Posted on 01/03/2006 4:47:36 PM PST by wagglebee
>>>From and ABC News story
But Mattel, which also manufactures Barbie, said the Barbie incident is much ado about nothing. "This was just an innocent oversight," says Lauren Bruksch, a spokeswoman for Mattel. As a rule of thumb, Bruksch said, the questionnaires at barbie.com always try to have a neutral answer or nonresponse option. For gender, this third option should have been "I don't want to say," rather than "I don't know." The Web site has since been fixed.
"Hmmm sounds like a CWA over-reaction. But then I guess they have to keep the base energized..."
Maybe the article is an over-reaction but think about it... look at the image.
I am four years old and don't know if I am a boy or a girl!?!?
How many 4 year olds qualify for that? .0001%
If so, then this is a push poll to tell 4 year olds that they should wonder if they are a boy, girl or something else.
My 5 year old grandson has absolutely no doubt that he is a boy.. but then, nobody has suggested he is anything other than what God made him, which is apparent from his external plumbing.
The only people that have decent reason to doubt their gender are those born with both or neither organs and they are extremely rare.
What is that...thing, in Ken's ... box? Do I even want to know?
In the world of children's toys, trust no one. A shot over the bow won't hurt in keeping Mattel honest.
lol! I don't think we want to find out.
I don't know about you guys, but I think that's kinda almost funny....
LOL
THe war on Christmas is nearly 2000 years old. Its not going away.
I think it was one of those screw ups from the folks designing the web page.
At worst it was a case of a lawyer sticking his nose in.
Marketing information.
You might (or might not) be shocked at how many companies while promoting their prouducts to kids, try to collect information to market to them better and also direct advertising towards them.
Reminds me of something back in the 1980s, during a (that time) WWF angle, Hulk Hogan was supposedly "injured" (actually filming a movie), the WWF had a campaign where kids could mail him get well cards and he would supposedly write thank you cards back (mass produced), they used this info for a mailing list to solicit for events and wrestling promotional material......and that was then, now it would be a hell of alot more high tech.
Allen Ginsberg, the "great" "poet", was not only a homosexual but a member of NAMBLA.
Will be a-pinging later tonight.
I remember when my GI Joe would come back from Nam' and find my sisters Ken doll's car parked in front of the Malibu Dream house.
GI Joe would beat the crap out of that little snivling wimp in front of Barbie. Then have his way with her.
I think Barbie liked it that way!
I thought so too.
Unless there is none, or a whole lot of loopholes, I learned different.....years and years ago in back when I was in High school
During my MBA classes a few years back, I asked about marketing information and kids........ and was laughed at by the teacher.
Mattel is the company that swindled a small German toymaker out of the Barbie product by literally manufacturing it without license for years, then forcing a cheap settlement on him by providing misinformation on sales volume.
Why support a gang of organized criminals?
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