{"id":39473,"date":"2015-12-30T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/get-with-the-times-hasbros-why-are-your-toys\/"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:50:24","slug":"get-with-the-times-hasbros-why-are-your-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/get-with-the-times-hasbros-why-are-your-toys\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Get with the times, HasBros. Why are your toys gendered at all any more? Are they sex toys you need certain genitalia to use? And why are the shitty, sexed up, bullshit toys labeled for girls, while the cool Star Wars ones are labeled for boys? You\u2019re literally setting artificial boundaries for the play time of children. Not cool.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Disney itself has done a better job at putting Rey out there. I was able to easily find a men\u2019s shirt with Rey front and center on Disney\u2019s online store, and they\u2019ve consistently put Rey and Phasma toys out there \u2014 even if others, looking at you Target, have entire toy aisles devoid of female characters. The photo above? I couldn\u2019t find one female character. Not One. (Seriously, knowing what we know now about Rey, take a closer look at the toy aisles and ask yourself if you could imagine Luke or Han toys being underrepresented or missing altogether in the \u201980s. And don\u2019t give me the \u201cOh, they were just waiting for the movie so as not to spoil it\u201d line of defense. No, we\u2019ve seen this over and over again. It\u2019s no mistake. Girls get the shaft in the toy department, because toy company executives \u2014 and here they should be called out by name as the assholes they are \u2014 somehow can\u2019t fathom that boys and girls can have the same interests and imaginations. Over and over again, girls are sold sex appeal. Boys are sold adventure and hero worship.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeadamick.com\/2015\/12\/rey-is-not-a-role-model-for-little-girls-major-spoilers-ahead\/\">Rey is not a role model for little girls (major spoilers ahead) Mike Adamick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>all for Rey, and Rey for all<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get with the times, HasBros. Why are your toys gendered at all any more? Are they sex toys you need certain genitalia to use? And why are the shitty, sexed up, bullshit toys labeled for girls, while the cool Star Wars ones are labeled for boys? You\u2019re literally setting artificial boundaries for the play time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537,358,1943,1946,1944,1945,560],"class_list":["post-39473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","tag-culture","tag-rey","tag-spoilers","tag-star-wars","tag-the-force-awakens","tag-toy","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-agF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}