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Target Canada accused of selling 'sexist' toddler PJs
Toronto Sun ^ | 9-30-2014

Posted on 09/30/2014 12:36:30 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Target Canada is accused of selling pajamas that are sexist and sexualize baby girls.

In a tweet, Aimee Morrison, an associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, posted a photo of girl PJs next to a similar design for boys.

The girls' pajamas say, "I only date heroes."

The boys' pajamas read, "Future man of steel."

Morrison called on her Twitter followers to retweet the "sexist set of baby jammies."

In an interview Tuesday, Morrison said it's been shared hundreds of times and the overwhelming response has been people questioning why DC Comics or Target would think the girl PJs are OK.

The idea boys can be heroes and girls can only date them is just part of the problem, she says.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.torontosun.com ...


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1 posted on 09/30/2014 12:36:30 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

I don’t get it. What’s wrong with them?


2 posted on 09/30/2014 12:38:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Does target sell PJs that include a face burka? We must cater to all sensitivies you know.


3 posted on 09/30/2014 12:38:59 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Tagline deleted at the request of an offended FReeper.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I think they are cute PJs.

Ebola,ISIS,and swarms of immigrant children and THIS is a problem?

People have to lighten up.

.


4 posted on 09/30/2014 12:39:59 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Tenacious 1

A burqa with footies that says,
“I only date beheaders.”?


5 posted on 09/30/2014 12:40:49 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Because “Future Person of Steel” would be so cute. :/


6 posted on 09/30/2014 12:40:56 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Citizen Zed

This is the same type of leftist who is all for teaching “how to” sex ed including all kinds of perverse practices to 4th graders.

Logic, reason, and consistency aren’t their strong suits. Only emotion, and mostly only the bad ones such as envy, jealousy, and the like.


7 posted on 09/30/2014 12:45:36 PM PDT by piytar (So....you are saying that Hilllary (and Obama) do not know what the meaning of the word "IS" IS?)
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To: Citizen Zed

I quit shopping at Target when the company issued a statement celebrating sodomy.


8 posted on 09/30/2014 12:47:51 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Citizen Zed

How do stories like this make into the newspaper. Who cares what this professor thinks?


9 posted on 09/30/2014 12:53:54 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Citizen Zed
The pink one should read "I only go with straight men"
And the black one should read "I only go with girls who are not psycho".

Just think of the reaction!

10 posted on 09/30/2014 12:57:11 PM PDT by DaveyB ("When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: tet68

+1


11 posted on 09/30/2014 12:57:48 PM PDT by Principled (Obama: Unblemished by success.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Ughhhhhhh!


12 posted on 09/30/2014 12:58:47 PM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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To: Citizen Zed

And if you put that pink one on a little boy, those same crybabies will find it completely ok.


13 posted on 09/30/2014 1:10:01 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Citizen Zed
If the pink one was marketed for boys and other one for girls there’d be no problem I assume.
14 posted on 09/30/2014 1:13:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: Citizen Zed

if someone thinks they are sexist, just don’t buy them! sheesh... personally, i never purchased clothing for my sons that had messages on them... i do not like them, so i do not buy them... it isn’t difficult...


15 posted on 09/30/2014 1:14:51 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s the whiners who sit at home drinking hot chocolate crying over the decline of civilization. Or, they’re angry because Canada doesn’t have comic book hero’s other than Renfrew of the Royal Mounted Police a sexist boy hero. Oh, I forgot Red Panda Roach and Rocket Robin to name a few.


16 posted on 09/30/2014 1:24:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: SkyDancer

Wolverine is Canadian....


17 posted on 09/30/2014 1:34:55 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: BenLurkin

I am frequently amazed at what liberals find offensive/disturbing/sexist/racist, etc.


18 posted on 09/30/2014 1:37:38 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Yeah, him too. But other than say him, who else. I wonder what would have happened if the boy’s PJ said Hero Wolverine? And the girl’s said “I Only Date The Wolverine” or something.


19 posted on 09/30/2014 1:45:08 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: SkyDancer

All of Alpha Flight is Canadian. Sabretooth is Canadian.

Even the vaunted Scott Pilgrim :).


20 posted on 09/30/2014 1:58:07 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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