Six-year-old schools Hasbro on gender equality

Nov 21, 2012 02:21

When Jennifer O'Connell's six-year old daughter was playing the Hasbro board game "Guess Who?" with her brothers, she noticed something was a little off ( Read more... )

guess who, mansplaining, sexism, gender, children

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MOD NOTE lickety_split November 21 2012, 16:26:50 UTC
A post like this demands a photograph of... something.

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Re: MOD NOTE luminescnece November 21 2012, 16:35:03 UTC
All I could find was this picture of a hawk with a knife. But I found it by typing "Mother daughter epic winning" into google images.


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Re: MOD NOTE shhh_its_s3cr3t November 21 2012, 16:58:59 UTC
Appropriate!!! :D

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Re: MOD NOTE lickety_split November 21 2012, 17:30:55 UTC
DYING OMG

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69love_songs November 21 2012, 16:30:48 UTC
I just saw this on twitter! My mind was blown by that first response by Hasbro.

And the six year old has a point, too. Go mother/daughter team!

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lickety_split November 21 2012, 16:35:42 UTC
On the bright side though, this will probably go viral and the company might be forced to address this.

And there's nothing more glorious than seeing a huge corporation have to submit to public opinion after making a big stink about sticking to their guns.

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halfshellvenus November 21 2012, 19:11:58 UTC
And there's nothing more glorious than seeing a huge corporation have to submit to public opinion after making a big stink about sticking to their guns.

Haha! Exactly! Especially when the "questioner" is correct and the corporation is just too stupid and entrenched to see it. Oh, they'll see it all right-- but after it costs them a lot of bad PR.

Scha.Den.Freu.De. It's getting a workout this year...

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moonbladem November 21 2012, 16:46:39 UTC
What an awesome kid! You go girl!

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shhh_its_s3cr3t November 21 2012, 17:00:43 UTC
That's simply awesome. I wish more parents would take the time to type stuff out for their kids. Let the children be heard - they aren't dumb like most adults I know and most adults I don't know.

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mysid November 21 2012, 17:05:10 UTC
The kid is right; if you play the game as a female character, you always lose. (And yes, that's based on mathematical probability.) My kids figured that out pretty darn quickly and never play as a female character. They much prefer their deluxe version of the game in which they can play as monsters, animals, or even as household appliances. I'm surprised Hasbro didn't try to up-sell them to that version.

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lickety_split November 21 2012, 17:32:04 UTC
The Pokemon version of Guess Who is EPIC, especially if you play with people who ask questions like, "Can your character learn Blizzard???"

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hellaine November 21 2012, 19:13:36 UTC
wait where is this

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hellaine November 21 2012, 19:14:33 UTC
uhg found it on amazon but at 50 bucks haha. my kid would love this! time to pull some extra work shifts i guess :(

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