Beware of cute, pink fairies

[icymist]

Beware of cute, pink fairies
By Traci Curth
Special to Toledo Free Press

She's cute, pink and fuzzy. She might make your daughter want to be a – GASP! – girly girl. And apparently, she is also a threat to little girls everywhere. She's Abby Cadabby, the newest Muppet to take up residence on Sesame Street.
Yes, parents that's right. In addition to the usual threats to our children – strangers, MySpace.com, too much junk food – we now have to protect our little girls from a pink fairy-in-training puppet.

Or at least that's what one parental watchdog group wants you to believe.

A group called – get this – the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood says that little Abby is helping people buy “into the girly, girly commercialized image of what it is to be feminine.” They also think that “the last thing little girls needs is one more pink fairy.”

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[Ilsa]

1. These people are so lucky. They must not have

any important shit to obsess over like I do, or they wouldn't spend time promoting such garbage. Well, my son's autism and how the family dynamics affect his sensitive little brother are what I consider to be important.