... and in the "please fill me with righteous feminist rage" category ...

[nonelvis]

Ouija for girls. In pink, naturally.

Found via the Onion, and yes, it's for real. I couldn't skewer this any better than they did, so go read their article.

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[profrobert.livejournal.com]

I hate to tell you, but a lot of this is driven by little girls themselves. A lot of them just gravitate to pink on their own, much to the consternation of their parents.

I've made a point of getting my son some pink things (my favorite is a pink bath towel with a ladybug on it). The message I'll try to give him is that boys and girls can like the same things.

I read a piece a while back that said that gender-specific colors for children only became prevalent in the early 20th Century -- except then it was pink of boys and blue for girls! (Pink was considered a diluted version of red, a fierce color, and therefore appropriate for little boys!)