My two older daughters really enjoy the television series Avatar, the Last Airbender. So much so, in fact, that Santa brought them Appa, the flying bison, and we got them the action figures. Well, we got them a FEW of the action figures. I couldn't justify buying "Spirit Aang", and generic "Fire Nation Warrior" and the like. We bought the main characters... except the blatantly missing ones - Kitara and Toph, the female characters.

Not only is Fisher Price missing out on an entire market of kids, they're being sexist. At least Bandai got it right when they produced the entire line of Teen Titan characters, they DID include Starfire, Raven and Terra.

So tell me, seriously, just how do I explain to my daughters that the female characters weren't worth producing?