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Episode 45: Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets"

Very Bad Wizards

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Do Girls Really Want to Play With Toys?

"I don't think that they should be wanting to play with the same toys. That's your end." "Why not let society and commercials and their friends tell them what to play with? All I'm saying is, you're a parent... why not get your daughter in Aunt Farm instead of the fucking princess from Disney?" 'If the problem is we're not getting girls into science enough,' she says,. 'that might have something to do with it' ''You are being so thick-headed about this,'" he adds. "'The premise is that there are subtle gender stereotypical communications that go along with the kinds of activities and toys that girls are encouraged to play with'"

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