Target Canada accused of selling 'sexist' toddler PJs

Toronto Sun ^ | 9-30-2014

[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.

[SkyDancer]

Why have we not heard of these hero’s? Right now I’m trying to decide what wine goes with Oreo cookies.

[PhiloBedo]

....and proclaimed the stores anti-second amendment zones.

[leapfrog0202]

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

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Not a thing!

I imagine if the girl’s outfit said I Only Date Wife Beaters then it would be okay.

[a fool in paradise]

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

Much "news" is now culled from Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. Such is journalism these days.

[a fool in paradise]

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.

Captain Canuck predates Alpha Flight.

[SkyDancer]

So with all those Canadian hero’s why the PJ’s from the US???

[a fool in paradise]

WB-DC no longer considers Superman an “American” hero.

http://comicsalliance.com/superman-renounces-us-citizenship/
Superman Renounces U.S. Citizenship in ‘Action Comics’ #900

[SkyDancer]

Yeah, sad isn’t it?

[a fool in paradise]

Hollywood puts foreign receipts over domestic box-office now.

The reboot of Superman had the same “Truth, justice, and ‘that other stuff’” line. Captain America was sold as The First Avenger in foreign markets.

Anti-Americanism is big (Michael Moore’s foreign editions of dvds and books were largely “red white and blue” covered) and Hollywood helped elect our first anti-American president. He won his Grammy in 2006. The fix was long in.

[SkyDancer]

Yeah, the stuff that comes out of Hollyweird is just junk.