Boys toys

[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."

[wesw]

a pictures worth a thousand words....

[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

[MajGenl.Meade]

[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

[Lord Jim]

Oh man, I know that look...

[Gob]

Yup, seen that one...

[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.

[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...

[wesw]

he was an action figure!!!!!!

[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"

[oldr_n_wsr]

[oldr_n_wsr]

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.

[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....

[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.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Can't you just use Cialis like the rest of us? (LJ asked me to ask you that)

[wesw]

king fu grip was a real up-grade. the fuzzy hair was not pleasant to touch tho

[oldr_n_wsr]

Can't you just use Cialis like the rest of us? (LJ asked me to ask you that)

Wrong thread?

[MajGenl.Meade]

my real metal erector set.

No. Right thread.

[Gob]

king fu grip was a real up-grade.

The "wanker's cramp" model as it was known.

the fuzzy hair was not pleasant to touch tho

Fuzzy hair normally is though?