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I like your Barbie Corvette story. I wasn't allowed to have Barbie... "poor role model". The Easy Bake oven was a gift from my grandmother, and my mother flipped out about that because she thought it was encouraging a gender role she didn't want me to adopt. (Woman in the kitchen, etc. etc.)
I loved my oven. I generally used it to heat up frozen tater tots as tasty afternoon snacks, because we could never afford the Easy Bake replacement cake mix packs. 
I believe the girl who started the petition did it on behalf of her little brother who was interested in cooking and didn't want a "girly" Easy Bake oven. (As for me, I would have not taken to that purple flowery thing just like you didn't want a pink Barbie Corvette.)
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