**Official** Physicists are freaks and very weird dudes LC Thread

[otatop]

It would force Hasbro to make a special Mr. Potato Head line just to sell in Dumbfuckistan, obviously.

[NotBruceZ]

I feel like there is going to be a market for buying Mr. Potato Heads with the the idea of keeping them in their boxes in mint condition and selling them to deplorables ten years from now who want their child to have the gendered potato experience.

[mosdef]

They will be enraged about something else within 10 hours. They don’t really care about Mr. Potato Head.

[chupacabre]

Also caused a famine in Ireland. Absolute WOAT tuber AINEC.

[hey_you]

This is what happens when you leave your potatoes unguarded.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1262774163435126787?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1262774163435126787|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fdonald-trump-virginia-potatoes_n_5ec4b313c5b6956f416a1114

[poopypants]

[NotBruceZ]

I don’t think Potato Head should be so vulgar as to allow kids to affix genitals to it’s nether regions, but what about an option for a bulge or some cameltoe?

[VoteForSocialists]

what took you so long?

[VoteForSocialists]

if they want a gendered potato, they could just carve a dildo out of a potato with a child-safe peeler, or a knife like the forefathers had to.

[VoteForSocialists]

omg i remember we all wondered what he was talking about at the time, but now i realize he just confused virginia with iowa or idaho.

[zikzak]

Is feigning outrage over the degendering of the Potato Head family really any worse than stoking that outrage in the first place as a cynical marketing stunt?

[jmakin]

The funny thing is, mr. Potato head is still going to be sold. With the mister and everything. They just changed the brand name so it could be inclusive of mrs potatohead as well.

They’re getting upset about something that didn’t even happen.

[otatop]

@jmakin

They’re getting upset about something that didn’t even happen.

Very unusual for the typically sane Republican party.

[All-InFlynn]

There’s a case to be made that everything being Mister this and Mister that re-inforces sexist attitudes and hence that changes like this can undermine that and so contribute to a good outcome. If you buy that, obviously the outrage is worse.

To be clear though, they’re not ‘degendering the Potato Head family’, they’re just changing the main brand from ‘Mister Potato Head’ to ‘Potato Head’.

[MysteryConman]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/23/danny-glover-explains-why-hes-alabama-amazon-workers?utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1gg7sslGRUmaJtCWN_0OH9Gd2vBDMFQT5Rdo44Gc3pCrxUBGymhH8nbSo#Echobox=1614098163

“We’re seeing all the draconian, ugly ways that corporations demonize the idea of organized labor,” Glover said in an interview with Inequality.org on February 22 before heading off to show support for the workers at the plant gate and in meetings with local officials and media. “We simply have to stop glorifying the billionaires who are trying any way they can to disempower workers.”

“These Amazon workers are building on a long history,” he said. “In the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century, for example, you had the cotton pickers strike and the Alabama coal miners’ strike. And there were the unionized sleeping car porters who then went to the south and became instrumental in the civil rights movement.”

[wirelessgrinder]

speaking of this amazon thing, at least here in Birmingham on Twitch streaming there are anti union amazon ads on every fucking day. They started off just saying its a great place to work but pretty quickly changed to amazon workers who don’t want a union on video expressing their thoughts as to why and they’re all garbage reasons. It ends with someone being like “lets stay a family and vote against the union” lol man just lol

[zikzak]

I don’t buy that because a) nobody was asking for this change over a stupid toy, and b) I’m pretty god damn sure Hasbro dgaf about patriarchal gender norms. It’s performative bullshit by all involved. This is our 21st century post-everything world.

[Smacc_25]

@jmakin

Believe me it’s just a post in the LC thread for us but this is causing absolute shockwaves through the deplorable twitterverse right now.

Dam… Did it start over there or did our bastard media start it here… or their coordinating their shit.

[All-InFlynn]

They don’t have to care about it for it to potentially contribute to something worthwhile. If we stipulate that it does, then like I said, it’s obviously better to do something good for self-interested reasons than to oppose it for whatever reason, self-interested or otherwise.

I’m not a huge proponent of the theory, but I don’t consider it ridiculous, either.

[Smacc_25]

Ahhh perfect for today as I seem to have the swearing bug, did I mention bastards yet.

https://mobile.twitter.com/thejuicemedia/status/1365076419760414720

https://mobile.twitter.com/thejuicemedia/status/1365077281450852354