it really is that simple
Just now, walking my 5 year old son home from school, the following conversation happened:
Son: Mummy, when are you going to get a toy girl Transformer?
Me: I don’t know; I hadn’t been planning on getting one.
Son: You should get two girls that can govine!
Me: Combine.
Son: Com-bine. You should get two girls that can combine!
Me: That would be pretty cool.
Son: There’s Strongarm, Bumblebee - wait, Bumblebee’s not a girl!
Me: No, but he is pretty cool.
Son: Yeah. So there’s Strongarm, Windblade, uh…
Me: Arcee?
Son: Arcee, yeah. [pauses] Huh. That’s all the girl Transformers. There’s really not many.
Me: No, there’s not. There should be more girls, I think.
Son: There should be girl Decepticons, too! More girl Decepticons AND Autobots!
Me: I agree.
Son: [frowning, puzzled] Why aren’t there any more girls, mummy?
Me: Because the people who made it didn’t think to put them there.
Son: Mummy, Transformers weren’t made by someone. They were created on Cybertron!
Me: Yes, in the show. But the show is a story, and the story was made by someone, right?
Son: Yeah?
Me: And sometimes, when people make stories, they leave girls out, which I don’t like. It’s sexist.
Son: I like boys AND girls!
Me: I like boys and girls, too.
And then he ran inside, because we were home by then, and asked if he could have an afternoon snack.
Representing women on screen: so simple a five year old can independently reason out why it’s important and how to fix it. Adults have no excuse.
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