This actually happened to me when I worked at McDonald's. Guy wanted a toy for boys. I listed all the stuff we had and asked to pick. None of the toys were really gendered at all. He kept insisting that I should just pick a toy for boys.
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Yes sir. A toy for boys. Are we speaking of a genderfluid boy maybe or an honest god-fearing, completely heteronormative boy - no shame in that, sir, it's not your fault.
"Bless your little heart sir. I know it's not easy choosing the "boy toy" when one isn't pink. But I need to reach deep down into those man genes and deduce which one is the boy toy. If you choose poorly then you and your kids are super gay now. Dems da rules sir!."
Well obviously the boy toys are the ones I use my penis to play with.
Coukd also be for the they/them's though.
This triggers a memory!
Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the "girl or boy toy with your happy meal?" question. We were both girls so we automatically answered "girl toy." After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said "one of each please" we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.
I can feel the lingering pain you still carry about having these 4 useless Jasmine and not a single Aladdin when reading this.
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Some will see this and think this is a sign of progress, that we are transitioning into a society where your genitals don't determine what toys you get to play with. Others will look at this and think the world is slipping in anarchy and moral decay.
Whats wrong with anarchy? Talk all the shit you like; it works better than kleptocracy or fascism.
Some of those "morals" need to decay.
There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn't learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.
There was a moral panic in the 19th century where people were outraged that young girls from good families kept reading novels. They said it would lead to social self-isolation and bookishness and distract from apropriate activities like knitting, socialising, looking pretty and smiling.
And young women were thought to be largely unable to discern fact from fiction and hold their gentlemen callers to the same standards as the men in their novels. And you know, women having standards... the 18th century couldn't have that.
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I'm glad I wasn't sober when someone incidentally compared happy meal toys to the invention of movable type.
I wish they just didn't give out crappy plastic toys at all.
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Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?
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I'd be a great boy toy ;) One at a time please, ladies.
I know entire places where thirsty people would offer to be boy toys, but something tells me they'd change their minds instantly upon seeing them.
So... give them a Ken? Lol
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