The sexist implications of the term "dinky" seem pretty clear to me, i.e. you have to have a (small) penis to enjoy playing with (small) cars. That's why I force my son to call them "vaggy cars"—no child of mine is going to grow up to be a phallocrat. We're Taking Back the Night, one trivial lexical item at a time.RATING: Gary Coleman%
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Our son's fear of crabs while playing cars is now so clear. We truly are a feminist family.
I don't think Americans refer to them as dinky cars. I think they're all universally called Matchbox cars?
@R
"Feminist family" is either redundant or an oxymoron. Either way that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
@G
Yeah, "Dinky" is british and from the 1930's. Matchbox's first car was actually cast in a Dinky mould. But I figure it's like "mark" and "grade."
"Matchbox" does sound vaguely feminist, though.
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