Hasbro makes Mr. Potato Head gender neutral

[NorvilleBarnes 4,442]

"Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year. Hasbro said Mr. Potato Head, which has been around for about 70 years, needed a modern makeover."

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[KarmaPolice 18,848]

It's about time! 

[knowledge dropper 6,864]

1 minute ago, NorvilleBarnes said:

"Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year. Hasbro said Mr. Potato Head, which has been around for about 70 years, needed a modern makeover."

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I think you now refer to what was formally both characters as they/them.  

[Parrothead 3,551]

other than the moustache/lips and eyebrows, how did we tell Mr and Mrs Potatohead apart?  was there an unrated version that had 'additional pieces'??

[jm192 2,127]

Don't they sell a Mrs. Potato head?  Seems like they cover their bases.

Can we not have a Mr. and Mrs. in the world anymore?  

[Manster 822]

I would say I'm surprised, but nothing is surprising anymore.  It seems pretty clear to me that these moves are being made ahead of being "cancelled". 

[fatguyinalittlecoat 12,178]

Thank you for bringing this important matter to our attention.

[Ruffrodys05 1,752]

Whew!.....I was starting to get worried

[The General 25,204]

I would love some hashbrowns.

[jobarules 838]

45 minutes ago, jm192 said:

Don't they sell a Mrs. Potato head?  Seems like they cover their bases.

Can we not have a Mr. and Mrs. in the world anymore?  

According to some people there are more than two genders now. This whole thing is beyond ridiculous now.

[Kal El 3,995]

On the list of “Things that should cause outrage,” this is fairly low. The pieces are interchangeable anyway, plus it’s a toy.

[Manster 822]

3 minutes ago, Kal El said:

On the list of “Things that should cause outrage,” this is fairly low. The pieces are interchangeable anyway, plus it’s a toy.

Death by a thousand paper cuts seems appropriate

[Sea Duck 1,510]

I was going to make a joke about this story appearing on the next edition of "Hannity", but upon further reflection......it seems more like a Tucker Carlson-type of topic.

[Kal El 3,995]

2 minutes ago, Manster said:

Death by a thousand paper cuts seems appropriate

This isn’t a death. It’s not even an injury. At best it’s a mild inconvenience, like somebody moving the wrench I swore I just had right over there, but it’s 4 inches to the back of the bench.

[joffer 12,499]

a color palette change is in order too.

[rockaction 27,163]

1 minute ago, Kal El said:

This isn’t a death. It’s not even an injury. At best it’s a mild inconvenience, like somebody moving the wrench I swore I just had right over there, but it’s 4 inches to the back of the bench.

No, you're wrong. It's about the attempt to eliminate sex, and therefore, sex differences from the public sphere.

It's so cute when they're old enough to parrot things and not realize the revolution is on! Honey, isn't he cute?! Oh, that's adorable.

MMmmmmmbbbbbttttpppppfffff in his belly. Mmmmmmmmbbbbtppppfffff in his belly.

[fatguyinalittlecoat 12,178]

1 minute ago, rockaction said:

No, you're wrong. It's about the attempt to eliminate sex, and therefore, sex differences from the public sphere.

It's so cute when they're old enough to parrot things and not realize the revolution is on! Honey, isn't he cute?! Oh, that's adorable.

MMmmmmmbbbbbttttpppppfffff in his belly. Mmmmmmmmbbbbtppppfffff in his belly.

"First they came for the potatoes, and I said nothing." 

[whoknew 9,081]

Its dumb but I just don't understand why anyone would care about this.

I reckon the truth is - nobody does care.

Edited February 25 by whoknew

[Parrothead 3,551]

what if the potato identifies as an onion?

[NorvilleBarnes 4,442]

12 minutes ago, whoknew said:

Its dumb but I just don't understand why anyone would care about this.

I care

[Leroy Hoard 14,360]

Wait until Adult Film Star Potato Head comes out. All kinds of extra bolt on parts,  including an optional carrot.

[joffer 12,499]

16 minutes ago, whoknew said:

Its dumb but I just don't understand why anyone would care about this.

I reckon the truth is - nobody does care.

its good marketing shtick.  trying to drive demand for the current ones.

[Rich Conway 3,968]

2 minutes ago, joffer said:

its good marketing shtick.  trying to drive demand for the current ones.

Not to mention...

