{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"52223072","dateCreated":"1332879372","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"volciaks","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/volciaks","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52223072"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"toys","description":"In the slide show I noticed that in the early periods of time toys were pretty basic and as time progressed, transitioned into electronic, digital, complex devices. I also noticed that board games were listed throughout every decade; however, they seemed to get more complex as well. Beginning in the 1960s we have twister and monopoly, to the 1970s battleship and checkers, to the 1980s Rubik\u2019s cube and trivial pursuit, to the 1990s where board games are replaced by electronic gaming systems. It is worth noting that even the type of toys progressed into futuristic themes. I found it interesting that even though Mr. Potato Head and Buzz Lightyear are from the same movie, Mr. Potato Head was popular in the 1950s and Buzz Lightyear in the 1990s. Dolls are popular throughout time, and even though Barbie is only listed in the 1950s, I know that its popularity has never gone away. I think dolls are so popular because in relation to the article, they provide an expected image and behavior that girls should abide too. Therefore, it is expected for little girls to play with dolls and boys to play with more \u201cmanly\u201d toys. I know from experience that I was obsessed with Barbies as a little girl, but never understood the social aspects that went with the doll. Personally, I don\u2019t think it harms little kids perception of themselves; however, it is an interesting thing to think about because media is always trying to place expectations on society.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52220496","dateCreated":"1332875487","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"Mr.Strictlybusiness","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Mr.Strictlybusiness","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52220496"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Toys MD","description":"The toys over the decades reveal a few different patterns. Stereotypes of men and women are portrayed onto young boys and girls. Girls are subjected to stronger bias because the easy bake oven and the dolls promote the stereotype of preparing food and taking care of children.
\nTechnology is also a guiding factor in toys and as technology gets stronger, the advanced level of the toys come along with it.
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\nThe popularity of dolls relies on tradition of barbies being in place for several decades. In some respects barbies and GI Joes are looked up to from the youngsters that play with them and reveal, one ideal of a pretty woman and one ideal of a heroic man. These toys are imprints on the minds of young children and are sure to leave a powerful influence on the growth and identity of young adults.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52220286","dateCreated":"1332875182","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"jln91996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jln91996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52220286"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Toys","description":"As toys undergo developments from generation to generation, it is clear there are some developing patterns. To create a clear contrast, lets first compare the 50s to the 90s. The 50s' toys seem to be more simple. A slinky for exampe is just coiled wire. However these toys are so extremely simple that the child has no choice but to stretch his or her imagination.
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\nIn comparison, the new generations create toys that are so complex that it is as though the child has no room to apply his or her imagination. The technology age may actually be regressive to our children's abililty to think outside the box.
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\nHowever one toy that seems to carry throughout the ages is a Barbie doll. As noted, Barbie exhibits unrealistic and dangerous bodily images. However, I believe this toy has stayed so poplular because Barbie's age. Most dolls are created to look like Babies so little girls can play Mommy. Barbie is the one doll that is portrayed to look like an older role model of sorts, even if it is conveying the wrong message.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52220014","dateCreated":"1332874708","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"mkdavis10","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mkdavis10","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52220014"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"MKDavis Toys","description":"There always seems to be some type of gender specific toys such as the easy bake ovens and G.I. Joe. They also go along with whatever the current culture is facing: Silly putty was originally created as a synthetic rubber product due to shortages with the war, G.I. Joe was a product of the Vietnam War, and of course anything Star Wars related due to the movies. New technologies the emerge were also easy to see being implemented in the toys.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52219894","dateCreated":"1332874561","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"DaniP10058","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/DaniP10058","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1317069317\/DaniP10058-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52219894"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"RE: Toys","description":"I noticed that as the slides progressed into the 2000s, we began to lose many of our hands-on games because they were being replaced by electronics. Although it is a little unsettling that our toy shelves have been filled with a large amount of electronics and that many people agree that children spend too much time with video games, I think that many MANY children still spend just as much time with hands-on\/creative toys. For whatever reason, many people like to focus on the negative changes that occur over time, and say things like "Well when I was younger we did [INSERT SOMETHING AWESOME THAT YOU DID HERE]. But I think we need to take a closer look at the activities that children still participate in besides video games\/electronics. Many children that I know\/baby sit still play with barbies, GI Joe, Ninja Turtles, etc. Kids LOVE action figures and dolls and I don't think that will be changing any time soon. Also, I have noticed one thing in particular above all: Many moms today are giving their young children cell phones (i'm talking kids that in grade\/middle school). This is OBVIOUSLY ridiculous and I hear many people my age saying how outrageous this is, and how they "never had cell phones until high school." Because of my generation's realization of how ridiculous it is for 11 year olds to have cell phones, I believe that when we are all parents, we will put an end to this habit of giving young CHILDREN cell phones. Almost every person I have brought this up to that is my age has agreed that they will not allow their kids to have phones until they are in high school, unless it is extremely necessary.
