My Little Dinosaur

[antorbitalfenestrae]

Anyone heard of these? Apparently made by Tyco's Playtime Products in 1992 in an attempt to replace Hasbro's MLP toys.

[Flaffy]

Anyone heard of these? Apparently made by Tyco's Playtime Products in 1992 in an attempt to replace Hasbro's MLP toys.

What Are Thoooooose?! 

[Archinto]

Now THAT is wild! I don't remember seeing these growing up, and trust me, I'd have noticed them LOL, being both a dinosaur and vintage mlp collector.... :p

[Silvanusaurus]

These are quite literally the worst things I have ever seen.

[Sim]

I'd never heard of those before!  Also thanks to this forum I know My Little Pony made a dinosaur called Cutesaurus.

[irimali]

Finally!  All my life I've been looking for a set of monster drag queen embryos.

[Halichoeres]

Hilarious. Jenny reminds me of my aunt in Tennessee.

[tyrantqueen]

These are quite literally the worst things I have ever seen.

Meh, they're not all that bad. Very G1 My Little Pony esque. I wouldn't buy them, but they're not bad for little girls to play with.

[Nanuqsaurus]

Please put a warning in the title of this post, this can be harmful to anyone with eyes.

[terrorchicken]

 those sauropods with the big red lips...

[Lanthanotus]

[Silvanusaurus]

These are quite literally the worst things I have ever seen.

Meh, they're not all that bad. Very G1 My Little Pony esque. I wouldn't buy them, but they're not bad for little girls to play with.

What about for little boys? 

[Flaffy]

These are quite literally the worst things I have ever seen.

Meh, they're not all that bad. Very G1 My Little Pony esque. I wouldn't buy them, but they're not bad for little girls to play with.

What about for little boys?

Jurassic Park!! When was the "My little Dinosaur" line released?

[Viergacht]

Sans the hair and lipstick, they're actually pretty cute.

[tyrantqueen]

These are quite literally the worst things I have ever seen.

Meh, they're not all that bad. Very G1 My Little Pony esque. I wouldn't buy them, but they're not bad for little girls to play with.

What about for little boys?

Uh....yeah, sure. If you like.

[antorbitalfenestrae]

These are quite literally the worst things I have ever seen.

Meh, they're not all that bad. Very G1 My Little Pony esque. I wouldn't buy them, but they're not bad for little girls to play with.

What about for little boys?

Uh....yeah, sure. If you like.

Yeah how about we don't start stereotyping toy preferences based on gender. :/ (thanks Silvanusaurus)

[Silvanusaurus]

I was just trying to make a joking comment upon how appalling the gender stereotyping seen in these toys actually is, I think it's a deeply upsetting aspect of modern culture, but you are right that this is not the place to discuss it.

[tyrantqueen]

These are quite literally the worst things I have ever seen.

Meh, they're not all that bad. Very G1 My Little Pony esque. I wouldn't buy them, but they're not bad for little girls to play with.

What about for little boys?

Uh....yeah, sure. If you like.

Yeah how about we don't start stereotyping toy preferences based on gender. :/ (thanks Silvanusaurus)

It's a stereotype that is firmly rooted in human evolution. We know that boys and girls gravitate to certain kinds of toys. I don't have an issue with a little boy wanting to play with a girl's toy, but I think the marketing of gendered toys is perfectly acceptable. By the way, even monkeys show a preference for gendered toys.

I was just trying to make a joking comment upon how appalling the gender stereotyping seen in these toys actually is, I think it's a deeply upsetting aspect of modern culture, but you are right that this is not the place to discuss it.

Not so fast. If you didn't want to start a debate, you shouldn't have said anything. You don't get to start something then have the last word by closing the debate, that's not fair.

It's not an aspect of modern culture either, it's part of human evolution, as I mentioned above. Gender stereotypes exist because they are needed for human society to function.

[antorbitalfenestrae]

It's a stereotype that is firmly rooted in human evolution. We know that boys and girls gravitate to certain kinds of toys. I don't have an issue with a little boy wanting to play with a girl's toy, but I think the marketing of gendered toys is perfectly acceptable. By the way, even monkeys show a preference for gendered toys.

I was just trying to make a joking comment upon how appalling the gender stereotyping seen in these toys actually is, I think it's a deeply upsetting aspect of modern culture, but you are right that this is not the place to discuss it.

Not so fast. If you didn't want to start a debate, you shouldn't have said anything. You don't get to start something then have the last word by closing the debate, that's not fair.

a) just because something is "rooted in evolution" (which it's not, there is nothing to support the idea that men and women's brains are fundamentally different) doesn't mean that an entire cultural thing, that is deeply harmful to more than half the population, can or should come out of it.

b) if you want to point fingers, I don't think anyone else wanted to actually start a debate, but let's not get into that

c) I would be glad to discuss this further either privately or in a different thread but, like Silvanusaurus said, this isn't the place for it. i just wanted to share this picture, not get into an argument about gendered toys, as important as the issue is.

[tyrantqueen]

a) just because something is "rooted in evolution" (which it's not, there is nothing to support the idea that men and women's brains are fundamentally different) doesn't mean that an entire cultural thing, that is deeply harmful to more than half the population, can or should come out of it.

But men and women's brains ARE different. There's plenty of research to indicate that.

Women have a larger corpus callosum for example. Men have overall bigger brains too.