ET Williams comments on the girl who is petitioning Hasbro to create gender neutral Easy Bake Ovens so her little brother can play with one. I agree with Mr. Williams, and am thankful that my boys have never asked for an Easy Bake Oven.
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Maybe someone who wants a gender neutral Easy Bake Oven could just find one of the old ones like I had as a kid. It was an ugly green color like this one.
@lonelycon I always used my sisters. (but of course, that was when you could use a 100 watt bulb)
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People freak out over the silliest things these days. A boy playing with a toy that is pink won’t make him less of a boy and a girl playing with a blue toy won’t make her less of a girl. My kids know better than to judge based on color.
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Bwahahahaha!!! E.T. is fast becoming a top editorial of mine. He’s exactly right; just watch HGTV start pushing gender neutral nurseries and kids’ rooms and even colors. It’ll come just like he said if we don’t resist this intolerance and rubbish. Stand up or be pushed over.
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They had easy bake ovens for boys about 5the years ago. I had thought about getting one because I have two boys and they liked to pretend to cook like their dad. It obviously wasn’t a big seller, though, or they’d still be making them.
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Silliness….just plain silliness. Gender Nuetral = Demasculization of the boys. PC silliness that helped lead to school shootings.
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If grown men cook–and I’m pretty sure most do, these days–I see nothing wrong with young boys pretending to cook. (…or helping out in the kitchen with real meal preparation, for that matter.)
Zilla’s right about the color thing…but it’s so ingrained in this culture, I can see why one would want to avoid that fight (especially when there are people like the guy in the video, still getting so worked up (and dare I say, emotional?) about boys playing at assuming “female” roles like cooking. (If this is the way he actually lives, his wife must be thrilled to be doing all the cooking and cleaning and laundry and childcare in their home.)
That said, we bought one of these new easy-bake ovens for our niece last Christmas. NO ONE needs the version they make today. The light bulb was less safe, but the narrow slit through which kids are supposed to insert the baking tin full of mix insures a complete mess. My sister-in-law let my niece try it two or three times, then cleaned it all up, packed it back up, and donated it to her church’s daycare program. (And she suspects that they didn’t use it either, but sold it at a garage sale fundraiser.) As the one’s who gave the gift, it was kinda disappointing…but having been there for at least one of the baking sessions, we understood completely.
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hey – when I was a kid I used the oven in the kitchen. Need a real oven for those cranberry oatmeal cookies.
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I didn’t like the easy bake oven because there were hardly any things I could bake with it.
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Hasbro is planning to produce a silver-and-black Easy Bake Oven for boys–I guess it’s supposed to look like those expensive ovens in bachelor quarters.
These days, more and more young Americans are remaining single. And so boys ought to learn how to cook.
And if we’re going to have “bachelor” toys for boys, how about “Barbie dolls for boys”:
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