1. Demographics of new purchases skew younger (parents with young children), which tend to be more liberal.

2. Free publicity!

[Manster 822]

Is it just me or is this a woke compliant move that will basically make potato head go away?  I mean I guess kids were still getting Mr/Mrs potato heads.......whos gonna get em now?  I mean I spose a handful of people maybe....  Is Hasbro sacrifing a once iconic toy past it's prime to the PC/cancel/woke gods so they can move on in relative compliance?.....well played Hasbro

[NorvilleBarnes 4,442]

From Hasbro:

Hold that Tot – your main spud, MR. POTATO HEAD isn’t going anywhere! While it was announced today that the POTATO HEAD brand name & logo are dropping the ‘MR.’ I yam proud to confirm that MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD aren’t going anywhere and will remain MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD

LINK

[IvanKaramazov 23,186]

1 minute ago, NorvilleBarnes said:

From Hasbro:

Hold that Tot – your main spud, MR. POTATO HEAD isn’t going anywhere! While it was announced today that the POTATO HEAD brand name & logo are dropping the ‘MR.’ I yam proud to confirm that MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD aren’t going anywhere and will remain MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD

LINK

Hasbro is now transphobic and must be cancelled.

[NorvilleBarnes 4,442]

Hassibling

[The General 25,204]

49 minutes ago, Sea Duck said:

I was going to make a joke about this story appearing on the next edition of "Hannity", but upon further reflection......it seems more like a Tucker Carlson-type of topic.

Hannity likes the conspiracy stuff more and this needs to be directly tied to Biden or Hillary. 

[Mookie 2,580]

I suppose this means the end of Mr. Potato Head's side piece, Curly Fries with Special Sauce.

[Apple Jack 5,036]

57 minutes ago, Manster said:

Death by a thousand paper cuts seems appropriate

Death, huh?

[glvsav37 3,905]

Are they changing the company name to HasPerson?*

 

 

^{*stolen from Twitter}

[tonydead 8,298]

2 hours ago, knowledge dropper said:

I think you now refer to what was formally both characters as they/them.  

No shtick - I've started to see some of this listed in some of our Client's email signatures: "Pronouns: He, Him, His"  I guess we need to know how to refer to them if they ever resurface from their covid hibernation.  

[ekbeats 489]

http://img.memecdn.com/Mr-Potato-Head-forgot-his_o_63607.jpg

[ekbeats 489]

Poor bastard.  I knew he was finished when I saw this appear on the internet.  https://m.imgur.com/zPWDPwe

[Kal El 3,995]

1 hour ago, rockaction said:

No, you're wrong. It's about the attempt to eliminate sex, and therefore, sex differences from the public sphere.

It's so cute when they're old enough to parrot things and not realize the revolution is on! Honey, isn't he cute?! Oh, that's adorable.

MMmmmmmbbbbbttttpppppfffff in his belly. Mmmmmmmmbbbbtppppfffff in his belly.

Even with their best efforts, they will be unable to actually accomplish that. There are just too many differences, and those differences make us unique. Trying to de-gender a potato isn’t going to bring about a huge change.

[parasaurolophus 7,725]

2 hours ago, Sea Duck said:

I was going to make a joke about this story appearing on the next edition of "Hannity", but upon further reflection......it seems more like a Tucker Carlson-type of topic.

Watch list updated

[Manster 822]

1 hour ago, Apple Jack said:

Death, huh?

Maybe a bad analogy, I dunno.....point being all these lil things add up to a big picture

[Leroy Hoard 14,360]

51 minutes ago, Kal El said:

Trying to de-gender a potato isn’t going to bring about a huge change.

Easy for you to say.  You're not a potato.

[Thunderlips 5,500]

FIrst they came for Aunt Jemima and I did nothing........

[Kal El 3,995]

22 minutes ago, Leroy Hoard said:

Easy for you to say.  You're not a potato.

But what about the adage, “you are what you eat?”

[The General 25,204]

33 minutes ago, Thunderlips said:

FIrst they came for Aunt Jemima and I did nothing........

SNL covered this

[Summer Wheat 958]

57 minutes ago, Thunderlips said:

FIrst they came for Aunt Jemima and I did nothing........

They??

[The Z Machine 5,535]

4 hours ago, jobarules said:

According to some people there are more than two genders now. This whole thing is beyond ridiculous now.

Been that way for a long time in other cultures.  See Hijra in India.

