We hope you approve...
We are excited and proud to launch Pinkstinks Approved - A page celebrating the gender-free children's products you love! Please send photos and suggestions of your favourites to pinkstinks.info@googlemail.com and we'll publish them here. For inspiration have a look to see who we've 'approved' already...
We're running a short survey and would like to hear from YOU about your experiences of 'pester power' and 'pinkification'. You can link to the anonymous survey HERE.
Our NEW Role Model of the Month page is now online, featuring Explorer Felicity Aston.
This month also saw the publication of Natasha Walter's IMPORTANT new book: Living Dolls - the return of sexism. We are thrilled to get a mention on page 236! Natasha tackles issues surrounding today's highly sexualised and increasingly narrow definition of femininity, and she eloquently takes issue with the 'rhetoric of choice which masks the very real pressures on this generation of women'. Please read IT and spread the word.
Finally, we received an amazing COMMENT to our blog from an 11-year-old girl which sums up what we are all about and what we hope to achieve:
'I'm a 11 year old girl and I HATE PINK and glittery fairy princesses! I LOVE science, maths climbing trees and science experiments that go bang.
'I moved to France when I was 9 and there's not as much pink as in England with the clothes but it's still quite bad with the toys.
'In England, I decided to join the Brownies as I enjoy adventure and camping. But soon I got bored as there was to much pink and girlie stuff so I joined the Cubs instead. Cubs was much better and there was not a trace of pink. We got to climb trees, cook on the fire, make shelters, none of this we did in Brownies.
'I get really annoyed when the science toys are on the 'boys'' side of the shops. Since moving here I've met women who work at CERN - the largest science experiment in the world and the place where I want to work when I grow up. I went to a great day organised by 'Expanding your Horizons' for girls interested in science. This was a really good idea because I got to meet girls like me who like science which was really nice because I'm usually the odd one out. http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/
'I think wearing pink by choice is fine but I'd like to wear green. In the UK it was really hard to find clothes for me that were green. It is almost as though the shops are saying 'girls SHOULD wear pink' and also that girls who like science and want to wear green are weird.
'So I look forward to seeing more things on 'cooltobeme'. Perhaps some ideas for fun stuff to go, puzzles, reviews of books that show that girls can have adventures and be just as good as boys at solving mysteries.'
February 2010





