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NJ teen wants Easy-Bake Oven to appeal to boys (barphalert)
Associated Press ^
| Dec. 7, 2012 3:36 PM ET
| Michelle R. Smith
Posted on 12/12/2012 6:58:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
Four-year-old Gavyn Boscio loves to cook and asked for an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas. But when his big sister went to buy one, she discovered to her disappointment that it comes only in girly pink and purple, with girlsand only girlson the box and in the commercials.
So the eighth-grader from Garfield, N.J., started an online petition asking Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro to make the toy ovens in gender-neutral colors and feature boys on the package.
By Friday, 13-year-old McKenna Popes petition had garnered more than 30,000 signatures in a little more than a week.
And celebrity chef Bobby Flay, who owned an Easy-Bake Oven as a boy, is among those weighing in on her side.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: easybakeoven; genderneutral; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia
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posted on
12/12/2012 6:58:57 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I don’t understand the barfalert. So guys shouldn’t cook? I suppose they should just hit something over the head, drag it past the fire and eat it raw?
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:02:06 PM PST
by
newheart
(The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
To: Olog-hai
Horse dung.
What difference does it make what color it is?
Toss the Easy Bake in the trash and teach the kid to cook on a real stove.
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:03:44 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: newheart
It’s not a reference to the oven itself, but to the endless search for so-called “gender-neutral” everything. I learned how to cook a full Irish breakfast before I was six years old after all . . .
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:03:59 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Venturer
Teach ‘em on an open flame. Nothing like meat cooked in that fashion . . .
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:05:07 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I am male. I'm a culinary professional. You have a barf for that?
Petitioning the manufacturer, instead of suing is the right way.
/johnny
To: Olog-hai
Why doesn’t mommy cook with both of them in their real kitchen? That’s what this mommy does with my four year old son and 14 month old daughter. The bigger the mess the more the fun!
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:06:13 PM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Did you happen to notice the words “gender neutral” in the body of the article . . . ?
And I may be no professional, but I learned on the real thing in my youth, both with electric and gas stoves.
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:07:28 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I learned how to cook a full Irish breakfast before I was six years old after all . . .
Bushmills it not just for breakfast anymore.
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:09:40 PM PST
by
razorback-bert
(I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
To: razorback-bert
Is this the Irish version of Ke$sha, LOL
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:11:06 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Olog-hai
It should be gender neutral. Heck, if Hasbro changed the colors and used Bobby Flay as a sales flack, they might sell more of them.
I applaud the sales of AR-15 style firearms in pink, so they appeal to girls, why wouldn't I be happy if Hasbro made an Easy-bake in OD green? I might buy one for the grandsons.
/johnny
To: Olog-hai
It appeals to me. I want to stick this kid’s head in one.
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:13:12 PM PST
by
Defiant
(If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
To: razorback-bert
Bushmills it not just for breakfast anymore. But it does pretty good if you can't get a real Tennessee breakfast.
/johnny
To: Olog-hai
Only when girls want the Red Ryder bb gun.
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:14:28 PM PST
by
ProudFossil
(" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
To: Olog-hai
How are they going to keep making these ovens anyway? Don’t they use an incandescent lightbulb to cook the food?
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:15:09 PM PST
by
boop
("I need another Cutty Sark"-LBJ)
To: razorback-bert
Jameson is usually the preferred one for Dubliners, what with it having been the local one originally (before they became a big conglomerate). One of my relatives prefers Paddy, though (Cork brand).
I was able to cook most of this at a young age. Only preferred the bacon and sausage at the time, because that was all my stomach could handle . . .
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:16:02 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Teach the kid to use a real oven, good lord, people have way to much time on their hands.
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:16:14 PM PST
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: Olog-hai; All
"NJ teen wants Easy-Bake Oven
to appeal to boys"
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:19:24 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: JRandomFreeper
Dont know about anyone else, but
this kind of stuff is what sets my teeth on edge in regards to the phrase gender neutral nowadays, since the phrase is deliberately associated with same. If that had been left out of the notion of marketing the Easy-Bake Oven to boys, then I doubt I would have had reacted negatively . . .
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:20:08 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
We don’t have to cook. We marry the cook, dishwasher, coffeemaker, Roomba.
BBQ and fishing is what we do best.
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posted on
12/12/2012 7:20:58 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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