Why are stores gendered

U 26 May I love blue but that does not make me a boy. I understand dividing shops for adult clothing; women and men are typically different shapes and though I do wear some clothes from the children's sections, mainly my attire is from the women's sections, and I definitely wouldn't be able to wear boy's clothes as the proportion would be wrong. It is strange how clothes for people who are very similar are segregated.

Have you seen "Social butterfly" on girls' tops and "little scholar" for boys. It is just perpetuating gender stereotypes!! Izzy 26 May I hate going to shops and all the girls clothes are pink and stupid but the boys are cool P. S mins girl and like boys clothes more.

The Stegosaurus 24 May Everyone's disagreeing with it so they would make more money with unisex stuff! Like if you agree! PhotographerDancer 24 May I put not sure. I'm completely disagree with the pink is for girls blue is for boys. I think they should have a unisex section. GlitterUnicorn11 19 Mar In my family all the girls like blue. I think shops steroetype the genders. Mariai 19 Mar I'm a girl and i AlWaYS used to play with lego city, never lego friends.

U 19 Mar I think that pink and blue can be liked by both genders. Someone I know who is a boy hates blue and loves pink. I am a girl but dark blue and real are my favourite colors.

That's why I hate gender stereotypes. Having a girls and boys section in shops is just annoying. PhotographerDancer 19 Mar Girls can like blue and boys can like pink. Shiny silver flute 23 Feb Shops shouldn't be split into gender. U 22 Feb Products that get gendered can be absolutely ridiculous , but it is not going to stop anytime soon; society will always unnecessarily gender items because of the market demand.

To change this, it starts with being more aware. Image by Janet McKnight. Greenwald Sarah April 16, For example, many pointlessly gendered products advertise that the one for women is smaller and, thus, a better fit for women. The packaging on these ear buds, sent in by LaRonda M. Maybe some women would appreciate smaller earbuds, but it would still be much more straightforward to make ear buds in different sizes and let the user decide which one they wanted to use.

Products like these make smaller men and larger women invisible. They also potentially make them feel bad or constrain their choices. Why would gender matter for making babies? Or are you trying to say that a man can't have a uterus? I'd guess most people would agree with at least a couple of your points, but a you rarely offer solutions to these phenomena and that's just People do no invest money to develop and market products with the goal of affirming the status quo.

They do so to make money from people who voluntarily buy their products instead of others. Some succeed. Some fail. And it appears that products which are specifically tweaked to appeal to gender still do pretty well. Also, do not forget that the most successful "pointlessly gendered products" of all time are clothes.

You don't need kids toys to make your point; just go after virtually every clothing store in the world. I was just thinking about this while cruising the Darkhorse Hellboy merchandise site. They are charging more for less fabric. That makes sense. I would just buy a men's, but they don't have a small and I'd be swimming in a medium.

Simply showing kids pictures of girls playing with Lego bricks and boys playing with pink stuffies helps them understand how natural it is for them to embrace all kinds of toys, colors, clothes and skill sets.

Some stores have already promoted this cross-gender embrace. Target stopped gendering toy sections in I would much prefer to see this important shift occur voluntarily, rather than be legislated, but sometimes the law leads the zeitgeist. It is absurd to believe that pink and rainbows and hearts and kindness are for girls and blue and trucks and balls and roughness are for boys.

This is a practice that will benefit all children — boys, girls, intersex kids and those who identify any number of ways, from genderfluid to trans, and those who identify as straight, cisgender, too.

Lisa Selin Davis. Read more.