Swedish toy catalog - Boy with a doll, Girl with a gun

By showing two pictures out of a catalog, with which I'm guessing hundreds of pictures of toys, you figured out just those two, that it was sterotyping?

 

That's why I'm not sending them an email.

 

Fair points. These are legitimate grievances.

 

OMG, they are giving killer bees, black widows, and praying mantis women guns? We are doomed a tell you, doomed.


{Where’s my doll…}

 

Did it ever occur to you that people with the mindset of American Conservatives might be a fringe group in Sweden? A minutely small one at that?

 

If Swedes think that political correctness run this amok is normal, then they are on the fringe.

 

I'm willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of Swedes didn't give two craps about a toy catalog showing boys in superhero costumes, and girls as princesses. They probably looked at the images without anything negative entering their minds as a result.

 

I'm shaking with rage.

 

Perhaps it's not run amok, just that our perception of political correctness is actually run amok in the first place?

 

On the fringe of what? Homophobic sexists longing for stereotyped gender-norms are getting pretty rare throughout the Western World. Even in the USA they couldn't decide the last Presidential election.

 

First this, what next....TERRORIST DOLLS???

 

Never underestimate the Swedes.

 

the corporation, (and it was the corporation, not Sweden that sent out this ad ) gained profit from this, so it seems that they're not just trying to influence politics. though they ARE influencing them, i want people to realize that that's not their sole objective. that and i personally think it's great that a company is deciding to alter their advertising. progress occurs because of change and i love progress.

 

I never trusted the bastard, and I for one have not forgot the VIKINGS.

See you in Valhala..

 

How do you know they've gained profit from this?

 

We shall have to wait until after the Christmas season and until the company releases its numbers. But they are surely hoping for profit from it.

 

We shall have to wait until after the Christmas season and until the company releases its numbers. But they are surely hoping for profit from it.

 

because it's a corporation, they're legally obligated to do so.

 

From an evolutionist prospective, it's anti-progress, not progress.

 

Why? Do you think the modern world needs hairy men wielding clubs and big-titted women getting one baby after the other?
The world I live in requires men to be able to change nappies and women to be able to drive cars.

 

well they don’t need to have kids but im a fan of big titted women in general

 

It's a mother thing, I gather...

 

My mother was a feminist and she bought dolls for my brother and me. My recollection is we used them as weapons to hit each other.

 

Hmm.

Bit Ed Gein.

 

i duno but yay boobys