I’m Hiring This Girl One Day…#WIT
I’m so blown away by how well this girl rants against the onslaught of PINK on girls and females. For us grown-up girls, the concept of "shrink it and pink" as a marketing approach makes me want to run screaming out of the store. I had an exhibitor take a nice 16GB USB drive I was picking up out out of my hand and replace it with a blinged out pink 2GB one, saying "Oh, you want this one instead". No, I didn’t. And the fact that this vendor thought I did spoke volumes for how they felt about their female customers.
Sure, I cart around Barbies and have my fair share of girlie toys, but my Barbies are working girls – Technical Barbies that have job. Astronauts, School teachers, FBI agents, Computer Engineers. Action figures, I call them, because they do something other than look pretty. Most Barbies look like some type of working girl that involves being pretty, but I’ll keep that discussion for later.
Anyway, this video of Riley on Marketing gives me new hope that someday we’ll raise girls to have good analytical thinking.
In fairness to retailers, they stock and display merchandise in a manner that sells best. Parents (and Aunties and Uncles), they do this because you like it. Stop liking it. Don’t just buy for your little girl from an aisle with big sign that says "Girls" over it. Think about where you want your darling girl to be at age 18 – still trying to find a Prince to make her a Princess…or readying to enter post-secondary education so that she never has to rely on anyone but herself. Sure, buy her a Laundry Barbie and a all that princess stuff. Tell her that she is your princess. Let her have her truly silly girlie moments. But please don’t let that be her only professional development plan from age 5-25.
All I know is that when I hire people, I want a hell of lot more Rileys than I do princesses.
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Agreed! I’m so glad I was raised in an era where pink princess shit wasn’t so prevalent.
I had a talking Barbie in the 60s and she was super high tech then. But I don’t remember all the pink crap, either. I remember liking pink for dresses and stuff, but not it covering all the packaging of my toys. I have a twin brother and his toys were always much cooler than mine. No one wanted to buy me Hot Wheels or GI Joe stuff, either. So they bought for my brother and I “shared” them.