Posted on 12/08/2012 10:28:32 AM PST by nickcarraway
Is it discriminatory and degrading for toy catalogs to show girls playing with tea sets and boys with Nerf guns? A Swedish regulatory group says yes. The Reklamombudsmannen (RO) has reprimanded Top-Toy, a licensee of Toys"R"Us and one of the largest toy companies in Northern Europe, for its "outdated" advertisements and has pressured it to mend its "narrow-minded" ways. After receiving "training and guidance" from RO equity experts, Top-Toy introduced gender neutrality in its 2012 Christmas catalogue. The catalog shows little boys playing with a Barbie Dream House and girls with guns and gory action figures. As its marketing director explains, "For several years, we have found that the gender debate has grown so strong in the Swedish market that we have had to adjust."
Swedes can be remarkably thorough in their pursuit of gender parity. A few years ago, a feminist political party proposed a law requiring men to sit while urinatingless messy and more equal. In 2004, the leader of the Sweden's Left Party Feminist Council, Gudrun Schyman,proposed a "man tax"a special tariff to be levied on men to pay for all the violence and mayhem wrought by their sex. In April 2012, following the celebration of International Women's Day, the Swedes formally introduced the genderless pronoun "hen" to be used in place of he and she (han and hon).
Egalia, a new state-sponsored pre-school in Stockholm, is dedicated to the total obliteration of the male and female distinction. There are no boys and girls at Egaliajust "friends" and "buddies." Classic fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White have been replaced by tales of two male giraffes who parent abandoned crocodile eggs. The Swedish Green Party would like Egalia to be the norm: It has suggested placing gender watchdogs in all of the nation's preschools.
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What I find hard to believe is that there are any guns in a Swedish toy catalog.
At what point do people get tired of this bs and say enough is enough!
Glad my paternal Grandfather left Sweden in 1882 for the US and Texas in particular! The Swedes are committing cultural suicide with their silly political correctness and socialism.
(Of course things aren’t going too well here for much the same reasons)
As the Bible says, “thinking themselves to be wise, they become as fools”...
If give a boy a stick it becomes a gun or a sword in his hand, never a doll. Obviously these “highly ed-u-macated” fools have never actually watched children. I suspect its an off shoot of the abortion industry, none of these folks every had kids.
After he pulls the head off of it.
Liberalism consists of acting against human nature.
Switching them doesn't eliminate the "discrimination", it just shows the stupid idiocy that passes for "intelligent thought" by the political masters (liberals). Real non-discrimination would be to show both boys and girls together playing with both items.
They don't get enough sun over there in Sweden, do they?
Then cut off their hair and positioned their bodies into gun shapes and used them as weapons. Hilarious.
I heard a story on the Dennis Prager show(if memory serves me correctly) from a former feminist turned conservative who says as a mom she gave her sons Barbie dolls to play with. They played with them alright. They ripped off Barbie’s legs and used them as weapons to attack each other.
“...Liberalism consists of acting against human nature....”
Acts against nature are only one of the many symptoms.
Liberalism is a chronic, debilitating mental disease that rots out the brain’s ability to think logically or objectively. As the disease takes it’s course, you will see self-loathing and violent hatred of others. We’ve all seen it in the headlines.
Until society comes to grips with it being a disease, society will continue to suffer. Once liberalism is recognized for what it really is, then the solution becomes blatantly obvious. Only problem is that there are not enough padded cells for all of em.
I saw a show about 10 years ago. Maybe longer. The commie libs were trying to answer the question, “Are boys really different than girls?” They had this old hippie “mother” who had two little boys that she was trying to raise as two nice little pacifists. One of the experiments they did involved putting the two boys in a room with nothing to play with except for a couple of Barbie dolls. They ended up having a sword fight with the two dolls. LOL!
Were you ever a guest or caller on the Dennis Prager radio show? The reason I ask is heard a story very similar to yours on there.
This subject is so funny to me!
My poor mother despaired of my preferences for baseball and toy guns. She kept buying dolls for me but I kept stripping them naked and dragging them through mud.
It wasn’t until my mother lay dying she confessed to being afraid I was a lesbian when a child. Of course her fears were unfounded. Sometimes a little girl is a tomboy without any sexual context involved.
I think it should be pointed out that when parents are attracted to “cross-genderism” in their children, it is not the training or the children who are in error, but their parents.
Even at the turn of the 20th Century, there were parents who dressed their boys up in dresses, intentionally trying to feminize them. Despite what this said as, even then this wasn’t “social convention”, but parents acting weird.
“Little Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits primly on a stool, his white skirt spread smoothly over his lap, his hands clasping a hat trimmed with a marabou feather. Shoulder-length hair and patent leather party shoes complete the ensemble. We find the look unsettling today, yet social convention of 1884, when FDR was photographed at age 2 1/2, dictated that boys wore dresses until age 6 or 7, also the time of their first haircut.”
Efforts at “cross-genderism” also found a home in the Progressivism movement, alongside all sorts of other dubious efforts at social engineering. They rejected the idea that people had natural programming or ‘design specifications’, and embraced the idea that things like eugenics and conditioning could create “the perfect man”.
They did an impressive amount of evil and harm in the pursuit of their fantasies, and still do.
Beat me to it. Plus the shoot them, blow them up, run them over and many other things real boys do with dolls.
Boys play with “action figures” all the time! Technically, action figures are dolls.
Read a few years back about an experiment done with toys/boys/girl/. The boys with the barbies took the head off and used them as guns....laughed my butt off at the idiots that think boy and girls are the same...male and female are different in all species...
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