Posted on 12/12/2012 6:58:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
Four-year-old Gavyn Boscio loves to cook and asked for an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas. But when his big sister went to buy one, she discovered to her disappointment that it comes only in girly pink and purple, with girls—and only girls—on the box and in the commercials.
So the eighth-grader from Garfield, N.J., started an online petition asking Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro to make the toy ovens in gender-neutral colors and feature boys on the package.
By Friday, 13-year-old McKenna Pope’s petition had garnered more than 30,000 signatures in a little more than a week.
And celebrity chef Bobby Flay, who owned an Easy-Bake Oven as a boy, is among those weighing in on her side. …
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I know I had Barbie dolls, but my favorite one was the Bionic woman doll. Because I wanted to know how they implanted things in her (of course I didn’t really think of it as implanting then) and how that made her stronger.
I had the Barbie house, but how boring is that when outside I had real live moving critters I could interact with.
When I hit highschool I was introduced to my first computer, chemistry, biology, and algebra and I was in love.
OH! I forgot. When I was a kid, my parents bought me these math exercise books. I would finish them a day or so into vacation. I think I read every kids book the library had.
If we had lived in the same neighborhood as kids, we would have been BFF’s. :) LOL!
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