TOTALLY GEEKED!

I hear they're also ditching gender based bedding.

"Boys and girls are physically and emotionally designed to carry out specific roles in society, and when the lines are blurred between the two, chaos ensues and things fall apart.

There’s nothing wrong with a boy’s masculinity being encouraged through playing with toy guns, superheroes, and tools, while girl’s femininity is explored through playing with Barbie dolls"

Wait...what??
Girls shouldn't know how to use tools or drive trucks? Oh, right. We should only play with dolls to encourage breeding, EZ Bake ovens to encourage meal preparation, and little toy vacuum cleaners to encourage housework. Otherwise, CHAOS WILL ENSUE!!

Lol. They should just have burlap sacks with toys in a certain price range. What ya get is what ya get. Play with it kid.

And thus, my Target shopping comes to an end. They will suffer because of this....

I hardly ever go to Target due to the distance. The past few times I've been there I've been disappointed with their selection.

We get our meds filled there. They're a little more pricey than Wal-Mart but you get what you pay for. My friend who is having the baby and I were talking. We're both really disappointed in the baby stuff. They only carry organic and all that other non everything shampoo and lotion. They carry Johnson's but that's the only other brand that is name brand. They never have a big selection of newborn stuff. Wal-Mart has the onsies for $2 and the mix and match pants for $2. We have a super center now and they have a little more but we're not that impressed. Their pharmacy is really great though. I wonder if they will make it gender neutral?

I went to Belk and they had Carter's baby sets for $3.99 clearance, plus an extra 30% off. I scooped them all up. The pregnancy refuge center will love them!

We don't have a target. I think I've been to one twice.

I wasn't impressed.

And this getting ridiculous. Differences were celebrated at one time. Now it's looked at as a bad thing.

And so they bowed down to political pressure. And when their sales plummet, they will change or go out of business. Stupid. Anyway, the Targets and Kohls of this world have run their course, they are due to go under if history of these store types are on track.

Lol. They should just have burlap sacks with toys in a certain price range. What ya get is what ya get. Play with it kid.
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And that's the stupidest thing ever.

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Oh good grief. What's next? Being prohibited from putting male or female on the child's birth certificate? Sheesh.
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One day, in the not so distant future, there will be a third option on Birth Certificates. Along with "Male" and "Female" there will be "TBDL" (To Be Decided Later")

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Of course. 

Sweet mother of god, the overreaction in this article and on this board. It's crap like this that makes the right look crazy cakes.

All they did was stop labeling and/or separating toys by gender aisles. Instead of having the Legos in two aisles, they put them all in ONE aisle, together. They still have the girly Lego sets to pick, you just don't have to go down two aisles if you have two kids to shop for.

And I seriously doubt your toddler boy is going to become a faggot because he had to buy his GI Joe action figure in the same aisle as the babies.

Personally, I think that stores have been bowing to the conservative political pressures BY keeping toys segregated, vs displaying them by type/genre.

And finally, YES there ARE ingrained physiological differences between men and women. The proble is, many of these scientifically proven differences actually point women into the path of current, male dominated activities and careers. Women make better fighter pilots, hell they make better pilots. But the world markets PLANES as a boy toy. Any and all military toys are marketed as boy toys really. So how can we get more women into a job where she is built to excel in if we don't let her play with toys that some MAN hundreds of years ago Decided was a boy toy?

And I am not sure why taking the aisle titles away and allowing a boy see and gasp want to play with a kids kitchen will somehow NOT celebrate his masculinity. Doesn't he need to be able to cook for himself at some point in his life? Or is this celebrating the physiological strengths ONLY for the menfolk, since a female can't stay at home and cook for her widdle man and use her strengths as a pilot.

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I really don't give a rat's ass about what toys my boys play with, as long as they are happy and occupied. But this label removal will make shopping more difficult. I already know my boys would freak out if I brought home a Barbie doll, and now I have to weed through Barbies and American Girl crap to find the superhero stuff.

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Yes, because it is so hard to differentiate the Avenger boxes from the Barbie Boxes...and no one is saying that you will have to buy the barbie when you do go down that aisle.  

