More on CWA vs. Barbie
Posted on | January 6, 2006
So the men over at Concerned Women for America still have their panties in a twist over the Barbie website. They had previously gone after Barbie because a poll on the official website had three options for the respondent’s gender: “I’m a Boy”, “I’m a Girl”, and “I Don’t Know”. CWA’s male spokesmen felt that this would cause children to feel some “gender confusion”. Of course they also claimed that this insidious campaign to promote gender confusion was aimed at kids aged 4-8 because the person who discovered the site at CWA failed to actually use the scroll bar to see the poll ages started at 4 and ended with 70+. So much for only targeting the children.
Barbie’s webmasters claimed it was just a typographical error and that the option was supposed to read “I Don’t Want to Say” which is a perfectly legitimate response to have in there. The poll has since been corrected to reflect that. But that, of course, is not good enough for CWA. Because a conscious desire not to report their gender to the website is what leads you down the pathway towards Gender Identity Disorder. What about a person who does not wish to disclose their race/ethnicity to a website? I guess, by CWA’s standards, they must secretly feel shame and confusion about it. Maybe it will be so confusing to them, they will turn into Clayton Bigsby, the black white supremacist Dave Chappelle showed us.
Jeremy over at Good As You made a very valid point with his images on a post relating to this. If a third gender option on the Barbie Poll is such a danger to causing gender confusion, why are they not having a temper tantrum over the fact that Ken and Barbie cannot provide a proper role model because the Ken doll lacks his hoo-hoo-dilly and Barbie lacks her cha-cha? Maybe CWA should petition Mattel to make a pair of dolls based with Ron Jeremy as Ken and Jenna Jameson as Barbie.
Bob Knight goes on to whine about how CWA has been criticized heavily for attacking Barbie and mentions Jerry Falwell and the Tinky Winky scandal. You deserve it because you made a big deal out of nothing. Funny thing is Bob tries to cover for his and CWA’s stupidity about the age range by accusing Barbie’s webmasters of changing the age range too. Sorry Bobby, but the scroll bar was there the day you posted this.
What I find the most funny/disturbing about all of this is how CWA automatically assumes an adult meaning as well as their staunch dogmatism of strict and severe gender rolls.
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January 6th, 2006 @ 3:59 pm
“So much for only targeting the children.”
Well I for one am afraid for our nation’s elderly. My god, man. Think of the confusion if a 70 year old starts to doubt his or her gender identity! Families will crumble! Grandpa will dress in drag! Andy Griffith in a bustier!
I can’t go on.
Julie
P.S. I love your blog.
January 7th, 2006 @ 2:25 am
If you gay people wouldn’t work so hard to shock those who are not gay I think people would be quicker to accept you.
January 7th, 2006 @ 2:27 am
Sorry Ron, but nothing we do that is any more “shocking” than when a heterosexual couple does it.