Amazon drops “Boy” and “Girl” categories from toy listings

May 6, 2015 in News by RBN Staff

Source: Boing Boing

11:55 am Wed, May 6, 2015

[Because gender is so overrated. – MS]


Amazon’s toys category is no longer sorted into “Boys” toys and “Girls” toys.

As Kottke points out, there are still unlisted — and awful — Boys and Girls toy-listing pages, but they’re no longer linked off the Toys page. Baby steps, I guess?

This week Amazon eliminated the gendered taxonomy of toys [Jack Danger/Twitter]