Trolling Target

[AnnaMarie]

This guy is my hero. Target should offer him a job.

Man Trolls Target's Facebook Page and Shuts down Haters - IAmNotTheBabysitterIAmNotTheBabysitter

This is the best advertising ever and it was free.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Spoiler: Off topic, but made me laugh...

And, I hope everybody was okay...

 

[stacy270]

This guy is my hero. Target should offer him a job.

Man Trolls Target's Facebook Page and Shuts down Haters - IAmNotTheBabysitterIAmNotTheBabysitter

This is the best advertising ever and it was free.

Drat! I just had to go look at this and got reading some of the comments.Some made me laugh and some just made my jaw drop.The answer person is awesome though

 

[GNTLGNT]

...that Dude is the right measure of smart-ass....I like him...

 

[AnnaMarie]

I don't remember the last time I saw a store sign that distinguishes toys as boy or girl. Clothing, yes, but not toys.

And someone else said Target was the only big store still doing this in the US. Apparently stores like Walmart already stopped.

 

[TheRedQueen]

I must be behind the times...what is going on?

 

[GNTLGNT]

I must be behind the times...what is going on?

Target Ditches Gender Labels on Toys, Home and Entertainment - NBC News

 

[Out of Order]

I must be behind the times...what is going on?

I have no idea, but I'm glad this thread isn't about me....

 

[80sFan]

What's the big deal? My daughter was obsessed with dinosaur toys and my son always wanted the housekeeping toys (at one time he had 3 different toys vacuums).

 

[Out of Order]

What's the big deal? My daughter was obsessed with dinosaur toys and my son always wanted the housekeeping toys (at one time he had 3 different toys vacuums).

Did the toy vac have the little colored balls that went "pop" when you pushed it around?

 

[GNTLGNT]

Did the toy vac have the little colored balls that went "pop" when you pushed it around?

...I had one like this...it rocked!....

...I would have kept the damn thing, but I can't bend over far enough now to push it....

 

[Lepplady]

I think it's ridiculous that people have their (gender neutral) knickers in a knot because a store refuses to pigeonhole children into preconceived gender stereotypes. Good for them.

 

[Out of Order]

...I had one like this...it rocked!....

...I would have kept the damn thing, but I can't bend over far enough now to push it....

Me too and I can't either......

 

[GNTLGNT]

Me too and I can't either......

....if it wouldn't be so uncomfortable to be damn near perpendicular-I'd almost costume myself and push one around my downtown, with a hidden boombox blaring this the whole time:

 

[Sigmund]

Hi AnnaMarie.

Thanks for posting this. Loved it. I saw a toy aisle that read

Building sets
Girls Building sets

That was all kinds of goofy. GIRLS building sets? What kind of old school, asinine thinking is that?

(Loved the comments re; screenshot to corp and the man who reported the comments to his local news.)

Have a great weekend.

 

[TheRedQueen]

I'm sorry, I really must be behind the times. What does gender neutral even mean? When your kid comes up and asks you, "Am I a boy or a girl?" are you supposed to say, "I don't know honey, what do you want to be?"


I feel like such a caveman sometimes...oh, excuse me, I meant caveperson.

 

[Moderator]

I'm sorry, I really must be behind the times. What does gender neutral even mean? When your kid comes up and asks you, "Am I a boy or a girl?" are you supposed to say, "I don't know honey, what do you want to be?"


I feel like such a caveman sometimes...oh, excuse me, I meant caveperson.

When I went to high school girls could only take Home Ec, they could not take Shop--only boys could--and vice versa. These days either gender can take the class they would like rather than having it limited to one gender or the other so it would now be considered gender neutral. With toys it would be that dolls would not be considered to be only for girls or trucks only for boys. The intent is to stop putting limitations on what people can do simply because of their gender.

 

[TheRedQueen]

When I went to high school girls could only take Home Ec, they could not take Shop--only boys could--and vice versa. These days either gender can take the class they would like rather than having it limited to one gender or the other so it would now be considered gender neutral. With toys it would be that dolls would not be considered to be only for girls or trucks only for boys. The intent is to stop putting limitations on what people can do simply because of their gender.

Oooooh. Well that makes more sense than how it sounded. Things are becoming so ridiculously PC that I've gotten a wee bit paranoid.

 

[80sFan]

No, guys, my boy was serious about his housekeeping duties... he had a set that resembled this one (in pic) and 2 battery-powered uprights.
Now he just uses the real vacuum.

 

[AnnaMarie]

When your kid comes up and asks you, "Am I a boy or a girl?" are you supposed to say, "I don't know honey, what do you want to be?"

When your child asks you, answer; you are a boy, (or you are a girl, dependent on whether they were born with an innie or an outie).

But do not say, you are a boy so you cannot play with those pink blocks. Or, you are a girl, so must play with only pink blocks.

~~~~

And if in the future your son comes to you and says "I'm a girl" just accept that as a fact and love her.