Monday - November 04, 2013

doing away with gender bias toys and ban the words him and her. it confuses kids.

I read something upsetting in the paper perhaps it was yesterday.
Something I just could not get my head around because it seems, to me anyway, so damn nonsensical.  And the thing of it is, all this pc crap we’ve been slaves to is promoted by small groups but very vocal and troublesome ones.

Going back many years ago, (the 60s?) it was decided that the term Miss was anti woman and derogatory and demeaning, so on and so forth. Decided by who exactly?  A handful of femanazis who changed Miss to Mz, originally and finally to Ms. and pronounced as mizz. And everyone simply caved in and bought into it because I suppose it wasn’t something large enuff to make a stink about and far easier to give in and move on.

Well, little by little by little, a little later on, other things began to change too.  Here in Britain coloured to describe someone who was, well … coloured, became an offensive word.  Another group decided that gay was a nice word to describe their own particular lifestyle and so now, how many of you will describe a nice day in the country or at a beach as, having a gay time?  And always the changes are not made by a majority of the population.  So here we are today with something else a minority group is changing.  I thought is was recent as in this year.  Guess I’ve been asleep because in November of 2012 in Sweden …..

Have a gender neutral holiday! Swedish toy company bans photos of girls holding dolls from its catalogue pages

“For several years, we have found that the gender debate has grown so strong in the Swedish market that we ... have had to adjust,” Jan Nyberg, director of sales at Top Toy, franchise-holder toy chain Toys R Us, told the TT news agency Friday

Sweden’s largest toy chain said Friday that its toys are “gender neutral” after picturing boys holding baby dolls and banishing girls from the dolls pages of its Christmas catalogue.

“For several years, we have found that the gender debate has grown so strong in the Swedish market that we ... have had to adjust,” Jan Nyberg, director of sales at Top Toy, franchise-holder for US toy chain Toys R Us, told the TT news agency Friday.

The country’s advertising watchdog reprimanded the company for gender discrimination three years ago following complaints over outdated gender roles in the 2008 Christmas catalogue, which featured boys dressed as superheroes and girls playing princess.

sweden 2012

There’s more but I know you get the picture.

So I happen to be reading the paper over breakfast when I ran across this.

And I wish the heck they would stop using the word “pressurised” as you see here, when the term pressured in this case sounds better and besides, isn’t pressurised somewhat different from pressured?
And please since when has a normal kid from a non pc family ever felt any pressure when looking at toys?  Did any of you guys ever feel any pressure to choose a fire engine or a tank instead of your sister’s doll and tea set?

Debenhams drops ‘sexist’ toy labels: Parent’s don’t want children to feel pressurised into picking gender-specific options

By SARAH HARRIS

The High Street chain began removing ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ signs this week following a ‘sustained’ campaign from a parent-led action group.
Debenhams told the group on Twitter: ‘We would like to assure you that changes have been made to the way we categorise toys in our stores.
‘These changes will take place across all stores in the next few weeks.’ A spokeswoman said this meant the removal of all ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ headers in toy departments across the UK and Ireland. It is also currently reviewing its website.

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You really should read the whole article above to get a taste of just how far things have gone.

You’ll notice the paper refers to the store, Boots, as Chemist.  Boots is a very large Pharmacy chain here.  Generally, pharmacists are called chemists. It’s only in recent times and I suppose American influence, that many are starting to use American terms.

Boots removes store signs labelling girls’ and boys’ toys but says they are ‘dismayed’ after customers complain of sexism

By HARRIET ARKELL

The high street chemist admitted it had got its signage wrong after scores of shoppers complained about the separate signs for boys’ and girls’ toys.
· Science Museum experiment kits ‘for boys’ and tea-sets ‘for girls’ in Boots
· Chemist apologises for gender stereotyping and promises to remove signs

Chemist chain Boots is to remove in-store signs advertising science toys for boys after complaints from customers over gender stereotyping on Twitter and Facebook.

Shoppers complained about the high street chain suggesting toys from the Science Museum were for boys.
Yesterday the high street pharmacist said it was wrong to have labelled the toys according to gender, in a statement posted on its Facebook page.

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I wonder just how many ppl bitched about it. One? 100? 10?  They don’t say but it’s a sure bet it doesn’t take a lot.
The squeaky wheel and all that.

These are very major retailers, caving in to lefty loudmouths.  Oh happy day now that little boys get to play with dolls. Hey, why should girls have all the fun?

These people are telling us that gender specific toys and even words will and in fact do, they claim, confuse children as to who and what they are.
Huh?

This island that once led the world and built an empire and ruled the waves did it with people who grew up confused as kids?
The guys at the Alamo weren’t sure who they were?
This whole damn thing is out of hand.
Can’t wait to see what the next demand will be.  You must know there will be one. Don’t you? 

From Sweden again …. Two years ago in 2011.
The campaign isn’t new. It’s been going on for awhile.

You’re all equal here: Swedish school bans ‘him’ and ‘her’ in bid to stop children falling into gender stereotypes

By Daily Mail Reporter

A pre-school in Sweden has decided to stop calling children ‘him’ or ‘her’ in a bid to avoid gender stereotypes.
The Egalia preschool, in the Sodermalm district of Stockholm, has made the decision as part of the country efforts to engineer equality between the sexes from childhood.
The option to implement the rules is underpinned by a theory that society gives boys an unfair edge.

‘Society expects girls to be girlie, nice and pretty and boys to be manly, rough and outgoing,’ says Jenny Johnsson, a 31-year-old teacher.

A BAN ON WORDS IN SWEDEN

Hey … can’t have boys that are going to grow up … gasp …. “manly”.

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