Posted on 02/26/2021 8:00:26 AM PST by simpson96
Even Mr. Potato Head finds gender conformity un-apeeling!
The classic spud-shaped plastic toy is getting a new, gender-neutral name — just plain Potato Head — with the toymaker Hasbro scrapping the “Mr.” portion.
The company said Mr. Potato Head, which first hit the shelves nearly 70 years ago, needed a fresh, modern makeover. The toy’s new moniker will begin appearing on boxes next year.
“Culture has evolved,” Kimberly Boyd, Hasbro’s senior vice president of global brands, told Fast Company. “Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand currently exists — with the ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ — is limiting when it comes to both gender identity and family structure.”
Some cheered the “woke” change while others called it half-baked to label a vegetable “non-binary.”
“Mr. Potato Head will always be… a potato. Hasbro can’t take away the genitals of a spud that never had any to begin with. #thiscountryisNUTS,” one observer tweeted.
Others wondered about the fate of Mrs. Potato Head, who launched in 1953 with traditionally feminine accessories, such as hair bows and red high heels.
“What I want to know is are they retiring Mrs. Potato Head?” one Twitter user asked.
There was also no word on Potato Head’s preferred pronoun — or whether the studly spud will keep its signature black mustache.
The move by Hasbro comes after several toymakers have updated their brands to appeal to kids today — including Barbie, who shed her blonde image and got a makeover to include more skin tones and body shapes.
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Stop it, Stop it ,just stop it!!
I can see Barbie morphing into Eleanor Roosevelt.
NEW CHECKER RULES: can’t have kids saying “king me.”......too sexist. /s
This is simply the enemy attacking God’s statement that “He made them male and female”...
Does it include anatomically correct parts. Does it come with scalpel?
<< “Culture has evolved,” Kimberly Boyd, Hasbro’s senior vice president of global brands, told Fast Company. >>
Devolved.
“Are we not spuds? We are Devo.”
Can there be any doubt that we are spiraling further and further into the abyss?
Not hyperbole: This country has completely lost its collective mind. No ability to reason or to think rationally. We are a nation of depraved people.
May God help us because we have gone off the rails and plunging to our destruction.
They couldn't just tuck it in like Bruce Jenner did?
Biden.
For more commentary on the absurdity:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3937695/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3937688/posts
Ridiculouser and ridiculouser.
However, plans have been scrapped for a "Rosie O'Donnell" version of Barbie after it was determined that most kids wouldn't be able to lift it.
Yam? That's an African tuber. Comrade Potatohead is culturally appropriating what is not his to take along with being insensitive yo the plight of yams taken from their homeland over hundreds of years. Yam Lives Matter!3
“ “Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences.”
Mr. Potato Head is for ages two to three. The kids aren’t desiring anything of the sort.
Chess is next................. No more ‘kings’ but ‘queens’ are okay..................
But what about the ‘Potato’ part??? Xe might self-identify as a rutabaga or a carrot! And what about all the Tubers Of Color?
Obviously a potential rapist!
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