Culture A mister no more: Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral

A mister no more: Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral​

https://apnews.com/article/mr-potato-head-goes-gender-neutral-d3c178f2b9b0c424ed814657be41a9d8 (https://archive.vn/8K4Yu)

NEW YORK (AP) — Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister.

Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year.

Toy makers have been updating their classic brands to appeal to kids today. Barbie has shed its blonde image and now comes in multiple skin tones and body shapes. Thomas the Tank Engine added more girl characters. And American Girl is now selling a boy doll.

Hasbro said Mr. Potato Head, which has been around for about 70 years, needed a modern makeover.

 

[Queen Of The Harpies]

Without the Mr. or Mrs, "Potato Head" sounds like an insult.

Once parents of downies and other retards get wind of that, they'll have to change the name to just 'Head'

 

[Jebu Nagazi]

Rian Johnson is transitioning ?

 

[the clap]

Finally ADF gets his own toy

 

[Clown Baby]

Can't wait til Ken and Barbie are just amorphous blobs with neon hair. Renamed Zen and Zarbie, they are genderqueers who go by any pronouns and they also invented gender.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

I read the title and just burst out laughing, it's amazing

 

[Full Race Replay]

not only smooth potato skin, but smooth potato brain

 

[Reverend]

This allows the manufacturer to reduce the following:

1. Different boxes with different labels
2. Different types of "potato heads"
3. Different sets of equipment aka molds to make the parts.

One box, one part set of molds, one sku to ship. One assembly line with no options.

All this is doing is reducing options which is a cost cutting measure thereby saving the company money and they are spinning this to show they are being "Inclusive and Diverse".

 

[Marissa Moira]

Women most affected.

(RIP Mrs. Potato Head)

I bet this spreads to the Pac-Men.

 

[mandatorylurk]

This is something no one asked for. Don Rickles is rolling over in his grave.

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

Of course they use the gayest, most soy-poisoned Mr. Potato Heads I've ever fucking seen to illustrate the article.

As silly as it is, this does get to me slightly. Wokeshit worms itself into the most insignificant of things and mutates them to fit its agenda. Children cannot even play with this classic toy anymore without being politically manipulated, and it's just the last thing in a long line of similar happenings. Eventually nothing will be left. We all must line up and praise the woke.

Just let kids be kids.

 

[christie]

Can't wait til Ken and Barbie are just amorphous blobs with neon hair. Renamed Zen and Zarbie, they are genderqueers who go by any pronouns and they also invented gender.

over my dead, plastic body.

literally nobody asked for this. not even a toy potato is safe from the woke crowd and the corporations trying to appease them. are they gonna change his name in the toy story credits and wikipedia now, like they did for ellen page?

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1365038178814590995 (https://archive.vn/YAnPf)

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

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I'm more relieved over this than I should, but not relieved enough because I know a gang of speds will now proceed to try and cancel Hasbro over this.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Their PR team must be working overtime to have such a quick reaction to the backlash.

 

[Cilleystring]

Next will be Autogyne Ed Gein Potatohead who is really just a Mr. Potatohead who murders Mrs. Potatohead and puts his face over his.

 

[verygayFrogs]

Showed my mom this and she said that she was glad to not be having any more kids and that little kids would have no idea what the hell any of that means

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

Potato Head sounds like a slur. This is retarded. Half of the value of toy brands are in the name—lincoln logs wouldn't be the same if they were just "building logs." Plus, I imagine for a lot of subpar toys like Mr Potato Head (yeah, this toy was always stupid, come at me), the attraction for parents is buying their kids a toy they played with as a kid. Change the name and suddenly that attraction is diminished significantly.

The suits at Hasbro were too retarded to tell the gender specials to fuck off and the saddest thing is that a billion dollar corporation like Hasbro won't even feel their wallets tighten if nobody bought this dumb toy ever again.

 

[Gig Bucking Fun]

This move was made by Hasbro in solidarity for Jim Sterling

 

[Dysnomia]

I don't get it. There's a Mr. Potato Head. There's a Mrs. Potato Head. Buy the one you like. Kids do not want to make non-binary softtaters with xe/xir pronouns.

No kid ever wants this stuff. Adults want it because identity politics. Watch it rot on the shelf with fat non-binary Barbie and all that other stuff you only hear about in articles but never see kids you know playing with.

We all know this was a desperate attempt for #woke points by Hasbro. Next we'll be hearing that everypony can be a pink and purple filly.

 

[UselessIdiot]

Is it Mx. Potato Head now?

And yes, I have seen "Mx." used before instead of "Mr." or "Miss/Mrs./Ms.".

Truly a groundbreaking day for root vegetables across the globe.