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'This toy is sexist': French feminists plant warnings in children's Christmas presents
2014-12-26
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Feminists in La Belle France say they have secretly inserted tracts inside children's toys from Barbie dolls to plastic guns issuing a warning that "this toy is sexist".
And feminism, upper or lower case, has turned into something the dog barfedd up. Go way. And real women, please raise your daughters to be ladies and your sons to be gentlemen. It will avoid lots of mental trauma later in life.
Hundreds of French girls and boys will open Christmas presents at the foot of the tree to find an unexpected accompanying note resembling those found in Chinese "fortune cookies".
Vandalism in the name of a cause is perfectly acceptable unless you're a lady or a gent. Then you don't deface other people's property nor attack their livelihood.
Except in this case, the message will neither provide instructions nor predict the future. It will read: "Warning, this toy is sexist:"
And probably racist, too. And homophobic. And you believe in the concept of gender.
The operation was launched by feminist group FierEs, which said that it had inserted "around 500" such tracts into a range of toys in a dozen shops in Gay Paree.
That's why they have to wrap toys in impenetrable plastic nowadays. I can still remember walking past bins of toys with no wrapping on them. They're not there anymore because people who weren't raised right stole them or defaced them.
500 'warnings'? I could do that instead of the physician's back nine. How many members does FierES have, two?
"We targeted games that are emblematic of boy-girl stererotypes," said Delphine Asian, legal representative for the feminist group, who added: "We have caused no damage or ripped any plastic. We simply slipped the message in boxes, or in books."
They've merely dribbled a bit of poison into little kids minds.

Post feminist kids are gonna regard that kind of people in the same light we regard other proselytizers today. They're gonna smile politely, feel imposed upon, and get rid of them as soon as possible.
Posted by:Fred

#6  "Women make both the manners and the morals of a people. Neither rises higher than the gauge which women set in a community.... Where a woman has bad manners, it always has in it an element of vulgarity which is more painful than it could be in a man. The result will be a society hopelessly vulgarized...with no end but to sink in an ever deeper abyss of vulgarity."
~ Thomas Nelson Page, 1911.
Posted by: Threreling Spawn of the Slytherins3704   2014-12-26 13:04  

#5  It'll work out like all other dirty words and taboo topics - the kids will crave it.
Posted by: Iblis   2014-12-26 12:59  

#4  "Remember this: The strongest sign of the decay of a nation is the feminization of men and the masculinization of women. It is notable that in Communist nations women are exhorted, and compelled, to do what has traditionally been men's work. American women, some of them, feel triumphant that they have broken down the ‘barricades’ between the work of the sexes. I hope they will still feel triumphant when some commissar forces a shovel or an axe into their soft hands and compels them to pound and cut forests and dig ditches. I hope they will be ‘happy’ when a husband deserts them and they must support their children and themselves alone. (After all, if a woman must be ‘free’ she shouldn’t object to men being free too, should she?) I hope they will feel 'fulfilled' when they are given no more courtesies due to their sex and no kindnesses, but are kicked aside on the subways buses by men, and jostled out of the way by men on busy sidewalks and elevators…. I hope, when they look in their mirrors, that they will be pleased to see exhausted, embittered faces, and that they will be consoled by their paychecks."
~ Taylor Caldwell in "They’re Spoiling Eve's Great Con Game," American Opinion, September 1970, page 8.
Posted by: Threreling Spawn of the Slytherins3704   2014-12-26 12:59  

#3  Ima give out Ron Karenga Kwanzaa dolls - they come with electrical cords and soldering irons accessories
Posted by: Frank G   2014-12-26 11:57  

#2  Hey, Delphine, get in the kitchen and make me some bacon, or I will bitch slap your ass into the fuckin Stone Age.
Posted by: tu3031   2014-12-26 11:55  

#1  Children will associate the word sexism with fun!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-12-26 11:22  

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