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I was reminded of this very old draft post I started today as Twitter lit up with discussion over the Pink Astronaut Barbie . Is it bad because it's pink, or good because it's an astronaut. Maybe it's a bit of both....  Once in a while online, a discussion will start over Lego Friends . I think almost all pros and cons of a pink astronaut Barbie can be applied to this toy too.... For anyone not familiar with this, here they are. It's Lego, but with slightly more anatomically correct little dolls. The girl on the left above (Olivia) looks like this in the toy. And there's some little animals. And the bricks are more likely to be pink. I have to confess here that my daughter loves it. We have several sets at home, and she would like to save up for Olivia's House (it comes up a lot). We once swapped a blond pink princess (Barbie esk) doll for a Lego Friends set (blond dolls are banned in our household until we have more non-blond dolls). So Lego Friends has been ar...

I've written a couple of posts about Barbie before - "Do we Need a Physics Barbie" and about a blog round on Geologist Barbie . In that last post I comment that the Barbie in my house is quite pink (although at six my daughter is beginning to favour purple over pink), but that it's OK to like pink and be good at Maths and Science, so I see no big problem with that. So then I suppose my response to this very pink Barbie the Mars Explorer  which was released yesterday should be quite positive. Somehow it does make me a bit uncomfortable though.... real space suits are not pink, and definitely not fitted to accentuate Barbie curves. In fact I once went to an incredibly inspirational talk by Mae Jemison when she talked about how badly proportioned space suits we for her figure. She most grumbled about the gloves though.... Space Barbie seems to have forgotten her gloves which is a bit worrying. This is more positive: The Mars Explorer Barbie packaging art includes a lis...