Comment Re:There's no winning with the feminist crowd... (Score 1) 490
All of the science stuff I grew up with was pretty generic. "Rock Tumbler!" - it had a picture of the rock tumbler, which was black, gray, and red on the outside. That was it. It wasn't gender specific in any way.
My chemistry set came packaged in cardboard with a clear plastic window that let you see the contents which were about as visually exciting as a bunch of little plastic bottles, tweezers, and test tubes could be. They box was silvery gray and mostly contained a bunch of text about what was included. Again, marketed to no gender in particular.
My telescope was packaged in plain cardboard with the words "Sears" and "Telescope" stamped on it. How I miss the Sears catalog - when you ordered something it came in generic looking packaging with none of the blister-pack marketing non-sense attached.
Not marketed to girls? I would argue the stuff from my era wasn't exactly marketed to boys either, these were gifts to me growing up in the 80's and 90's. - Supposedly when things were worse than they are now.
This social-justice-warrior high-horse garbage spilling over into the day-to-day articles on Slashdot is horse crap.