I was watching t.v. the other day and this commercial came on advertising a life size dream house for little girls. The commercial was going great. I thought, "That's cute, the little girl has her own place to go to do whatever she wants". Then I started noticing the things that she was doing in her playhouse. She was washing clothes with her cute little washer and dryer, she was baking muffins in her kitchen and serving her stuffed animals. Then I started thinking why is this little girl's dream house only contain a kitchen and a utility room? All of her activities involved doing house work. At the end of the commercial, there was also another version of the house geared toward living a royal life. It was the princess version of the former and I kind of liked it better because it didn't condition little girls to want to grow up to be housewives. I thought if I had a daughter she would definitely be getting a princess dream house. She'll probably be doing enough house work once she's an adult. I wouldn't want her waste her childhood cooking and cleaning too. I never see commercials for boy's toys that involve house work and I'm not too sure that girls need to be encouraged to think house work is fun either.
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