Should We Have ‘Boy Toys’ and ‘Girl Toys?’
According to a recent Boston.com story, there is a movement to stop identifying toys as gender-specific, in order to remove any stigma from, say, boys playing with Barbie dolls or girls playing with G.I. Joe.
The story believes that this gender identification of toys began in the 1980s, when the FCC removed restrictions and allowed manufacturers to directly market their products to certain childr