53 Shopping Days Left Until Xmas

The gender coding time of year has started off with a bang. Every time I turn on the TV I am assaulted by commercials featuring little girls playing with plastic stoves and oh, how cool it is and they talk! Apparently, when she wasn't off having adventures featuring sharks, shipwrecks and the rescuing of handsome princes, Ariel was busy filleting fish. I was unaware.

So, sorry. Pardon my sarcasm.

Did you SEE how much junk she had in that cavern? Do you know how much TIME it takes to accumulate that much stuff? How much searching and exploring has to be done? I guess the marketing peeps over at Disney don't really think so.

What really got me, however, was the Dora the Explorer stove.

( Buffy got it wrong: Re-inscribing the Active Feminine Just in Time for Christmas. )

Oh and a note to glossing: THANK YOU!! I will email you later. But everything made perfect sense and thank you thank you thank you!!!