Mattel is looking to redefine stereotypes by releasing a new gender-neutral doll for all children. Thoughts?

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Isaacwn · Accepted Answer

The only thing different about the dolls is the title. When I watch my niece and nephew, my niece only has girl dolls. But to even it out, we will call some of her girl dolls boys, depending on what crazy plot she has for that day. She’s also called her dolls weird alien genders as well. It’s adorable actually.

What I’m saying is, I feel like kids imaginations will take over, and they will be able to give identity while preserving the original identity, so that they can distinguish between whatever identity the doll originally was and what identity they are giving it. Now, these dolls, to me, aren’t going to change much. Yes, kids should know about the binary genders (male and female) to avoid running into things kids shouldn’t run into when they are so little and have a wild imagination ( I. e. anything sexual.) actually I feel that is EXTREMELY important. I stand by that notion. It’s instinctive for someone to identify the other based on gender. But overall, these dolls will just heighten their imagination more, if they have the basis on “there are two genders” because it can then teach them no bias, really. But also keep them well informed. Touchy subject.

SirRexington · Accepted Answer

I'm honestly really fucking tired of constantly hearing about gender deconstructionist nonsense all the time. The human brain is complex snd difficult to understand, we get it. But stop rubbing it in our faces. Why can't men just be men and women be women? Not everything has to be a lesson on gender roles/expression.

lornakrys · Accepted Answer

I find this utterly necessary. Children don't know what gender is. We teach them. I don't think kids at doll playing age could care less. Might actually be more confusing than helpful. If I want to play family, which one's the man and which the woman. Even if the child knew you could have two men or two women, they still can't tell WHICH is the man. This doesn't teach anything about LGBTQ, or being straight. I really don't see the point. Unless there is a completely gender less group this is representing maybe? Also why are we teaching doll playing children about sexuality? WHY? I think it's creepy to talk to a 3 year old about sex. Regardless of what kind of sex

SuperSWC · Accepted Answer

Get woke, go broke. have fun selling it to the 0.0001% gender neutral people that make up earth's population.

Nobody-gives-a-finch · Answer

As a wise man once said, "Don't go changing anything from previous generations without a VERY good reason."
Many good reasons have been presented. Certain feminist movements made much progress, as well as all anti-racism. Medicines have been developed, theories established, and utility worldwide has improved dramatically.
That being said, it can be taken too far. Throughout history, patterns have been established, sometimes considered "old-fashioned." Only a few are dismissed with good reason.
The majority of our culture is based around a trial-and-error program tested and proven over the course of thousands of years. Whatever your thoughts on God and religion, it cannot be dismissed that the Bible has had a profound cultural impact for centuries, even millennia. It would be dismissed easily and quickly from society if the teachings in it were completely flawed, worthless, or dismiss-able.
Gender stereotypes, while not wholly comprehensive, are both voluntary and beneficial. Toxic stereotypes result when someone who can very clearly see and define benefits with little or no cost to the things that are important to them, and ignore it in favor of hatred or apathy.
The recent movement to remove stereotypes is (along with many other things) associated with rising levels of mental illness. It would be foolish to assume a causal relationship, but it would also be idiotic to presume that more illness is merely being reported.
They have descended beneath the social expectations in spite of recent scientific findings, as well as many forms of empirical and Platonic reasoning, for the purpose of attention, advertisement, and capitalistic benefit. They are not immoral, but we as consumers should investigate our beliefs and what messages we intend to send to future generations.
The destruction of the fundamental unit of the family? Devastating, with nothing like it seen before, and not it a good way.

The_White_Queen · Answer

Why not but who will buy it? Seems silly though if the same social justice warriors & feminists are saying the reason fewer girls choose Stems as a career is because they grow up playing with toys for girls like dolls. I'm sure gender neutral Barbie will sell as well as body positive (fat) barbie lol

The_FallenOne · Answer

😤🙏 No.
Why can't kid toys just be toys? Why do liberals have to force LGBTQ behavior down everyone's throat? Why do they have to force everyone to accept and like the LGBTQ community? Why can't they just accept the fact that they can't force everyone on this planet to like them, agree to their way of life, or not discriminate against them? Men, women, every religion, and every race on the face of earth has been discriminated against in some shape or form. So what makes the LGBTQ entitled to shoving their way of down people's esophagus?🤔
How difficult is it to understand that you cannot force acceptance? Just like racism, religious prejudice and so on it takes time. Back in the day people didn't need to announce that they were gay or trans. They just lived their lives in silence just like everyone else. Why can't it still be like that?

