Sandy Hook Elementary showed that in feminized settings, helpless passivity is the norm

[one...two...tree 2,762]

But I thought kids were supposed to be janitors? Oh wait, I forgot Newt didn't win in November.

Children could form their own school militia. What better way to learn how to handle firearms safely?

[Teddy B 17,252]

Is that you on the right? You were a real looker.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Is that you on the right? You were a real looker.

It's sad when people let themselves go. I mean, with women, at least you can put them down when they hit 35. Or 20 if they got hit with the ugly/fat stick.

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How random.

[scotinmass 588]

Is that you on the right? You were a real looker.

Yeah but he's not aged well!

[Teddy B 17,252]

It's sad when people let themselves go. I mean, with women, at least you can put them down when they hit 35. Or 20 if they got hit with the ugly/fat stick.

As long as you look good cooking Christmas dinner in black lace and 8 inch pumps, we're good. Otherwise, I'm sorry, but it's time to move on. It is a mans world yanno.

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If a woman in her 30s is no longer attractive but can cook then she's worth keeping around for the food. Good food is worth its weight in gold.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

The feminization of this nation as a whole has destroyed it for the past 40 years or so.

We stopped teaching boys to be boys and girls to be girls a long time ago on mass scale. Now it's up to few brave parents who aren't afraid of being ridiculed to do it.

Ever notice how none of these shooters are masculine at all? They're somewhat pansies who's idea of being a 'male' is playing Call of Duty? There's your problem with society. Boys treated as girls (or neutral) who's only idea of males is the military and glorified killing of others without consequence.

Welcome to Liberal America!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/18/gender-neutral-hasbro-easy-bake-oven-announced-petition_n_2323210.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

'Gender Neutral' Hasbro Easy Bake Oven Announced After 13-Year-Old's Petition Against 'Sexist' Packaging

Posted: 18/12/2012 17:03 GMT | Updated: 18/12/2012 17:07 GMT

A 13-year-old girl has brought a toy giant to its knees in a battle encompassing play ovens, sexism and kiddies' Christmas lists.

McKenna Pope took on Hasbro over the packaging of its pink and purple Easy Bake Ovens - which feature female children delightedly baking cakes.

Pope's anti-gender stereotyping crusade was on behalf of her four-year-old brother Gavin, a budding cook who wants an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas, but wisely queried: "Why they only put girls in the commercial?"

McKenna began a petition on Change.org - which now numbers more than 44,000 signatures - and in an accompanying pitch made her case:

However, we soon found it quite appalling that boys are not featured in packaging or promotional materials for Easy Bake Ovens -- this toy my brother's always dreamed about. And the oven comes in gender-specific hues: purple and pink.

I feel that this sends a clear message: women cook, men work.

I have always been adamantly against anything that promotes specific roles in society for men and women, and having grown up with toys produced by the Hasbro corporation, it truly saddens me that such a successful business would resort to conforming to society's views on what boys do and what girls do.

I want my brother to know that it's not "wrong" for him to want to be a chef, that it's okay to go against what society believes to be appropriate. There are, as a matter of fact, a multitude of very talented and successful male culinary geniuses, i.e. Emeril, Gordon Ramsey, etc. Unfortunately, Hasbro has made going against the societal norm that girls are the ones in the kitchen even more difficult.

Hasbro has now met with McKenna and and says its will soon reveal a gender-neutral Easy Bake Oven.

In an accompanying video to her pitch, McKenna added: "We continue to force this stereotype that men don't cook, they work. Please, sign this petition and join me in my fight to create gender equality in our products and in our youth."

McKenna peppered her fight with appearances on talk show and news channels, and even had celebrity chefs Bobby Flay and Manuel Trevino in her corner. And it's all paid off.

According to AP McKenna and her family have met with Hasbro executives who revealed a prototype of their newest model, which is black, silver and blue (which incidentally they say they've been working on for 18 months.)

In a statement released to the New York Daily News, the company said it invited McKenna and her family to view the new oven: "given the widespread interest" in her story.

It added: "Consumers can look forward to it becoming available in fall of 2013."

McKenna is not the first youngster to point out the gender stereotyping many toy manufacturers indulge in.

Last year a video of five-year-old Riley Barry delivering an impassioned speech on the matter went viral.

Standing against a backdrop of pink baby dolls, Riley Barry says it isn’t fair “for all the girls to buy princesses and all the boys to buy superheroes.”

Slapping her forehead for emphasis, the erudite toddler points out: “Girls want superheroes and the boys want superheroes.”

When asked why she thinks toys at marketed like that, Riley points at the doll display and says: “Because the companies who make these try to trick the girls into buying the pink stuff instead of stuff that boys want to buy, right?”

Her tirade continues: “Well then, why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff and all the boys have to buy different colour stuff?”

The man behind the camera concedes: “It’s a good question Riley.”

Edited December 19, 2012 by Bad_Daddy

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It's true, who doesn't want a superhero on their side?

[Teddy B 17,252]

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If a woman in her 30s is no longer attractive but can cook then she's worth keeping around for the food. Good food is worth its weight in gold.

I knew it, the feminazi's got to you. You'll need to turn in your man card immediately.

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I knew it, the feminazi's got to you. You'll need to turn in your man card immediately.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

[quote name=' timestamp='1355948841' post='5880534]

If a woman in her 30s is no longer attractive but can cook then she's worth keeping around for the food. Good food is worth its weight in gold.

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No youtube at work but I did read the lyrics on that page and it's true!

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

Men who are *seriously* bitching about this need to move to Denmark for some perspective. You'll think America is a paradise of traditional gender roles afterwards.

I'm neither one way or another on this, but some of these men who whine about femnazis have no idea what equality really looks like.

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Men who are *seriously* bitching about this need to move to Denmark for some perspective. You'll think America is a paradise of traditional gender roles afterwards.

I'm neither one way or another on this, but some of these men who whine about femnazis have no idea what equality really looks like.

I hear male children have their penises removed at birth in Denmark. For equality purposes.