Resistance is futile. You WILL be assimilated!

Since I was from the prehistoric days, I went straight to 1st grade like ALL kids in my location and time. I barely ever knew that Mr or Mrs Potato head even existed to this day. So, if whoever today is in charge of putting the Potato family out as toys ......if they want to scrub away the gender profiles, I would not care. It is NOT any of my business. They can do as they please on that one. I am NOT the toy police.

Yes!
 

Yes!! Finally someone with the courage to speak out about how to deal with this nonsense! We can’t just sit here and mock the “woke-ers.” We have to DO something to show them we’re not going to sit still for this! Hitting these companies in the wallet is the way to do it. Don’t buy their products. Write letters to their CEO’s. Protest loudly. What they’re doing is just the first step on the road to taking away our freedom to think for ourselves. We can make fun of it, but our children and grandchildren will suffer if these morons take over our school curricula, as they’re trying to do. The destruction of everything we hold dear about this country is their goal. Grandparents can have powerful voices. Use them!

Oh for the halcyon days when public misogyny, sexism, prejudice and discrimination were not only condoned, but even encouraged. This push towards a fairer, kinder, more equal and empathetic nation, will be the ruin of us yet. Unless, like myself and tens of millions of others, you believe that these are worthwhile goals for a developed country.

Thanks for answering my question.🤔

Bring back 7of 9 👀

Our country is Gone With The Wind. They all need pacifiers.

World is getting dumber and dumber. Such nonsense to change these names.

:ohdear: Sorry, but I think "Gone With The Wind" is a no-no too! :popcorn:

Talk about fake news, sheesh.

Facts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...drseuss-books/

TOTV is becoming a haven for this crap.

You wonder about folks who believe this stuff, and post it, and wonder much more about those who simply accept it as fact, and send the post along with a comment.

"the American culture?" Seriously? Do you really want to go there? The American culture exists because undocumented immigrants showed up from the other side of the planet, invaded the continent, and attempted genocide on the natives living here. Once they wiped out most of the tribes and took their females to OWN and rape, they then tore up the native lands and gutted their sacred graveyards and sanctuaries to build buildings. Of course they couldn't build the entire country themselves, so at some point early on, they imported slaves from Africa to do most of the hard work, including raping THEIR females and selling the offspring to other landowners.

That is the "American culture."

Which - thankfully, has evolved over the past couple of centuries. You might prefer to continue murdering native Americans, raping the women and forcing black men to plow your fields at the end of a whip, but most Americans have a different culture now.

It's probably in your best interest to catch up.

Personally I'd much rather see Mr. Potato Head, Mrs. Potato Head, and baby - gender-neutral - Potato Head.

That would make it truly inclusive.

I yell...fight back against something that never happened.

See post 55

I so totally agree.. it’s scary

Founding Fathers & The Constitution
 

[QUOTE=maggie1;1908836]I know this is off-topic, but as long as the founding fathers are brought into this, do you think they would have gone along with "The Right to Bear Arms" amendment if they knew that one day we'd have weapons that were capable of firing hundreds of rounds of ammunition in seconds, and capable of mass killings of school children?

Now, back on the topic of Mr. Potatoe Head, at some point, we'll discover that we have become just too ridiculous on issues that address the feelings of a minority of people, but by then it will be too late to change back. The USA has just become too complicated, and I think back to a movie I saw titled " No Country for Old Men" and consider this an apt description for where we are headed.[/QUOTE

Do you think they would have gone along with "The Right to Free Speech” 1st. amendment if they knew that one day we'd have computers that were capable of writing hundreds of words in seconds, and capable of mass propaganda brainwashing of school children?

Stupid logic indeed!😎

To be inclusive they need MR. Rotten Potato Head to join the party.

Now that I think of it used to play with a real potato sticking things into Mr Potato Head.

Poor Mr Potato Head that must have really hurt.

What about the deadly Man Colds?
'Non specific gender cold' just doesn't do it for me!:icon_wink:

Enjoying coffee from my Mr Coffee maker this morning. How long until Mr Coffee is gone?

When will this stop!!!!!!!!!

How about Uncle Ben???????

When the silent majority speaks up.

I kind of had a crush on my favorite aunt.

:agree: However, judging by the overall slant of this thread (and too many others), throwing in facts is not going to get in the way of an indignant rant... :ohdear:

Facts have a way of getting in the way once you have a fantasy that allows you to rant and rave.

What folks are missing is the long, dangerous fall when you must face reality. Then again, it appears that some are willing be be “treated” to fantasies instead of reality.

It will be a fall for many when facing reality.

Never in my life did I imagine that I would live in a world that is changing the gender of a plastic potato. :rolleyes:

Mark Twain said something like we do not make any progress because as we move forward we lose what was.

My childhood. I must have been deprived. My parents did not have much money.
Deprived? I never had a potato head. We did not have food to play with. Regrets?
I always want the 64 color box of crayola. I bought a box at one of the dollar stores for a buck. Strange, my brother in law, who I am not close to did the same.

Normal? We cannot control where things are moving. Normal was not normal it is only what we remember it was. Like it or not, we will not go back to what was if, it was as we remember it was.

Well some people must think that a plastic potato should have rights!

You know, even if they change the name of Mr. Coffee to Person Coffee - you're still allowed to call it Mr. Coffee. Same thing when Sugar Smacks and Sugar Crisps changed THEIR names. You can call them whatever you want, no one will take your precious adjectives and nouns away from you.

For God's sake, it's a freaking TOY, don't we have bigger things to worry about?

We are talking about the advertising power in the name of products that help sell them. Mr. has always had connotations even beginning with...."WAIT a minute there, MR.!!!!!" You use all tools to sell a product. I always picked up my "Aunt Jemima" products with the sweet smiling, chubby older face and thought how warm and welcoming she looked. SHE, her picture drew us to the product and that helped sell it. I am sure Jeep uses the word Cherokee for one of it's models because it brings images of handsome and strong and wild and free and other good things. People try to give brands they want to sell a connotation that will be attractive.

Capitalism is NOT a bad word. It is the strength that runs our economy in this country. Advertising has a new culture. I rarely see anyone on Television touting a product or service that looks at all like the folks I see everyday. Maybe that is good and enlarging but it isn't always "old shoes-comfortable".

No one can make you use “gender neutral speak”!

Apparently not

I bet Mr. PH can reunite with MIssus White from Clue and they can have all sorts of uncensored fun games in Toyland.

I must have failed to push "send" because I was sure I answered this.

I remember typing that this thread was about the use of gender in advertising and how someone or someone's were fiddling with it.

BUT since you view what I think of as American Culture differently than I do, I will say this; I do not think of American Culture as you have portrayed it at all. When I think of American Culture, I think of strong, self reliant, hard working people taking not much and making it into a home and a life. I do not know of any single soul in my 81 years who would want slavery. Those people are dead. We, here in this culture of The Villages, A very alive American Culture, do not rape people or force them to work in the fields against their will, nor would anyone I have ever met here or anywhere condone that. It was things that happened to people who no longer live. Women died in childbirth before surgery and antibiotics but I do not think of THAT as American Culture. No one would wish THAT either.

Some people are fixated with arguing and have completely lost their humor. I refuse to be lectured. The "you" you speak of is not me nor anyone I would ever know.

I hope this post makes it through edit.