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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ned@mstdn.ca ("Ned Yeung") wrote:
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- asexual-musings writes: things I have seen/experienced working in a toy store: « a customer asking me if boys like coloring « a customer telling her daughter she can't give out ice cream stickers for party favors because there will be boys there « an older couple laughing about how there’s a pink toy sword because a boy would never play with a pink toy sword (because i guess boys can't like pink and girls don’t play with toy swords. also it wasn't even pink it was red lol) « a customer refusing to buy a snail robot kit for his nephew because it was “too cute for a boy” « a customer sharply reminding me she was buying a gift for a boy when I suggested play food « a customer telling her daughter she needed ta pick a different birthday card for her friend because the one she chose had a pink envelope (her friend was a boy) « a customer asking what boy would like for valentine's day instead of the stuffed dogs she was getting for the girls « a customer getting upset when my coworker used blue ribbon on a gift bag because the present was for a girl « a customer saying a toy guitar was “too girly" for her grandson, based only on the fact that the box had a picture of a girl playing with it (the guitar was red with yellow music notes) but yeah, trans people have some real weird ideas about gender (remote)
