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hamburgerjack:

gailsimone:

APE IN A CAPE: An Interesting Question

daidia:

gailsimone:

This came up on Twitter and I must admit, I am of two minds about it.

A poster posted a photo link showing a pink Batgirl outfit for very little girls (or boys, if they are so inclined!).

My first reaction wasn’t, “Oh, man, here we go again, enforcing gender roles on children, everything has to…

my grandmother would always try buy me race-appropriate toys and if she couldn’t, she would make the toys she could blackface. I would have a fit because I couldn’t care less about if the doll looked like me. I just wanted the toy. I liked the character, regardless what she loooked like.

that’s how I feel looking at this costume. it’s a door. if a little girl wants to be pink Batgirl, I’d focus more on the Batgirl aspect than the color.

That is a very powerful post for a lot of reasons. Thank you.

I get why it would bother people, the pink outfit. But if there’s a choice, and no pressure, let the little girl pick the Batgirl she wants to be, I feel.

Okay that’s a good point but lack of racial representation in toys/media/merchandise is not like a pink batgirl costume.

Let’s not do that.

Oh, man, I agree, sorry, I felt there were two different points being made there. I didn’t mean to sound like I was connecting them or equating them.

Sorry, might have been careless with the wording. I just meant:

1) That I found what she said about the race of her toys thing moving, and

2) Separately, that I could see what people were saying about being bothered by the pink.

My fault, just plain clumsy wording. Apologies!