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Boys toys
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:39 pm
by Gob
Tesco has removed a sign which referred to a superhero alarm clock as a "gift for a boy" from its stores after a complaint from a seven-year-old girl.
Karen Cole posted a photo of her "superhero-loving" daughter Maggie on Twitter next to the sign at the Tower Park branch in Poole, Dorset.
It has since been retweeted more than 10,000 times.
Tesco apologised and said the sign had been removed, adding it would "make a great gift for both girls and boys".
Mrs Cole, from Shaftesbury, tweeted: "My superhero loving 7yo daughter not impressed when she spotted this sign in @Tesco today @LetToysBeToys"
The mother of three said Maggie had always been interested in superheroes, dragons and knights.
Last year, she said she explained to her "all toys were for all people" after she had concerns that some were only for boys, and others only for girls.
"When she saw the sign I think she was cross because it was saying the opposite of what I had told her," Mrs Cole said.
She said she had been "amazed" by the response on social media and was "very pleased" the signs had been taken down.
A Tesco spokesman said: "The sign has been removed and we're sorry if it caused any confusion."
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:05 pm
by wesw
a pictures worth a thousand words....
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:48 pm
by rubato
Just print up identical packaging for the same toy which says "fun gifts for girls" stock them in similar numbers and be done with it.
yrs,
rubao
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:10 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:14 pm
by rubato
People like to think that they are buying a gift which is, in some way, particularly suited to the recipient.
An equality of mildly manipulative packaging is a form of equality. Give them what they think they want; isn't that the retail way?
yrs,
rubato
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:22 pm
by Lord Jim
Oh man, I know that look...
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:08 pm
by Gob
Yup, seen that one...
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 6:34 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I remember when I was a kid getting a GI Joe and mom commented, "so now you are playing with dolls?"
What little masculinity I had at that age was damaged that day.
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:20 pm
by wesw
yeah! I got my g i joe, with kung fu grip, and received a jibe about playing with dolls too, just as he climbed his first tree...
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:21 pm
by wesw
he was an action figure!!!!!!
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:53 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Old joke
Little girl - sweet seven year old - goes with grandma to a toy store so she can pick out her Christmas gift(s) from grandma. She has $20 to spend.
She chooses a $10 Barbie and asks the salesman where the GI Joe figures are. "Oh" says the assistant, "you don't mean GI Joe - you mean Ken. Barbie comes with Ken"
"No" says the little girl, "She comes with GI Joe. She only fakes it with Ken"
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:28 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:30 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
wesw wrote:yeah! I got my g i joe, with kung fu grip, and received a jibe about playing with dolls too, just as he climbed his first tree...
Did he have "lifelike" hair?
I still have my GI Joe but only the top half of him. I cut him in half and made him hte pilot of my RC Aeromaster bi-plane.
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:05 pm
by wesw
yeah, he had the fuzzy hair.
I think he met his demise in a Barbie car filled with little paint thinner bottles and firecrackers...
my snap-tite models met their doom that way too....
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:27 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Mine didn't have kung fu grip nor life-like hair. He was an earlier version.
He did have painted on blonde hair.
I still have the official GI Joe foot locker. It is now holding my real metal erector set.
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:37 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Can't you just use Cialis like the rest of us? (LJ asked me to ask you that)
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:11 pm
by wesw
king fu grip was a real up-grade. the fuzzy hair was not pleasant to touch tho
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:16 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Can't you just use Cialis like the rest of us? (LJ asked me to ask you that)
Wrong thread?
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:58 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
oldr_n_wsr wrote: my real metal erector set.
No. Right thread.
Re: Boys toys
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:45 pm
by Gob
wesw wrote: king fu grip was a real up-grade.
The "wanker's cramp" model as it was known.
wesw wrote: the fuzzy hair was not pleasant to touch tho
Fuzzy hair normally is though?
