The TOY aisle

When brainstorming for our project we were thinking back to some of the blogs we read last night.  The blog post about Sudie Hofmann's chapter, "Miles and Aisles of Sexism," stood out to us.  It is absurd that toy aisles are separated by gender norms.  It would be hard enough for a young girl to admit that she wants to play with nerf guns and ninja turtles, but then add in the fact that she obviously has to walk down the boys aisle makes it that much more difficult.  Our project is a representation of gender neutral toy aisle.  In our aisle we included toys such as "rogue barbie" which is a barbie doll dressed as a warrior/fighter of sorts.  There are also cleaning and cooking products for both boys and girls as well star wars and princess lego sets.  The product itself is only part of the organization, the fact that they are all together is more important.  There is not a section of "boy legos" and "girl legos"  but rather just legos...all types of legos mixed together. If the star wars legos looks cool to the shopping child, there would not be a stigma of which aisle they are shopping in.  Furthermore, if the child were like Laura, she wouldn't even encounter the Star Wars legos because she would NEVER walk down the "boy aisle."