I want a boy toy
Well, good news, I asked each toy their pronouns and neither responded, so I guess the meds are working. Now, do you want a hot wheels or a barbie?
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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Those people will eventually grow old and die while their children grow up to be slightly less conservative (on average).
Progress is coming. One funeral at the time.
That's what I thought 20 years ago but today I am not so sure :(
For real, the older I get the more sure I am this is part of an endless struggle.
I like to think we're 2 steps forward and 1 step back kind of species
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Right wing propaganda is a helluva drug.
not sure whi said this
Society doesn't change when new ideas are brought up, Society changes when old people die.
It was fucking Max Plank!!!
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ...
Close enough
At what age do people catch conservatism? Is there a vaccine?
Different for each person. Very early if indoctrinated, like religion or peer culture. Some catch it when they transition to working life or overall success and catch the I got mine disease. I'd say it grows fairly early, teens at the latest, and solidifies early 20s. The I got mine crowd can happen late, like 30-40.
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That is unfortunately not how anything works. These people were young as well once, and that didn't stop them from becoming conservative.
My boy is really into cars by default, which is funny since I'd 100% be down with Barbies, too. Daughter though, she just wants Legos and jigsaw puzzles... at age 4. She's just not into gendered stuff, she just wants to build.
She yearns for the mines
No she yearns for the skyscrapers
Why not both? Lol
Hoch- und Tiefbau as we call it in german ... not sure how to translate this ... "building up and down"?
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"Please select the toy whose attributes are more likely to statistically correlate with the reproductive caste demographic which has been labeled 'male' by the consensus of Homo Sapiens who speak English."
"Ma'am do you think a college educated sociologist would work at a fast food drive-thru?"
"In this economy? Absolutely, yes."
"..."
"..."
"...okay fair, I'll put the toy car in the bag."
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This is the person who also throws a bitch fit when a video game asks them if they want body type a or b in the character creator.
But they happily use their USB type C. Hypocrites
Back when I was a kid, they'd judge your kid and give you whatever they thought corresponded to the kid's genitalia. Even when I heard my mother ask for a car toy I'd end up with a Barbie.
Being constantly disappointed by Barbie toys may have been my first hint I wasn't a girl.
Boys can like barbies too. We can acknowledge that gender stereotyping kid's interests was wrong, while acknowledging that their interests don't always define their gender.
As a trans woman that played with Barbie's in secret as a kid....
We can acknowledge that stereotyping toys is dumb, while also acknowledging that kids like me knew those stereotypes, and did it anyways not knowing why.
It's great to point out its stupid. But is comes really fucking close to denying trans people the signs they were trans young, even we didn't even know it.
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No shit, my boy wanted a Barbie when he was little, so he had a Barbie. He also had Legos, and played with blocks, board games and eventually video games. Let kids play with whatever the fuck they want to, they are exploring.
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Yes, but I didn't like Barbie toys. That was my first hint I didn't fit into the gender box that had been prepared for me. I'm not going to retcon my experiences at the age of 4 to fit into a modern concept of how I should have figured out my gender.
That was me, too. I ended up just tossing this whole gender concept out.
I have to say, the hot wheels were hot wheels and the Barbies were ugly statues. One was superior.
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Do I have to order food to get a boy toy?
No there are other ways to get one, but food certainly helps
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This is a confusing conversation. Why couldn’t they say Hot Wheels?
Sexism.
What do you mean? Why does sexism prevent them from asking for the toy by name?
The customer is implying that it is obvious between a barbie and a hot wheels which is gendered for boys. So instead of saying which toy they want, they are expecting the employee to identify which is for boys. It's a subtle way of reinforcing gender binary and societal expectations of what is "appropriate" for children to want to play with.
Simple solution.
Put a Ken toy in the box.
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