TheMadAsshatter85 · Answer

How about giving poor Ken a dick?

BTW- Representation of minority groups is cool. Fine. Awesome. Dandy... Demanding equal screen time is silly... 10% of the population wanting 25% of screen time doesn't make sense. Even further- in many situations that thought process skews shows/movies from reality... In theory yeah cool it's great... but... is it realistic? ... Funny to see how many female cops/lawyers/nameanyprofessionwhereit'soverwhelminglylopsided there are in TV shows/Movies... Not saying it's bad or wrong... Just saying, that's not realistic and people notice when asses are being kissed to be PC.

yoshi_wanna_ask · Answer

I hate it. A persons gender is a unique special part of them, something they're born with. If they want to provide people (who, lets face it, are already adults) with the ability to custom order these dolls, sure, great, fine, they're adults. But for kids who are still figuring out who they are and how the world works? No thanks. It's bad enough that the guy dolls are so massively misrepresented and under-represented in their line as it is and now to pull more money and market points out of the parents they want to appropriate an issue like this? That's like McDonald's releasing a diet menu.

stardust101 · Answer

I think it’s great, who says that only girls can play with dolls? Gender neutrality means that “roles” for men and women aren’t just for men or women. It’s not about physically changing your gender as a person. For example, women can be car mechanics and men can be nurses. It’s expanding the mind to be more accepting of role reversals, not gender reversals. Teaching small kids about transgenders is irrelevant to what the gender neutral doll is advertising. It’s saying that boys can play with dolls too if they want to instead of secretly wanting to and being shamed for it if they do. That’s probably men aren’t equipped like women are to take care of their own children. Because society and people like you are not accepting of it.

doublenb14 · Answer

I think the whole gender neutral topic is retarded. People are born either a boy or a girl. Once someone becomes an adult and decides ON THEIR OWN that they want to ACT like the opposite sex then go right ahead. Doing things like this though or adding transgender characters to children's movies is just wrong. It's not making children feel more comfortable seeing transgender people, all it is doing is influencing children to question what their gender is. A man who cuts off his penis to become a woman will ALWAYS be a man who cut off his penis. It doesn't make you a woman! Doing this to children is wrong and in all honesty it is child abuse. This has to stop, it makes me sick!

andreasderjuengere · Answer

The world itself isn't gender neutral. Why should we 'teach' kids a lie?
Mattel does not give a shit about ethics or human 'values' --- they only care for maximum profit.
I stick with my teddy bears (made by some anonymous company).

Mattel is looking to redefine stereotypes by releasing a new gender-neutral doll for all children. Thoughts?

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

God these people are stupid. Its going to fail miserablly and they will deserve all the damage they do to their brand. Their is no gender neutrality (gender is biological, we are wired for gender and we see it even in other primates) so the audience they are marketing their toys to are non children SJWs who don't care about the product. That's like when Gillette decided to release the commercial that did nothing but bash men despite the fact that their customer base is entirely male. They can do it, I just don't understand why? Some one has got to have looked at this and realized how idiotically stupid it is, done some kind of market testing or something right? So how the hell did this happen? Idiocy.

lightbulb27 · Answer

I'd like to hear child psychologists views of all this stuff, since they study us. From my viewpoint, having substantial differences helps draw lines of differentiation, and that is helpful. Gender neutral... what the heck is that? I think it ends up in kids being confused as to what they are.

To me, that's the plan, screw up the minds of people so they don't mate... don't want to. good grief what are we doing?

Desconhecida · Answer

They should stop dragging the kids to this idiotic trend

cth96190 · Answer

This is more batshit insane Marxist mind fuckery that is aimed at our children.
Add all Mattel products to your banned list.
Spend your money with a company that does not want to destroy the minds and lives of your children.
I realise that the number of corporations that are not evil is dwindling.

AngelLily · Answer

Kids are going to be confused wondering is the short haired one a girl with short hair and is the boy a dude with long hair.

jayden888 · Answer

Dumb idea. Truth can't bend for people, people have to bend for the truth. Your sex is based on the organs and hormones nature gave you.

A person who is gender neutral is usually because they are either 1. A guy who is castrated, 2. Developmental issues in the prenatal stage.

madgoat · Answer

The millennials either don't care about this stuff (enough to actually buy it) or don't actually believe in it.
It just never seems to sell well from what I've seen, yet the companies that produce it, push it for all its worth. Odd. Maybe it'll become economic in the next decade.

Daniela1982 · Answer

They make dolls more anatomically correct too. Soon they will be having sex and reproducing.

