jaklumen
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response 5 of 10:
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Dec 24 23:11 UTC 2002 |
Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 2nd ed: gamin, n. [Fr.] a
street urchin or street Arab; a homeless or neglected child left to
roam the streets. Hmm, the alternate definition must be very recent.
resp:4 Not bloody likely. We're talking yin and yang here; cut-and-
dried definitions. There are girlie-girls and there are tomboys.
Of course, there's always the middle of the road..
The Powerpuff Girls
Bubbles- ingenue (well, even the name is a dead give away)
Blossom- neither, sort of in between
Buttercup- tomboy
How they are dressed has nothing to do with it.
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jaklumen
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response 6 of 10:
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Dec 24 23:18 UTC 2002 |
Gamins must be getting the upper hand despite efforts to the contrary.
But deliberate gender segregation in the toy business is still
obnoxious.
When I worked at Toys R Us, I can't count the number of times I helped
customers who were shopping for girls in the boys' section. Now, it
wasn't the deliberately boy toys like cars and robots and such-- it was
Toy Story characters that happened to be male (like Woody), Star Wars
characters that were more comic relief (a C3P0 figure for a toddler
girl), Cartoon Network characters, etc (except the confusing part was
all Nickelodeon Rugrats characters were in the girl's aisle, no matter
*what* the toy was).
I also remember telling my boss that the colors a "skater" remote
control girl toy was in, well, no skater chick would be caught dead in
that. He said yeah, well, we have to set an example.
XD~~
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