Aspirational versus representative. Boys want to be like the hero. Girls want the hero to be like them.
The calls for representation are inherently feminine. Black boys still idolize white Batman. Little girls don’t connect with Batman because he’s not a little girl.
In the early 2000's LEGO did a large test, thousands of kids. That's where a lot of the 'girls project themselves onto the characters (mini figures)' and boys 'become the character, batman, etc' When LEGO employee activists felt that the wrong sort of people were referencing that study, they buried it. Doubling down on the 'boys and girls are exactly the same' rhetoric.
But it makes sense. Growing up my friend and I would play with GI Joes and would have battles. His sister would interject herself and his mom made us let her play so of course the GI Joes became husbands of Barbie. What annoys me is that using that data they can make stuff for women. Well I guess it does make sense when you see how feminists have turned characters into their avatars
Women change material to fit them, whereas men learn everything about the material to become the character.
Aspirational versus representative. Boys want to be like the hero. Girls want the hero to be like them.
The calls for representation are inherently feminine. Black boys still idolize white Batman. Little girls don’t connect with Batman because he’s not a little girl.
I remember reading an essay saying the same thing with boys and girls and toys
In the early 2000's LEGO did a large test, thousands of kids. That's where a lot of the 'girls project themselves onto the characters (mini figures)' and boys 'become the character, batman, etc' When LEGO employee activists felt that the wrong sort of people were referencing that study, they buried it. Doubling down on the 'boys and girls are exactly the same' rhetoric.
But it makes sense. Growing up my friend and I would play with GI Joes and would have battles. His sister would interject herself and his mom made us let her play so of course the GI Joes became husbands of Barbie. What annoys me is that using that data they can make stuff for women. Well I guess it does make sense when you see how feminists have turned characters into their avatars
Yeah it's why all of the Marvel slop (in comics too) has turned into self inserts and slice of life. Not actual stories or adventures.
Disney bought Star Wars because they wanted boy audience / money, but they are so retarded once they owned it, they started making it a girl's brand.