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Originally Posted by CEEFAX

I feel that my post has been a little misinterpreted; an established gender divide definitely exists in toys/shows/media - I just felt it worth pointing out that it's most likely learned rather than innate, with most media pandering to it because bucking said trend presents too much potential financial risk in an already artificially-biased market.

I'd say it's a quagmire of intrinsic nature of what Kids tend to gravitate toward and extrinsic nurture either playing into or warring against the gravitation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai.../legos/484115/
http://gizmodo.com/5872578/hey-anti-...lly-kicks-ass/
http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/11/...-little-girls/

As far as I'm concerned, you can only shape this so much and most companies selling to kids know this, Child Psychology is a massive part of making media for children because you need to understand how kids work and as an adult we too often think of kids as tiny adults in reason and comprehension or worse, go "well my child is an X and does Y instead of Z so the idea X likes Z is flawed."

Really, just go for offering the Best toys in the realm of long, imaginative play and take it from there. Skip static one-trick toys that don't encourage character play. DC Super Hero Girls Bumblebee and Transformers RID2 Bumblebee? That's the kind of toy a kid needs. Something to give a character to and play adventures with.

Anyway all this Boys Brands/Girls Brands junk aside, I'm still liking what I see. Green Girl Ranger looks fun, Mecha are interesting, I'm curious to see where they go.