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\nWhat do you think of these toys? I love Barbie; I had about 5 of them when I was little, a Barbie Jeep, Barbie house, and a Barbie horse. I think Barbie is timeless and I don't necessarily agree with the extreme notion that Barbies are a bad image for young girls to be playing with. When I was younger, I never once thought: "I have to grow up and be anorexic and look like Barbie." To me, it was just an awesome doll that went on adventures that I got to dress up in awesome clothes so that she could go on her hot date with Ken. I don't think most girls associate their future bodies with Barbie.
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\nWhy do they continue to be popular? Barbies and boy's action dolls are awesome because they can go on adventures. It gives children the opportunity to use their imaginations to do whatever they want. I played with my Barbies literally every day when I was little. My brother had this GI Joe doll that was Barbie's husband and they would go on adventures together and explore different places in order to save the world from the exploding lava volcano (this was their usual adventure). Kids are too busy having fun to sit back and think: When i grow up I have to have a body proportioned like Barbie\/GI Joe in order to be liked by people. We are always so busy trying to protect our kids from these ideas but they are smarter than we think and are too busy having fun.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52219614","dateCreated":"1332874062","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"rachelb462","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/rachelb462","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1327605464\/rachelb462-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52219614"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"toy trends","description":"Through the years toys range from simple to complex. Dating to the 50's toys back then were simple and easy to use. Over the years as technology progressed toys became explicit and used complexity. Board games were a common theme through the years, yet they still became more complex as time went on. Technology is taking the fun out of simple games and making games a way to sit by without gaining social and mechanical skills. Dolls are also a fundamental game that children continute to use. I believe that children continue to use dolls because they need something "perfect" to look up to, to be inspired by. This is a major effect from the media and TV shows. Productions continue to make dolls out of popular characters each year to grasp the minds of young adults and children.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52219214","dateCreated":"1332873532","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"nma97219","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nma97219","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1327605236\/nma97219-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52219214"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Toys","description":"One thing I noticed is that toys in the 50s, like frisbees and hula hoops, were in general more physically active. By the 2000s, electronics were more popular. Dolls, action figures, and other characters seemed to be continually popular.
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\nOn the one hand, I find myself outraged that children would be so subtly exposed to unrealistic body images at such a young age. On the other hand, I loved playing with Barbies as a little girl. I think that Barbies specifically continue to be so popular because they are pretty and it encourages imaginative play. But another reason is because those little girls have mothers who were once little girls and loved to play with Barbies themselves. If they loved to play with Barbie and don't have any (obvious) body image issues, why not allow their daughters to enjoy the same toys?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52219208","dateCreated":"1332873521","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"mas35372","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mas35372","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52219208"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Toys\/Dolls","description":"I found this section to be very enlightening. If we keep holding up these unnatural ideals for body shapes, I think it perpetuates negative body images for children as they grow up. I think they have remained popular because we see these ideas perpetuated in more than just our toys. Photoshopped pictures of emaciated women appear in advertisements all over our country. If we grow up while constantly seeing these images, it will become imprinted on our minds that this is beautiful, and we will then teach this to the future generations. Hopefully, this will soon change as the fads for other toys have changed.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52219182","dateCreated":"1332873480","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"blv68546","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/blv68546","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52219182"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Toys","description":"Earlier on it seemed that toys aloud for more creativity and imagination. Then they turned more electronic or futuristic like buzz lightyear in the 90's. As for why they stay around, I think it would be very difficult for culture to change its idea of what the ideal beauty should be like. Children are very observant. They see what is beautiful on tv and on the news stands displaying magazines at their eye level. That transfers to their toys. They want to play with the things that culture has told them is beautiful. In order to change what toys are popular you would have to effect almost all parts of culture. Many of the toys gave insight to the decades that they were popular in. For instance the 90s is when technology started to boom and there are more toys that look to a science fiction type future being possible.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52219162","dateCreated":"1332873430","smartDate":"Mar 27, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"BrittannieLuscavage","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/BrittannieLuscavage","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1348521717\/BrittannieLuscavage-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/yalit12.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52219162"},"dateDigested":1532920840,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Toys","description":"I think that these toys continue to be so popular because they are staples in a childhood, passed down from generation to generation. Barbie is unrealistic and I think most realize that. However, she sends an image to young girls that this is what they need to look like. I remember having Barbie as a kid and thinking that I wished I could look like her. I didn't get too upset when I didn't, but the thought did cross my mind. Her image could cause children younger and younger to develop eating disorders. The other doll they showed, the more realistic one, should not have been pulled from shelves. She was probably doing more good and promoting a positive body image than Barbie ever will. The same goes for the boys dolls. Obsession with having muscles and a toned body is evident in today's society.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}