ChiTown33 · Answer

::::::sigh::::::; remeber during the cold war when we thought the Soviet Union, communism, and Nuclear war would be the end of us. Well The evil empire fell and we won... but when i see s*** like this i'm not so sure.

NYCstreetPhotog · Answer

Marketing ploy. It's adaption to a new/evolving market. The whole premise of blue for boys and pink for girls is a complete marketing ploy from the 50s in order to drive sales. This is nothing more than that.

leahzrc · Answer

I think that they can make a doll that doesn't fit a gender stereotype but the children can decide for themselves whether it's a boy or a girl, don't tell them that it's a "gender neutral"

MissKittyz · Answer

Honestly, the only cool part about it is that when I was a kid, I'd had to cut off my barbies hair to pretend they were boys cause there was almost no guy dolls back in the day. At least now, the doll can be a girl when I want her to and a guy on other times. But if I was introducing that doll to my child, I wouldn't fucking call it gender neutral. Just tell them that the doll is kinda 2 in 1. She can be a girl or a boy lol

MrOracle · Answer

I predict that capitalism will solve this problem. The dolls will be on clearance in the spring and the line will be quietly discontinued. And Mattel may see a larger decline in overall sales from people choosing to buy elsewhere.

Anonymous · Answer

What it boils down to is IF this offends you, or you think it's ridiculous, or you have strong views on strictly having 2 genders alone----this is not the doll for you, your family, or your kids however, you aren't the only person seeing this or the only parent. This doll is for the parents who want to raise their children without gender labels and I say, let them be. No one gets to decide what's good for you or your family or how you raise your kids but you as a parent. I just passed by a toy aisle the other day and they had a barbie with a prosthesis and they have plus size and tall and petite barbies now and it comes in all different skin tones to reflect the people that live in this world and there are people in this world who don't want gender stereotypes so now they have dolls for themselves or their kids. Is the world coming to an end because of it...no.

Luijo · Answer

I mean, is not like barbie has a vagina anyways. at this point they'll say that barbie is a trans and ken is her bi couple and the little girl is a lesbian, but i don't know if a little 4yo kid should know about those things and that is the kind of people that will be playing with those toys 4yo kids, sound like the idea of a pedophile to pervert kids and make them more intrested into sex lol

Anonymous · Answer

Utter and Complete nonsense, what's the point? teaching kids that there is more that 2 genders? that's bullshit !! every freaking person knows that there is only 2 genders period. the people that identifies otherwise... why exactly should a child know what you identifies with? they don't even care (nobody actually does) !!!

hahahmm · Answer

Retarded. Less than 1% of people claim to be trans. Even if we believe it’s not a mental disorder (in most cases) that means if you raise your kid as trans there’s a 99% chance you’re wrong and abusing the kid.

DizzyDesii · Answer

I saw that tacky shit last week. My son is not playing with barbies regardless

SweetDisaster · Answer

I want to know what happen when a toy was just a toy for kids having fun and 69 was just a number, and the word black was just a color and the color blue was for boys and pink for girls. When everything was never throw out there out of propotion.

AuroraRoseat · Answer

I think it's interesting because it will allow children to dress them how they want. Unfortunately, gender stereotypes are already instilled into children at a very young age so while this is a step in the right direction, stopping the perpetuation of harmful stereotypes is the right way to go. These kids might adopt the "traditional" way of thinking because that is what they are taught is "right" (men wear pants and women wear skirts etc.).

SkipStop · Answer

Saw this last week. I am always surprised how these liberals can get stupider and stupider. Maybe I should just stop. There is no end to their stupidity.

AlaeTenebris · Answer

I think it's kinda stupid, kids don't care about this stuff. And when they're actually at an age where they do care (puberty and such), what they need is guidance, not for a corporation to be making dolls without gender.

Ellie-V · Answer

I don’t get some of the negativity towards this.
At the end of the day, no one is forcing anyone to buy it. It’s a damn doll. Who cares?
Some kids will like it, some won’t. 99.99999% of the kids who have toys aren’t paying for it themselves, therefore the parents and adults of the world shouldn’t really care since this is something that is in their control by default.

BeMuse · Answer

Tranny dolls huh? That’s a small market... They make up 0.6% of the population and are less likely to have children. I’m glad I don’t own stock in their company. That’s a failure of business leadership.

Anonymous · Answer

My kids will only play with black toys and if I have a daughter black female toys. This gender-neutral stuff is some white people with to much time on their hands.
There's only boys and girls and being gay is a choice . you don't have to like it but it is facts

Harmseygrace · Answer

Geez Louise. Can you get anymore ridiculous? I bet someone will find a way.