Exactly. I know who I am shopping for. When I want to buy an Avengers toy for my daughters - I know where to go look for them. Now, it will be more difficult to find if they are mixing Avengers toys in with everything else. And when I want to shop for Barbie and princesses - I LIKE that they are all together and easy to find. I LIKE that when I'm shopping for a girly toy - I can see them all in the same section - and when I want a traditionally boy toy - I can find those, too. That doesn't mean I pigeon hole my kids - but it means they are easier to FIND.

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Sweet mother of god, the overreaction in this article and on this board. It's crap like this that makes the right look crazy cakes.

All they did was stop labeling and/or separating toys by gender aisles. Instead of having the Legos in two aisles, they put them all in ONE aisle, together. They still have the girly Lego sets to pick, you just don't have to go down two aisles if you have two kids to shop for.

And I seriously doubt your toddler boy is going to become a faggot because he had to buy his GI Joe action figure in the same aisle as the babies.

Personally, I think that stores have been bowing to the conservative political pressures BY keeping toys segregated, vs displaying them by type/genre.

And finally, YES there ARE ingrained physiological differences between men and women. The proble is, many of these scientifically proven differences actually point women into the path of current, male dominated activities and careers. Women make better fighter pilots, hell they make better pilots. But the world markets PLANES as a boy toy. Any and all military toys are marketed as boy toys really. So how can we get more women into a job where she is built to excel in if we don't let her play with toys that some MAN hundreds of years ago Decided was a boy toy?

And I am not sure why taking the aisle titles away and allowing a boy see and gasp want to play with a kids kitchen will somehow NOT celebrate his masculinity. Doesn't he need to be able to cook for himself at some point in his life? Or is this celebrating the physiological strengths ONLY for the menfolk, since a female can't stay at home and cook for her widdle man and use her strengths as a pilot.

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 Seriously?  When was the last time you had to shop for toys.  They are separated by type and genre as well as by the demographic that is MOST interested.  That is how marketing is most successful, by paying attention to the consumer demographic and providing a quick an easy organization of stock for a consumer to easily find what they want.  Otherwise it just creates frustration for the consumer.  

Between 5 and 10, my boys flat refused to walk down the aisle with what they called "girl" toys.

They knew the difference.

One year for Christmas, mom got Jesse a generic action figure. No real anything on the box. He was 5. He ripped the paper off and immediately announced he opened the wrong gift and tossed it to his sister.

It's completely ok to have girly girls and manly boys.

Im sure you would....

Ohfour wrote:

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Im sure you would....

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Meh. He'll either grow out of it, or he's gay. I'm fine with either one. 

weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Im sure you would....

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Meh. He'll either grow out of it, or he's gay. I'm fine with either one. 

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And yet, you would let him be made fun of incessantly.  Because that would definitely happen.  That doesn't seem like good parenting to me... 

weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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Im sure you would....

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Meh. He'll either grow out of it, or he's gay. I'm fine with either one. 

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And yet, you would let him be made fun of incessantly.  Because that would definitely happen.  That doesn't seem like good parenting to me... 

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Who would make fun of him? His gay friends? 

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 School bullies.

Other boys and girls alike would make fun of him. If you don't believe us, check with those in the transgender or gay community. They drone on and on about how they were picked on growing up. Some to the point of suicide. Why would any parent want their child to go through that?

Targets response is one of a company trying to do what is favourable for their own bottom line. I see no politics in this decision.

I don't see why boys and girls toys have to be gender specific. My daughter loved lego yet this would have been in the "boys" section?

Most stores have a baby section that is not gender specific, why not just have a childrens clothing section? Much ado about ...nothing.

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Look, if he wore pink and he was bullied about it, he'd stop. On the other hand, if he was gay, there would absolutely nothing I could do about it. You sound like one of those fathers on What Would You Do, who has the screaming heebie-jeebies because the son wants to wear pink nail polish.
It's not a hill I want to die on.
In any case, I raised a compassionate, kind young man who is in a stable relationship and has his own business, so I'm pretty sure I did something right.

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Yeah, he'd stop, but the damage would have been done.  Ever watched the show I Am Jazz?  She's an outcast and doesn't understand why boys don't want to go out with her.  Her parents are 100% responsible for her distress...