What I’ve heard is that Certain Types of parents (you know the ones) are very firmly convinced that every toy is either a Girl Toy or a Boy Toy and giving a Girl Toy to a boy or a Boy Toy to a girl will cause them to turn into whichever minority said parents feel especially bigoted against today. By making both the pink and the blue cash registers, they can sell toy cash registers to these parents no matter what gender they’d otherwise associate cash registers with.
That’s apparently why the Lego Friends toyline (the one with the pastels and the different figures that look like tiny dolls) exists, for instance. Lego originally marketed their stuff as gender-neutral, but parents decided it was a Boy Toy, so they started also making the Girl Version.
and they’ll be stocked in different aisles, and the pink ones cost $2 more
What I’ve heard is that Certain Types of parents (you know the ones) are very firmly convinced that every toy is either a Girl Toy or a Boy Toy and giving a Girl Toy to a boy or a Boy Toy to a girl will cause them to turn into whichever minority said parents feel especially bigoted against today. By making both the pink and the blue cash registers, they can sell toy cash registers to these parents no matter what gender they’d otherwise associate cash registers with.
That’s apparently why the Lego Friends toyline (the one with the pastels and the different figures that look like tiny dolls) exists, for instance. Lego originally marketed their stuff as gender-neutral, but parents decided it was a Boy Toy, so they started also making the Girl Version.