How a six-year-old's complaint led to the creation of female toy soldiers

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Vivian Lord, from Little Rock, Arkansas, wrote to toy companies after realising that all toy soldiers were invariably male, writes Mihir Zaveri

That bothered Vivian. So she questioned her parents. Her mother, Brittany Lord, suggested that her daughter write a letter and complain directly to the toy companies that make and sell the soldiers. So Vivian did. “Why do you not make girl army men, my friend’s mom is in the army too!!” Vivian wrote in her letter, which Brittany Lord sent to three toy companies.

 

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Where’s her spatula?

Reads like that remind me of that episode of friends with the male nanny when the boys cant finish the sentence of “That's like a woman wantin' to be a...” Joey’s hilarious though 😂

That's like letting women sexually harass men in order to balance 'The Universe' How about we stop the overglorification of the military?

Oh please! How nauseating

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