Guy makes fake Facebook account to troll people who are angry at Target (Superstore)
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[quote]After Target announced that they would be making their toy section gender neutral—no signs demarcating toys for “girls” or “boys”—some people were upset by the move and took to Target’s Facebook page. They didn’t expect the response they got from user Mike Melgaard, who pretended to be an official Target customer service account.
All Melgaard needed to fuel outrage and confusion was a Facebook account he created called Ask ForHelp that sported Target’s bullseye logo. Ask ForHelp was obviously not verified, but most people didn’t care, interacting with Melgaard and growing increasingly irate as he trolled their gender neutral hatin’ ways. [/quote]
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Haha. Nice.
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I don't know if some of these people, including this one, are serious, or do they not read to see it's just the toy section? This stuff is hilarious as hell though :v:
I like this one:
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I like how not having rigid gender roles and stereotypes is 'sissification', 'PC', and 'socialism'. The first is particularly ironic since it's basically consigning weakness and submissiveness to femininity, and you're a commie PC progressive if you, like target, suggest otherwise. Common sense conservativism is truly common ignorance.
It gets more ironic when in the midst of accusations of pandering, they threaten to not shop if their values are not catered to. One kind of 'pandering' affects no one and the other is based on marginalizing a group, one is PC and the other is just traditional, common sense 'murican values.
It also suggests something about the mentality when they're obsessed with the 'sissification' of boys and not strengthening of girls. I guess because it means one will grow up to be a betacuck and the other a butch lesbian that never furthers the bloodline.
This is clearly the best one:
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It's got everything. The regressive idiot is even more of an idiot than usual - there's a lot of things you can say about Islamic fundamentalism, but "liberal gender politics" is not one of them. And the troll response is short but perfect.
Hah, oh my fucking god this is brilliant:
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God dammit seriously?
Hah, even the real Target had to have a little fun with it too:
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[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;48464636][t]http://i.imgur.com/Vo2AoP2.jpg[/t]
God dammit seriously?[/QUOTE]
That one made me snort my coffee onto my keyboard. :v:
It's amazing how hard these people will work to avoid progression of rights in ways that don't affect them at all. If you believe you son wants an action man [sp]he doesn't[/sp] it's not like target are going to force you to get him a matching barbie, and if you needed the signs to tell whether it was a 'boy toy' or 'girl toy' then maybe your rigid genders aren't as rigid as you thought.
The thing that gets me the most about these idiots getting mad about toys not being sorted by gender is the fact that if the difference between boys and girls are so important, there'd be no need to sort by gender, since you'd be able to tell at a glance. If you couldn't tell at a glance, then the separation is arbitrary and unneeded.
Really, either way, even if they're right, they're wrong.
Oh man this is priceless!
this is funny and all but it must have been a slow news day for it to get an article
[QUOTE=gman003-main;48464629]This is clearly the best one:
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It's got everything. The regressive idiot is even more of an idiot than usual - there's a lot of things you can say about Islamic fundamentalism, but "liberal gender politics" is not one of them. And the troll response is short but perfect.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;48464634]Hah, oh my fucking god this is brilliant:
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God dammit seriously?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;48465115]Brilliant:
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Did you guys even try?
[QUOTE=Digivee;48465143]Did you guys even try?[/QUOTE]
No, they just really didn't read the thread.
We really need the late rating back...
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;48464636]
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God dammit seriously?[/QUOTE]
If you're so insistent on buying "boy" and "girl" toys how hard is it to tell the difference between a Transformer and a Barbie?
no you see they don't want to take their kids into the wrong toy section so they don't get confused about their sexuality
i mean imagine if you're walking through the neutral toy aisle with your boy and he starts saying he wants that barbie he saw? boom, he just got turned into a faggot by the PC SJW socialist liberal communists agenda
its not about their insecurities and inability to accept that their son might be gay, its about THINK OF THE CHILDREN
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;48465289]no you see they don't want to take their kids into the wrong toy section so they don't get confused about their sexuality
i mean imagine if you're walking through the neutral toy aisle with your boy and he starts saying he wants that barbie he saw? boom, he just got turned into a faggot by the PC SJW socialist liberal communists agenda
its not about their insecurities and inability to accept that their son might be gay, its about THINK OF THE CHILDREN[/QUOTE]
I legitimately wanted an easy bake oven when I was a kid.
But they only came in girly ass pink :(
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;48465200]If you're so insistent on buying "boy" and "girl" toys how hard is it to tell the difference between a Transformer and a Barbie?[/QUOTE]
Just let the kid pick something, problem solved.
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;48465360]I legitimately wanted an easy bake oven when I was a kid.
But they only came in girly ass pink :([/QUOTE]
I wanted one because who the FUCK doesn't want a toy that makes FOOD
but noooo gender norms are a thing so I can't have the TOY THAT MAKES FOOD
[QUOTE=Levithan;48465542]I wanted one because who the FUCK doesn't want a toy that makes FOOD
but noooo gender norms are a thing so I can't have the TOY THAT MAKES FOOD[/QUOTE]
You really missed out, they were the shit
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48465175]No, they just really didn't read the thread.
We really need the late rating back...[/QUOTE]
ikr
people use your eyes before you post
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;48465360]I legitimately wanted an easy bake oven when I was a kid.
But they only came in girly ass pink :([/QUOTE]
My sister got one and I was excited about it, too. But to tell you the truth, they were a hassle and the food made for them was expensive and made really tiny portions. Cool concept, poor execution.
[QUOTE=Digivee;48465143]Did you guys even try?[/QUOTE]
I literally posted when everyone else did. When I looked all three of our posts said "1 Minute Ago" so I had a chuckle.
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48465175]No, they just really didn't read the thread.
We really need the late rating back...[/QUOTE]
If we didn't read the news article, how would we have found the image?
lol
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;48465810]I literally posted when everyone else did. When I looked all three of our posts said "1 Minute Ago" so I had a chuckle.
If we didn't read the news article, how would we have found the image?
lol[/QUOTE]
They didn't read the other posts in the thread though.
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48465879]They didn't read the other posts in the thread though.[/QUOTE]
Because 4 hours ago, it was smaller, and 3 people felt like sharing the same thing at relatively the same time which wasn't discussed in this thread.
It's not rocket science.
Except Handsome Matt, that was literally late as hell.
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This one had me in tears.
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This one had me in tears.[/QUOTE]
Ok holy shit. Five times.
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This one had me in tears.[/QUOTE]
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Ah shit now people are going to start to repost that ironically, just you wait and see
[editline]15th August 2015[/editline]
I don't really get why this is a big deal though, the toys aren't even changing, they just removed the boy/girl signs and stuff.
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