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This little girl is asking all the right questions. Riley, like many of us, doesn’t understand the need for toys to have gender separation. In my opinion, those pesky pink and blue aisles at toy and department stores only serve to segregate. She points out that the colors trick us into only buying princesses for girls and superheroes for boys. It pushes girls towards Barbies and boys towards model cars. She states it simply and honestly, “Some girls like superheroes, some girls like princesses. Some boys like superheroes, some boys like princesses.”

Why does everything need to be different colors? We wonder the same thing, kid.

Watch the adorable video after the break.

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Seth Godin, marketing guru and fellow blogger now has his own action figure complete with accessories like a mini-book of marketing secrets, a mystery gift, and some kick-ass mismatched socks. Your Gi-Joes will undoubtedly be quaking in their plastic boots in the presence of a figure this dynamic. The only question is —where the hell is my action figure?

Product Page ($8.95 / Seth Godin’s Blog)