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[–] JayObey711@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This actually happened to me when I worked at McDonald's. Guy wanted a toy for boys. I listed all the stuff we had and asked to pick. None of the toys were really gendered at all. He kept insisting that I should just pick a toy for boys.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yes sir. A toy for boys. Are we speaking of a genderfluid boy maybe or an honest god-fearing, completely heteronormative boy - no shame in that, sir, it's not your fault.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago

"Bless your little heart sir. I know it's not easy choosing the "boy toy" when one isn't pink. But I need to reach deep down into those man genes and deduce which one is the boy toy. If you choose poorly then you and your kids are super gay now. Dems da rules sir!."

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

Well obviously the boy toys are the ones I use my penis to play with.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 8 hours ago

I know entire places where thirsty people would offer to be boy toys, but something tells me they'd change their minds instantly upon seeing them.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

I'd be a great boy toy ;) One at a time please, ladies.

[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago

I dont geht it... Why did she have Herr the Barbie? (Me remembering clearly playing with my sisters barbie dolls)

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

Damn, that's a tough choice. Gimme an extra happy meal and both.

[–] ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Does it have to be fashion police or can it annihilate anyone?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 7 hours ago

It can annihilate any kind of police

[–] prex@aussie.zone 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

As the holder, you get to decide what is a fashion crime.
Tasteful suit? Annihilation. Sandals & socks? not a problem.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 6 points 15 hours ago

Sandals & socks? not a problem.

Phew! I'm safe for now.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago
[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 114 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Some will see this and think this is a sign of progress, that we are transitioning into a society where your genitals don't determine what toys you get to play with. Others will look at this and think the world is slipping in anarchy and moral decay.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 6 hours ago

Some of those "morals" need to decay.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

I wish they just didn't give out crappy plastic toys at all.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 33 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The third group of us secretly want both toys

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn't learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There was a moral panic in the 19th century where people were outraged that young girls from good families kept reading novels. They said it would lead to social self-isolation and bookishness and distract from apropriate activities like knitting, socialising, looking pretty and smiling.

And young women were thought to be largely unable to discern fact from fiction and hold their gentlemen callers to the same standards as the men in their novels. And you know, women having standards... the 18th century couldn't have that.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago

Jokes on them, both men and women now isolate themselves thanks to C.AI (=

I'm glad I wasn't sober when someone incidentally compared happy meal toys to the invention of movable type.

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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 190 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This triggers a memory!

Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the "girl or boy toy with your happy meal?" question. We were both girls so we automatically answered "girl toy." After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said "one of each please" we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can feel the lingering pain you still carry about having these 4 useless Jasmine and not a single Aladdin when reading this.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

neither of them are boys. One is a doll the other is a toy car.

Oh a boy**'s** toy? Well both if them belong to the company until you choose. I dont think the company is a boy or a girl, and i think most of our shareholders are adults

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

I love that lol

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