TELL US: Should Hasbro Make a 'Gender Neutral' Easy-Bake Oven?
Some big-name chefs and a New Jersey girl are leading the fight for gender-equality in children's toys. What do you think about this issue?
The Easy-Bake Oven has been a favorite childhood toy since it was first introduced by the company Kenner in 1963. But a new campaign is advocating for this toy to be made in colors suitable for girls and boys.
New Jersey resident McKenna Pope, age 13, wants to see the toy's current manufacturer offer the Easy-Bake Oven in more "gender neutral" colors.
Young Pope will meet with the toy's manufacturers, Rhode Island-based toy maker Hasbro, and advocate this idea, reports The Providence Journal.
The Easy-Bake Oven is currently only offered in pink and purple. Pope would like to see the toy oven also made in colors suitable for boys.
She's not alone in the campaign. Celebrity chefs Bobby Flay, Manuel Trevino and other chefs are backing Pope's petition for a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven.
We want to know what you think about this issue. Should Hasbro make the Easy-Bake Oven available in gender-neutral colors? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below!
Michael Fleming
11:40 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
EEE gads! Social engineering comes to Toyland. Let's leave the kids out of our 21st century angst, and let them grow up with traditional toys without muddling their brains with Political correctness. There are many male chefs that found their way into fine carreers without this nonsense. What's next..."gender neutral" clothing just in case some little boy might be gay? Cripes...leave the kids and their childhoods alone. They'll figure out who they are when they get old enough to know what they are soon enough without over thinking adults muddying the waters for them early in life.
Michael Fleming
11:10 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
LMP-
You make good points. Obviously, this whole subject isn't actually a big dear. ONE kid asks about a different color easy bake oven and it becomes a national controversy? If a kid wrote and asked M ans M's to make their candy a different color, would anyone even be talking about this? Or if I asked Ford to make a zebra stripped Mustang, would it reach the patch conversation boards? Naw.
If there is a big demand for "boy colored" ovens, I say the company can decide if that is worth retooling their plant in China somewhere. But if its just one kid?
Well ...They come in pink. I say get over it. If he feels strongly about it...tell dad to buy some spray paint.