[djmich 1,413]

I would have been impressed if they said they were renaming him to Chief Potato Head

[tommyGunZ 4,762]

5 hours ago, fatguyinalittlecoat said:

"First they came for the potatoes, and I said nothing." 

Fortunately we have folks like rock on the front lines.  

[rockaction 27,163]

1 hour ago, tommyGunZ said:

Fortunately we have folks like rock on the front lines.  

I'm nowhere near them. I simply said you're wrong if you don't think this isn't part of the activist revolution. That your average moderate like Kal El reacts by denying their censorious intent is what they want. They want the middle unaware of what is happening at every level. Last time with the New Left it was education, mass media, religion, and an Overton window shift in politics. The New New Left has been going since '89 and is just making inroads to our culture, a culture of ossified rot and consumerism that has trouble defending itself on principles previously abandoned.

Restate the principles and be unafraid. There are biological sexes, and there is a difference in behaviors between those that inhabit each earthly dominion. It is not necessarily deterministic, but the overwhelming evidence told us and tells us that these differences exist. If we must speak of everything, then admit to those that are intersexed that they are human, too, and will be treated with dignity. That is all we need promise. Any "roles" or thinking about "roles" is separate from those premises. Sex is sex. Gender is gender. The two are different. That determinism was for so long the philosophy of choice regarding the subsequent roles from the biological sex is the problem, not the actual sex designation.

As far as the non-gendered toy movement goes. It's been going on since the '70s. This is not a new fight. Remember Ms. Magazine and Baby X? That magazine and the radical feminist movement were at the vanguard of the sexless toy movement. And they had allies. The toy companies stood to gain billions of dollars if they could develop toys that appealed to both sexes. The cost of production would drop, the ease of marketing would lead to mass appeal, the profit$ would roll in. So why didn't it work? What was stopping them? Profits were aligned with a social cause for once. So what happened? Well, the stubborn insistence of even the youngest infants did. They rejected those sexless or genderless toys and wound up playing with toys that were made for their sex. And so it was...our Platonic gladiator ideal (radical equality of the sexes was enforced for Plato's Gladiator class in The Republic) got a rude natural awakening.

 

Edited February 26 by rockaction

[Bottomfeeder Sports 2,213]

11 minutes ago, rockaction said:

I'm nowhere near them. I simply said you're wrong if you don't think this isn't part of the activist revolution. That your average moderate like Kal El reacts by denying their censorious intent is what they want. They want the middle unaware of what is happening at every level. Last time with the New Left it was education, mass media, religion, and an Overton window shift in politics. The New New Left has been going since '89 and is just making inroads to our culture, a culture of ossified rot and consumerism that has trouble defending itself on principles previously abandoned.

Restate the principles and be unafraid. There are biological sexes, and there is a difference in behaviors between those that inhabit each earthly dominion. It is not necessarily deterministic, but the overwhelming evidence told us and tells us that these differences exist. If we must speak of everything, then admit to those that are intersexed that they are human, too, and will be treated with dignity. That is all we need promise. Any "roles" or thinking about "roles" is separate from those premises. Sex is sex. Gender is gender. The two are different. That determinism was for so long the philosophy of choice regarding the subsequent roles from the biological sex is the problem, not the actual sex designation.

As far as the non-gendered toy movement goes. It's been going on since the '70s. This is not a new fight. Remember Ms. Magazine and Baby X? That magazine and the radical feminist movement were at the vanguard of the sexless toy movement. And they had allies. The toy companies stood to gain billions of dollars if they could develop toys that appealed to both sexes. The cost of production would drop, the ease of marketing would lead to mass appeal, the profit$ would roll in. So why didn't it work? What was stopping them? Profits were aligned with a social cause for once. So what happened? Well, the stubborn insistence of even the youngest infants did. They rejected those sexless or genderless toys and wound up playing with toys that were made for their sex. And so it was...our Platonic gladiator ideal (radical equality of the sexes was enforced for Plato's Gladiator class in The Republic) got a rude natural awakening.

 

A lot of words to say "my bad!"

[rockaction 27,163]

2 minutes ago, Bottomfeeder Sports said:

A lot of words to say "my bad!"

I'm not saying "my bad" at all. That Hasbro isn't doing this had nothing to do with my post. I reaffirmed my position on the matter, actually.

Do you do reading comp at all?

[rockaction 27,163]

Left-wing gonna left-wing to their heart's content.

[Manster 822]

I heard it again on the news that Hasbro IS doing this.....are they or aren't they?