not only does the author talk about how toys are marketed along gender roles, she also goes through a number of catalogs and tallies up what boys are pictured with, what girls are pictured with, predominant colors for each, and more, putting it all in charts that really illustrate how boy-girl specific the toy industry is.

An excerpt:

As I looked through these catalogs, I saw zero boys nuturing dolls or pets, or playing with toys that encouraged fashion sense or manscaping. I saw zero girls constructing or destructing anything, moving vehicles, or holding weapons or sports equipment. Our kids, as young as preschool ages, were being sold extremely narrow definitions of gender roles.    

I want you to see what I saw. So here’s what I did – I tallied the number of kids in each catalog (Target, Walmart, and Toys R Us), then the number of boys and number of girls, I counted how many were doing gender-specific things, and how many were doing unisex or non-traditional gender things. I looked at main color themes and main activity themes. Main themes and gender-normal toys be marketed to boys were: vehicles, fighting/sports/weapons, and construction. Main themes and gender-normal toys being sold to girls were: fashion/beauty, pet/baby care, and cooking. The proof of the pudding is in the eating….  

~Rosie

NOTE: The appeal of Paul Chambers will resume at Doncaster Crown Court on Thursday 11 November 2010

My original post starting the fund. http://bit.ly/bvyZRn

These are not in any order of preference, merely copied and pasted from the Twitter account,if I’ve missed anything let me…