#nerf rebelle

[lo-baller]

putting this here for my moots and followers <3

[sherokutakari]

She has too many and no rent or roommate. Further details in link. Better version to come when I’m not on mobile and dealing with facebook…

[nerf-blaster]

Dauntless

Aliases: None

Company: Hasbro

Brand: Nerf

Series: Rebelle

Darts: 3 Collectable Darts

Range: N/A

Priming type: Slide action

Attachments: none

Year Released: 2015

Status: Available

Opinion: Right, you might think that this is my sister’s, it’s not. I got this as a birthday present and I really like it. I mean look at it, doesn’t this have pirate written all over it. If it doesn’t have pirate written all over it, then it at least has Gunslinger.

[behold-ninja-powah-245]

What’s your favorite Nerf Rebelle gun?

[tsivi]

Fuck you guys I LOVED nerd rebelle I LOVE Lego friends I fucking loved boys toys marketed for girls

[womenhoodlooniness]

Pink&Blue: Two Different Worlds

If you have not yet read my blog post talking about the “feminine” concept of the color pink, then check it out here. 

Presented above is the artwork of Jeongmee Yoon titled “Pink and Blue Project” (2005). The purpose was to bring up the issue prevalent in numerous children’s lives which is the heavy color-coded gendering based off of the pink and blue colors. 

I have expressed my distaste for the common stereotypes surrounding pink colors and this artwork strengthens my argument that such stereotypes should be stopped from being acknowledged. My reasoning is that if we let such a concept strive in people’s minds and in young children’s lives, it creates a barrier between two genders. 

In other words, two entirely different worlds are created. 

With this heavy color-coding coming into play, it can also create two different cultures for both girls and boys. Not only with being exposed to one color, but with what that one color brings them. For girls it might be playful kitchen utensils, Barbie movies and Mary Janes. For boys it might be cars, action figures and sneakers. 

By having these two “cultures” be entirely controlled by gender color-coding, it would be easy for the lives of boys and girls to not be harmonized with each other since there would be ingrained expecting roles from each gender. It is as though these “cultures” are meant to separate the genders with color-coded barriers that prevents them from considering each other as equals. 

These “cultures” are meant to expose each gender to all things under a one-sided microscope. A method that does more harm and no good in the long-run when it comes to feminism and other ideas that are supposed to help empower the concept of woman being seen as equal to men. 

It’s even worse when you realize that these “cultures” can be persistent even beyond the baby years. I mean as a baby, you can barely say any words to express an opinion or a liking. But I’m talking about toddlerhood, pre-adolescence, etc. The years where a child has developed the speaking ability to create one’s opinion, if they are even aware of that right. 

Who’s to say if the child is already conditioned to getting used their color-coded lives and has grown to develop a likeness for it. But even from that is already terrifying to think about. 

Imagine getting numbed to the idea that determines your future of either being the caretaker or the breadwinner of the household? Or worse, imagine having expectations be defined by just a color that are also considered to be socially acceptable for your gender? 

It’s sickening. 

I even remember thinking the other day how baby toys such as the Baby Alive doll and other “housewife”-related things such as a kitchen set, baby stroller, etc. was heavily marketed as being “girl toys.” I was shocked by my realization because that is what I was surrounded with all my childhood: the pink conditioning of being okay with becoming a housewife. 

Now, my parents expect more of me nowadays. They’ve expressed many times, especially my dad, that they would literally not allow me to become fully dependent on a man. Overall, they would actually hate to see me being submissive and in a place where I am not thinking for myself. 

With that said, they probably did not even give it a second thought when it came to the different selection of gifts for me and my brother growing up. They just brought whatever was hot for us during the time. 

So the pink and blue conditioning is not always a personal bias, but it’s definitely one enforced by corporations that is at least brainwashing the kids into thinking that they need it and it’s only suited for their gender and their gender only. 

A great example of this is when the Nerf Gun Company came out with a toy gun...just for girls. Now it sounds like an good idea promoting inclusivity at first, but until you realized that it is actually perceived to be suited just for girls. 

I’m talking about pink. 

The products were pink, purple and white (comforting “girly” colors), smaller than the other Nerf Guns marketed for boys, and one of the weapons was even a freaking crossbow. 

WHY IS THERE A FUCKING CROSSBOW INVOLVED IN ALL OF THIS? 

If they really wanted to express genuine inclusivity, the Nerf Gun Company could of still had their extreme, “boyish” commercials be filled with both girls and boys playing around with the original Nerf guns - not the “feminine” Nerf Rebelle. 

Just for the sake of maintaining some kind equality between both gendered demographics. It doesn’t always be separated by girl and boy squads.

But as you can see, corporations are definitely playing into this pink vs. blue feud by having to strongly reinforce these beliefs for the youth. They are purposely avoiding the promotion of harmonized inclusivity by damaging the view of each gender. Instead, they are trying to create something more ridiculously restricting for themselves and between each other. 

These color-coded expectations not only are guiding of personified traits of different gendered childhoods, but also forces boys and girls to become the physical embodiment of them. 

Overall, just the defining influence these two colors have had over the years is insane. The conditioning these colors can do to the youthful mindset is so concerning because it is just differentiating the genders even more through different types of treatments and perceptions.

It does nothing but strengthens various aspects of sexism that haunts us from baby clothes all the way to expected roles of a household. 

It’s needs to be stopped. 

[brush-it-gently]

My little cousin has a Nerf Rebelle. I never knew how much I needed one of these until I held it.

[wayves-domain]

So I’m just casually checking out these Nerf Rebelle posts on Tumblr

and 75% what I read is negative...

I get it, some people say it’s “stereotypical towards girls”, but think about the girls who were bullied or left out because they weren’t allowed to play with “boy” Nerf guns. I, a 17 year old girl, am actually very happy Nerf made a collection for pink-lovers. Why don’t I say girls? Well, the answer is very simple:

Some boys like pink too. And that doesn’t make them automatically gay.

Example: I got the Strongheart Bow for Christmas this year, and my 7yo brother wanted to battle me, but he couldn’t find his elite gun at that time, so I asked him if he wanted the bow, then I would use my other Rebelle gun, and he didn’t care it was pink, he was super happy to play with it.

So, to everyone “hating” on the Rebelle series, think about the other sides of the stories