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Love the place! I saw that Heart's "Dreamboat Annie" album was filed in with male vocalists. Somebody move that, please!

If I had a dollar for every time I read, "you're over thinking" on a blog post, I'd buy Disney. It's called critical thinking, people. It's not trivial, I have spent a great deal of my college years and (short) professional life studying the marketing of extremely gendered products to children. I teach first grade and see how children are bombarded with commercialism almost 'round the clock.
The kinds of toys they end up playing with lead to scripted play in which they act out specific stuff, using very little imagination, and rarely stepping out of gendered norms. Disney books are not good literature! Try and read one, see what you think.
Furthermore, no one is suggesting these toys will cause severe brain damage, but I am asking you to take a look at what is being marketed to your child and consider it's messages. Thank you, Peggy! I've been following your work and appreciate what you're doing.

http://lovelylisting.icanhascheezburger.com/ This blog, which makes fun of unusual real estate listings has a long running joke about these chairs. They use personification and make up stories about "Chair," and provide some solid cheap laughs.

So cute and I can't help but thinking, "what is it with kids this age and pulling things apart?" Books on a shelf? Pull them off and fling to the floor! Good thing they're cute.