Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
25-02-2021, 22:57
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Anyhoo, looks like all the outrage was premature
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Its called, "WTF have we done, quick, how do we get out of this .........."
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26-02-2021, 08:58
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Its called, "WTF have we done, quick, how do we get out of this .........."
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Or, the "anti-woke" brigade read the headline rather than the article, and felt they had to show outrage on behalf of all the 2-7 year olds who didn’t give a stuff...
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26-02-2021, 09:35
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
The anti-woke brigade is to be commended.
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26-02-2021, 09:46
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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The anti-woke brigade is to be commended.
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Surely that's just normal people, i see wokies as abnormal bordering on the offensive.
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26-02-2021, 10:24
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
Anyone think that the Potato Head debacle may have been deliberate to raise awareness of the brand?
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26-02-2021, 10:59
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Anyone think that the Potato Head debacle may have been deliberate to raise awareness of the brand?
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Hasn't worked for me, haven't a clue what it is.
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26-02-2021, 11:01
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Hasn't worked for me, haven't a clue what it is.
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You may not know what it is but you are now aware of it, so to speak!
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26-02-2021, 11:22
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Anyone think that the Potato Head debacle may have been deliberate to raise awareness of the brand?
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Trust you! They could only attract negative reaction from reasonable people.
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26-02-2021, 12:07
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Trust you! They could only attract negative reaction from reasonable people.
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If getting sad, angry, upset because a toy company rebranded their plastic potato toys is reasonable, then I guess I must be unreasonable.
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26-02-2021, 12:14
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Hasn't worked for me, haven't a clue what it is.
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Will you be rebranding yourself as "K"?
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26-02-2021, 12:44
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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If getting sad, angry, upset because a toy company rebranded their plastic potato toys is reasonable, then I guess I must be unreasonable.
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Not quite sure of your point there, Jon - but to me any attack on the woke brigade or companies that yield stupidly to that pressure is valid. It's absolutely ludicrous to do this type of rebranding.
There is a case for Barbie dolls embracing a wider field, more certainly for ethnicity. And they've (Mattel) released a so-called gender neutral doll. Sort of makes sense because the kit allows the child to fit the doll out according to the child's wishes.
But changing the language, referring to a person in the singular as "they" is worthy of outrage.
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26-02-2021, 13:22
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Surely that's just normal people, i see wokies as abnormal bordering on the offensive.
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Oh, the irony (or the projection)...
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26-02-2021, 13:31
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Will you be rebranding yourself as "K"?
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26-02-2021, 13:45
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Not quite sure of your point there, Jon - but to me any attack on the woke brigade or companies that yield stupidly to that pressure is valid. It's absolutely ludicrous to do this type of rebranding.
There is a case for Barbie dolls embracing a wider field, more certainly for ethnicity. And they've (Mattel) released a so-called gender neutral doll. Sort of makes sense because the kit allows the child to fit the doll out according to the child's wishes.
But changing the language, referring to a person in the singular as "they" is worthy of outrage.
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You may wish to offer your services to these multi-billion dollar companies who have huge marketing intelligence budgets, with your insights into how to increase their market share... 
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Re: Backlash as BBC teaches NINE year olds there is 100 Genders
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Not quite sure of your point there, Jon - but to me any attack on the woke brigade or companies that yield stupidly to that pressure is valid. It's absolutely ludicrous to do this type of rebranding.
There is a case for Barbie dolls embracing a wider field, more certainly for ethnicity. And they've (Mattel) released a so-called gender neutral doll. Sort of makes sense because the kit allows the child to fit the doll out according to the child's wishes.
But changing the language, referring to a person in the singular as "they" is worthy of outrage.
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Why does it outrage you? It's a commercial decision to widen the customer base for vegetable based plastic toys. At worst it will do nothing and at best, there will be more customers.
I am struggling to see the harm here to be honest
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