The festive season has come early thanks to the results of a focus group carried out by toy manufacturer Martin Yaffe, which invited children to test this year's top Christmas toys. Seven out of 10 girls chose to play with the toys designed for boys. How anyone could be surprised is beyond me: the Bob the Builder Snaptrax set comes with a working car wash and dryer. Barbie comes with the big thrill of a vacant expression and - woo! - moving limbs.
Who's dumb exactly?
A study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology has found that men become more stupid after talking to blonde women. Their mental performance drops apparently because they believe they are dealing with someone a bit thick. Like those famous blonde dumbos Hillary Clinton or the scientist Baroness Greenfield, presumably. Now we blonde girls can only wonder what high-falutin' chats our brunette sisters are having with the guys, and speculate on how the intelligence of anyone who engages his brain on the basis of hair colour was ever at recordable levels in the first place.
Send us your ideas
The women's pages had so many fantastic entries for the inaugural Mary Stott Prize (the winner edits the pages for a week) that we chose two winners, Natalie d'Arbeloff and Bridget Orr. We have also commissioned one of four runners up, Wendy Roby, to write a piece she suggested about random acts of feminism. These are small, simple acts that allow us all to inject feminism into our daily lives, like turning over the lads mags in a newsagent so that the covers face the wall. We would love to include your suggestions of other random acts, so please send them to us at women@theguardian.com