Society/Culture Has cancel culture gone too far?

[Chief]

So it wasn't product line consolidation. It was re-branding as per woke culture.

So what?

 

[Frank Bunn]

So what?

I'm not going to spoon feed you.

 

[The Passenger]

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

 

[Suspense]

Yeah nah.

“Culture has evolved,” Kimberly Boyd, who works on the Potato Head brand at Hasbro, told Fast Company. “Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand currently exists - with the “Mr.” and “Mrs.” - is limiting when it comes to both gender identity and family structure.”​

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The “sweet spot” for the Potato Head toy is about two or three years old, Boyd told Fast Company. Not just because of its silliness, but because of its capacity to serve as a blank slate where they can model their experiences. “This often takes the form of creating little potato families, because they’re learning what it means to be in a family.”​

No more ‘Mr.’ Potato Head: classic toy goes gender neutral

Hasbro announced it would be rebranding the iconic quick-change toy to break away from traditional ideas about gender roles and family structures.

www.theage.com.au

Sure it is - they are consolidating the 'Mr. Potato Head' and 'Mrs. Potato Head' product lines into a single 'Potato Head' product line.

If this really was about some woke culture conspiracy to remove the terms “Mr.” and “Mrs.” from the lexicon, as has been suggested, they've botched it completely considering you can still buy a 'Mr. Potato Head' and 'Mrs. Potato Head'.

Fwiw, everything she said is true - there are gender-neutral people who don't use traditional titles that identify a binary gender. Acknowledging this fact doesn't preclude the vast majority of people from using those titles when referring to themselves or Hasbro from selling potato heads that also use those titles.

 

[Chief]

I'm not going to spoon feed you.

So you don’t want to explain how you feel about it. You have no argument against it. Nothing to say.

Fine.

 

[Carringbush2010]

They aren't. They are removing 'Mr' from the overall branding. Mr and Mrs Potato Head toys will still be available. Would be madness to kill off two successful products.

Exactly what I said, they're removing cancelling the Mr. and Mrs. I don't see the necessity.

 

[Carringbush2010]

Hasbro is officially renaming the MR. POTATO HEAD brand to POTATO HEAD to better reflect the full line.

https://corporate.hasbro.com/en-us/articles/create_your_potato_head_family_launching_this_fall

It's a product line consolidation. It was a standard corporate press release that only became 'news' because hack journalists knew that a very sensitive segment of the internet with nothing better to do with their lives would get worked up about it and retweet/repost it (as you have done here) - giving them clicks and views.

Can you explain how I've got worked up? I'm merely stating that removing the prefix of Mr. and Mrs. is not necessary.

So they've removed the prefix to make news about the product, Hasbro may have found it necessary to remove the prefix for product marketing purposes.

Potato head must've been losing sales pretty badly if that is the sole reason for removing that prefix. Could've found other ways like a marketing campaign for Mr. & Mrs. Potato head instead. Obviously Hasbro thought differently.

 

[Scotland]

 

[Carringbush2010]

So which is Hasbro?

Are you removing the pre fix or are you not?

 

[Scotland]

JHC.

Circled, Potato Head brand.

Highlighted, Mr and Mrs Potato Head models.

 

[The Passenger]

If they were just called "potato head" from the start, literally no one would have ever batted an eye lid.

Likewise, had they just quietly altered the brand name to "potato head" I doubt anyway would have noticed (but then where would all free publicity come from?).

 

[Chief]

Can you explain how I've got worked up? I'm merely stating that removing the prefix of Mr. and Mrs. is not necessary.

Picket a toy shop.

 

[Carringbush2010]

Picket a toy shop.

And why would I do that?

 

[Chief]

And why would I do that?

It’s better than bugging us.

 

[Scotland]

If they were just called "potato head" from the start, literally no one would have ever batted an eye lid.

Likewise, had they just quietly altered the brand name to "potato head" I doubt anyway would have noticed (but then where would all free publicity come from?).

I didn't even know there was an overarching Mr Potato Head/Potato Head brand encompassing the Mr and Mrs Potato Head products.

Now that I do and that it is changing I am very concerned for the fabric of society as we know it.

 

[Carringbush2010]

It’s better than bugging us.

Not my intent, apologies for unintentionally bugging you. Anyone else feel I'm bugging them?

You're free to put me on ignore Chief btw, it won't bug me.

 

[Chief]

I didn't even know there was an overarching Mr Potato Head/Potato Head brand encompassing the Mr and Mrs Potato Head products.

Now that I do and that it is changing I am very concerned for the fabric of society as we know it.

It’s pretty huge.

 

[Scotland]

It’s pretty huge.

Not wanting to trust a news.com.au tagline, I Googled 'My Potato Head' to see what the hoo ha was about.

One of the top few results was a toy retailer, Mr Toys. Did smirk.

True story, tell your grandkids.

 

[Chief]

So they haven’t shut Mr Toys down yet??

 

[Scotland]

It will just be called 'Toys' from now on.

 

[Chief]

Wise move.

 

[The Passenger]

Should change the name to Mr, Mrs and Mx Toys. I'd enjoy the meltdown.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

This is a bit strange. Amanda Gorman picked a translator for her poems to be published in Dutch. She picked the translator. But the translator isn't black so people got upset. Why does her translator need to be black? It wasn't a concern for Gorman.

'Shocked by the uproar': Amanda Gorman's white translator quits

International Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld will not translate inaugural poet’s work into Dutch after anger that a Black writer was not hired

www.theguardian.com

 

[Frank Bunn]

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JHC.

Circled, Potato Head brand.

Highlighted, Mr and Mrs Potato Head models.

So they are having their Mr Potato Head and eating it too?

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Seriously?

6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published for racist images

BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author's legacy said Tuesday.

apnews.com