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18.03 - 11:47
Six-year-old girl wanted ‘Girl Green Army Men’ and the company agreed
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Plastic Army Men have been a favorite toy for over 80 years – and now women have joined their ranks. It’s all thanks to a six-year-old girl who wrote to manufacturers asking why there aren’t green plastic army women.
And one toy maker, who had been wanting to add women to his little fighting force for a while, made her dream come true. ‘Why do you not make girl army men?’ Various toy companies have been making the little army men, usually 2.5cms (one inch) tall, since 1938.
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07.03 / 07:21
Washington Blade
Semi-obscure Shakespeare play ’Timon’ re-gendered in winning STC production
Before it was commonplace, Kathryn Hunter was into gender swapping. In 1997, she played Shakespeare’s King Lear — the first British woman to do so professionally. She’s also played Richard III, as well as innumerable female roles including Cleopatra, and even assayed the part of a monkey. Diminutive with long sinewy limbs and an extraordinarily expressive countenance and raspy voice, she’s been described admiringly as a “shape shifter.”
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