This amused me a lot, largely because I was totally obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid. This probably had more to do with my mother’s vague distaste for Barbies and obsession with encouraging me to do sciencey stuff (who else remembers this book? this book was basically the coolest thing ever, I hope I still have the magnet from it sitting around somewhere. I think this thing entertained me for years.) but like, really, I kind of think it’s hilarious reading all this analysis on dinosaurs being gendered — but the comments + edits to the post bring up a lot of great talking points, like about SEO and the necessity of including these things often because of demand (people googling ‘dinosaurs’ and ‘girls’) and other marketing-type concerns, and also about how unfair this sort of gendering is to boys also. Is there a “Bratz dolls for boys” section? No, didn’t think so.
Anyhow, the point of this is basically that dinosaurs are totally awesome and that all of mine got on really well with all of my Barbies and also my rock collection and pieces of whatever toy kitchen set I had and probably some art supplies too, and I am totally okay with that.