ThisDudeHere · Answer

On the one hand, it is their right to release whatever kind of product they want to release, so long as it abides to safety laws. But on the other hand, this goes against gender norms which, whether people like it or not, ensure stability in society.

That is not to say that the norms can not change over time - they can, but to completely get rid of them is the West's hubris.

VaIiant · Answer

Aren't they already gender neutral? I have yet to see a Mattel doll with a penis or vagina.

holograph · Answer

I think it's not a bad thing to have more varieties of dolls for kids. I don't see the harm. I don't have any reason to buy any dolls but if I had a young kid that liked dolls then maybe I would consider buying these. I don't see how they are any worse than any other doll.

AlienParasite · Answer

I personally find the doll is cool but not for the political reasons. I personally don't care about speeches that much, and I find the product ok. I find the doll cute looking, I like that face more than Barbie's, I like that seems quite customizable and I like the type of urban outfits they have. I would probably enjoy playing with this doll if I had 10-12 years old.

Anonymous · Answer

I like them because they look more childlike than a regular barbie or ken doll.
Boys and girls look similar when they're little so the dolls don't really look gender neutral and they have girlish and boyish clothes.
If I had a girl I'd rather give her one of those instead of a bimbo barbie with an impossible figure and also I'd give one of these to a son because I'd rather have him playing with a doll on a car than have him hitting things with a gi joe like my brother.

SentientBrick · Answer

Oh boy! Another company whos going to learn the finer aspects of "Get woke go Broke"

ImagineSketchy · Answer

Weird as all get out. Progressive... But don't boys have action figures and such? I never played with those as a child... I had Legos. Oh the power of an imagination.
I do feel it is unnecessary, but whatever floats them.

desperatelyhungry · Answer

I think it's ridiculous but I'm used to companies pandering so I'm not shocked

CHARismatic110 · Answer

They said there was life on Mars right? 🙄 There's no point in these. Let kids be kids and stop forcing stuff on them.

DovahKittyLady · Answer

My son is allowed to play with any toys he wants. If he wants to play with barbies then I will buy him Barbie and Ken. The doll doesn't need to be gender neutral.

chris0977 · Answer

I don't think Mattel looks to redefine stereotypes any more than Hollywood seeks to redefine music, or movies, only act on whatever's believed profitable, which just happens to be this specific action.

purplepoppy · Answer

Action man is famous for not having a penis. The original gender neutral doll

JimRSmith · Answer

Thoughts are that Mattel can stick these dolls up their arse. Sideways.

broncobryan · Answer

No, there are 2 genders, male and female. Everything else is a mental disorder.

elite665 · Answer

Honestly tho how far will this multi gender shit go I mean be whatever you want just don’t force it down everyone’s throat

name_is_eric · Answer

Propaganda, as always. Our kids are going to grow up in a world, where they're not physically disciplined, their speech is regulated and they have to play according to these sick social norms.
And then they'll wonder why society will collapse.

pooper89 · Answer

baby dolls already look androgynous. This is just sensational journalism, trying to get ratings and reactions from people. This is how media controls the country.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Why don't we release a Siamese twin doll so we don't make those people feel that they are unusual? The world has gone mad!

Massageman · Answer

I noticed they only used females in the Time execs in the Time piece. I'm offended.
"Dolls re for everyone" is not a new concept. Marketing them as switchable IS.
We won't be supporting Mattel in this endeavor.

ylliB · Answer

The Lady Boy Doll. It was only a matter of time. When the machines take over it will have already become a gender-less society. Even as an old bastard i enjoy the genders, would not care to live without gender. Shame on Mattel, they have sold out already. Oh i got that wrong they can't sell out because it is they who are selling us what we do not need. See all you trannies at the FEMA camp, bye.

Anonymous · Answer

I think they're cool. Realistic looking dolls, that look like kids. Parents dont have to spend a bajillion dollars on different "gendered" dolls because the kid wants a boy doll or girl. The kids can make them whatever they want them to be. Blank canvass dolls.

Anonymous · Answer

Tbh, this doesn't really affect me and when I have a kid I'd rather have them choose their own toys as soon as they're old enough to do so. I love the little doll clothes though, I've always found them really cute and sweet

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

This was already done in the 80's! Wokeopoly is a bigger deal..

Jersey2 · Answer

If they keep doing things like that, there won’t be any children in the future. This goes for the nonsense coming from Disney too.

imbeingsneaky · Answer

That's kind of disturbing. Plus there are more girls who like pretty dolls and not butch dolls.

Shahax · Answer

Who's gonna buy them? Boys still dont really play with dolls

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