Adios Mr. and Mrs. Potato Heads

Gilligan

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vraiblonde

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RoseRed said:
It's phucking insane!
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I always thought Mrs. Potato Head was trans. "She" doesn't really come across as feminine - looks like Mr. Potato Head with lipstick and heels. So isn't it anti-trans to try and make "her" gender neutral?
 
Toxick

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RoseRed said:
A mister no more: Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral
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I somehow missed where the sumbitch was NOT gender neutral to begin with.

Other than actually HAVING a Mr & Mrs Potato Head as a child, I don't actually remember playing with them specifically. Just some vague impression of changing faces and hats and arms and legs around. Anyway - I'm all but certain that both Mr AND Mrs Potato Head had interchangeable body parts. So you could literally have any gender configuration between the toys. Two men, Two women, One man, one woman, or androgynes.

They lacked any form of genitalia so there was no gender/trans/wtfever phobias there.
 
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We had them before the plastic body version, just arms, legs, mouth, hat, etc... You actually stuck them into a real potato. Got pretty gross after a few days and my mom hated that we kept stealing potatoes.
 
RoseRed

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vraiblonde said:
I always thought Mrs. Potato Head was trans. "She" doesn't really come across as feminine - looks like Mr. Potato Head with lipstick and heels. So isn't it anti-trans to try and make "her" gender neutral?
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I wish I didn't look like a potato.
 
glhs837

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You know, adding a Gender Wonderland edition would be fine. And thats the thing for most of us. We don't mind if you want to have whatever, but you don't need to take away.
 
vraiblonde

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Hasbro is just virtue signaling - "See us being woke? Buy our crappy plastic made in China toys!" My grandson had a Potato Head set when he was a tot (ha) and he had no regard for gender or norms of any kind (including standard body part locations) when decorating the potato. Shoe in the ear? Lips for an arm? Anything could happen.

I get tired of adults who market to children, yet have no memory whatsoever of what it was like to be a kid.
 
Toxick

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vraiblonde said:
I get tired of adults who market to children, yet have no memory whatsoever of what it was like to be a kid.
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Although - I'm pretty sure they are more marketing to the parents than the kids.

"Look at how woke we are. Help indoctrinate your little turd with US!"
 
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