Am I just cranky this week, or are people being really exasperating?

There is annoying WOEZ WOEZ PC article criticising the protest against pink girly Lego ('celebrating not architecture and action but beauty salons, cupcake bakeries and poodle parlours': pass me a sparkly pink sickbag) in today's Guardian.

It is particularly irksome because Hannah Betts goes ' the one area we should never seek to police is [children's] imaginations'.

How is this ghastly, from what I hear, practically universal gender essentialism in children's toys and other paraphernalia, not a mind-forg'd manacle upon their imaginations and sense of the acceptable and appropriate?

I don't think little girls should be forcibly prevented from indulging any taste for pastels and sparkles and ponies and fairy princesses (any more than little boys should).

I think they should be allowed to know that there are other options available and pink is not the only colour they are allowed.

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And Amazon have actually sent me a promotional email for the notorious Bic for Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen pack. What fresh hell is this? Do they not get the mockery and sarcasm all over teh intahnetz?