Some of the folks behind the extra-popular Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon cards are hoping to lure girls with Bella Sara cards.
Instead of featuring monsters and bizarre little creatures, these cards
have pictures of horses. Gawd, always the girls and the horses. I've
read that the prepubescent girl obsession with horses has links to, um,
psycho-sexual development (don't even get me started on the unicorns
with one big horn.) Anyhow the cards have girl power sayings on them
like, "Use your love to bring peace to the world." Maybe they could
also do one that says, "Your thing with horses is totally normal."
Because
these cards are for girls, there's a little twist: theres no
competitive element, unlike Pokemon and Magic.
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