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conulySo, as everybody has heard, Target isn't separating it's toys and bedding into "girl" and "boy" sections anymore. My reaction was "Oh, hey, great. Whoop-de-doo." Other people's reaction was more like "Oh! Hey, great! Whoop-de-doo!!!!" but, you know, without the sarcasm. These are both understandable reactions.
Perhaps predictably, or perhaps surprisingly, there are the other people, who look upon this as the unheralded fifth horseman of the apocalypse. In one breath they both proclaim how obvious it is that boys and girls are DIFFERENT, DAMNIT! and profess their total inability to determine which toy goes to which kid without a color coded map and strict gender segregation, preferably with an actual wall between areas. They swear up and down that they and THEIR kids never EVER wanted the WRONG toy (well, yes, most children are amply socialized in gender norms and then some) and then predict how soon the downfall of civilization is going to come once girls realize they can play with trucks. Oh, heavens, won't somebody think of the children???
Nitwits. Were it not for laughing, I should pity them. If ever there were a time to answer fools according to their folly, now is surely that time.
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Perhaps predictably, or perhaps surprisingly, there are the other people, who look upon this as the unheralded fifth horseman of the apocalypse. In one breath they both proclaim how obvious it is that boys and girls are DIFFERENT, DAMNIT! and profess their total inability to determine which toy goes to which kid without a color coded map and strict gender segregation, preferably with an actual wall between areas. They swear up and down that they and THEIR kids never EVER wanted the WRONG toy (well, yes, most children are amply socialized in gender norms and then some) and then predict how soon the downfall of civilization is going to come once girls realize they can play with trucks. Oh, heavens, won't somebody think of the children???
Nitwits. Were it not for laughing, I should pity them. If ever there were a time to answer fools according to their folly, now is surely that time.
Ex-President Warren Harding's Love Child Confirmed Through DNA Testing
New Zealand will shut down its last large coal-fired power generators in 2018
Federal court: Anti-Muslim group can't post ads on buses
Nefertiti 'was buried inside King Tut's tomb'
Cheers! Yeast's Evolutionary Journey Gave Beer Its Flavor
You Missed a Spot (and Made a Mural)
Why Letting Women Take Tea Breaks Was Once Considered Dangerous
Bizarrely Social and Crafty Octopus Stuns Scientists
Attacks on refugees tempered by strong support in Germany
How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2
How Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Changing Medicine
Yes, Virginia, people of color do fucking read SF/F
APA Task Force Aims to Reduce Transphobia Among Psychologists
The 6 Most Intriguing Stupid Questions Answered by Science
The Resurrection of America's Slums
It’s unconstitutional to ban the homeless from sleeping outside, the federal government says
New York police union collecting images of city's homeless
Bid to keep pork substitutes on French school menus rebuffed
Humans responsible for demise of gigantic ancient mammals (Surprise, surprise.)
Clerk's office defies order; no same-sex marriage licenses
Austerity kills: The sad, sick truth about right-wing economics’ body count
Black poverty differs from white poverty
Israel struggles to find medics to force-feed prisoner
Tianjin explosion: Dozens dead; areas of Chinese port city devastated
It turns out parenthood is worse than divorce, unemployment — even the death of a partner
To avoid losses, Syrian army retreats in key region: army source
U.S. begins manned airstrikes from Turkey targeting ISIS
Iraqi Kurdish forces hit with chemical weapons
Blast in busy Baghdad market kills at least 60
Firefighters Gain Some Ground as California Fire Grows
Afghan team due in Pakistan to discuss reviving Taliban peace talks
Saudi and UAE boots on the ground intensify the Yemen war
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