A Messed Up Toy Story: Mr. Potato Head Is Now Gender Neutral And Marries Other Mr’s

Today the toymaking giant Hasbro announced its rebranding of its famous and best selling toy of all time, Mr. Potato Head. Only now, he will no longer be called “Mr.”

According to Fast Company, The toy giant Hasbro is rebranding its iconic Mr. Potato Head toy by dropping the “Mr.” from the name. On the surface, it may seem like a subtle shift, but it is designed to break away from traditional gender norms, particularly when it comes to creating Potato Head families—how toddlers frequently play with the toy, according to Hasbro’s research. But starting this fall, when the new brand is unveiled, kids will have a blank slate to create same-sex families or single-parent families. It’s a prime example of the way heritage toy brands are evolving to stay relevant in the 21st century.

The sweet spot for the toy is two to three years old. Kids like dressing up the toy, then playing out scenarios from their life. This often takes the form of creating little potato families, because they’re learning what it means to be in a family.

Kimberly Boyd. A SVP and GM at Hasbro

Culture has evolved. Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand currently exists—with the “Mr.” and “Mrs.”—is limiting when it comes to both gender identity and family structure.

Fast Company says, The brand’s solution is to drop the gendered honorific title altogether. This means the toys don’t impose a fixed notion of gender identity or expression, freeing kids to do whatever feels most natural to them: A girl potato might want to wear pants and a boy potato might wear earrings. Hasbro will also sell boxed sets that don’t present a normative family structure. This approach is clever because it allows kids to project their own ideas about gender, sexuality, and family onto the toy, without necessarily offending parents that have more conservative notions about family.

Elizabeth Segran, writer for Fast Company, additionally had this to say:

This kind of freedom is not that common in children’s toys. In recent years, some heritage brands have evolved to keep up with the values of many of today’s parents; Mattel has worked to make Barbie dolls more ethnically diverse and size-inclusive, for instance. But few have pushed the boundaries on gender or sexuality. The storylines around Barbie and American Girl involve heterosexual marriage. And the many Disney princesses that fill our lives marry princes or stay clear of marriage altogether.

This can be confusing to kids who live in progressive milieus, where they are exposed to many different family structures. At my daughter’s school, for instance, kids appear to be constantly trying to make sense of how the heteronormative narratives around them square with their everyday reality, where some families have two moms or two dads, and others have a single parent. When my daughter plays dress-up in class, she sometimes marries a boy and sometimes marries a girl; it feels strange that not all toys give her this freedom.

But soon, she’ll be able to plan the Potato Head wedding of her dreams. And she’ll get to decide exactly what that couple looks like.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: [27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. [28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; [29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, [30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, [31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: [32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Romans 1:26-32

The recruitment of the youth into the perverse and vile LGBTQ+ lifestyle presses on. My question is, Will the famous “Toy Story” franchise have to be rewritten and reedited to remove Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head from the movies? After all, these “gender pronouns” might be too offensive and not up to par with this “evolving” culture.

Insane doesn’t do this justice. The poor youth are just being attacked and pecked at from every angle anymore. Over two decades ago when I was a young child, this would have NEVER been accepted. Now its normal.

Have you ever noticed how the conservative media traditionally blasts this stuff, but then subsequently talks themselves in a circle by lowering the standards every single time, and then the new lower bar is repeated by the masses that view these outlets? I do not know how many times these times people do this, but this is one of the main reasons why more and more sodomy is pushed and accepted. Many on the political right purpurate the wickedness by willingly handing over more and more inches while the progressive left takes miles in return.

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