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Unnecessarily gendered products

We’ve all seen stupidly gendered toys and clothes. Buy why stop there when you can apply stereotypes to every product imaginable? Bread. Eggs. Glue. Of course we need separate versions of them for men and women. My «favourite» is the bible for boys, advertised with the promise: «Discover gross and gory bible stuff». A Twitter thread full of examples – find your own favourite.


From Weekly Filet #285, in March 2020. More on:

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