The world today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCG3WgYxPkI
>>83111621
>Still watching Robot Chicken in 2016?
C'mon anon, stop having shit taste. Robot Chicken hasn't been enjoyable in a long time. If ever, as Seth Green is an awful faggot.
>>83111725
Did you even watch the clip?
did they get the real Tom Hanks for that sketch? He's been in [as] stuff before like in Adam Scott's The Greatest Event in Television History so I might believe it. I'd just be disappointed in him is all.
>>83111796
They got his brother, Jim Hanks
>>83112599
>They got his brother, Jim Hanks
Are you serious?
>He's real
Well damn.
>>83111621
That woodblock is pretty much tumblr.
>>83111621
haven't seen robot chicken in years
this is exactly what a kid would do today
still laughed
I see Robot Chicken can still have its moments
>>83113476
>this is exactly what a kid would do today
Our generation is the last decent right mate?
>>83111621
Fucking Robot Chicken still comes through.
this was grand
>>83112724
came here to post this
>>83112627
Jim Hanks has a contract whereby he plays Woody in all appearances outside of the theater.
>>83112724
no shit
>>83112627
>>83112599
Also Jim Hanks does some stand-in work for Tom.
>>83111621
Geez I fucking hate this mentality
It's really common in post commie countries
LEGO bricks are the most praised toy of all time because "it's creative"
>>83111621
I'm seriously curios how they animated the string so fluidly in stop motion animation
>>83111621
Good skit. Got a chuckle out of me. But I kind of want to buy a Pinko now.
>>83113800
They enchant it with CGI, pretty sure they been doing it for years now.
>>83113743
>hating on Lego
Please leave.
Legos are better than most toys
>>83113914
It's not hating but lego praising is so insane
>>83113914
>>83113951
>Autism.
>>83113743
LEGOs are great though. They're a creative tool that can either be assembled into a predesignated shape or improvised with.
That and the addition of minifigures and tools/weapons/accessories really makes them a real "toy" because you can then play within whatever you've made.
>>83114035
I'm sorry your parents didn't love you and gave you megabloks
>>83114035
you should get yours checked out
>>83113951
>>83114052
>Legos
>>83113812
I've tried googling it but it seems it's not a real toy.
>>83111621
Did they use Tom Hanks' brother for this?
>>83114187
Yeah.
>>83113951
>>83113914
Legos are the Borderlands of toys.
>LE ONE BILLION COMBINATIONS
>>83114127
>>83114132
Sorry, unlike you guys; I stopped playing with Legos when my age got double digits.
>>83114139
You're really weirding me out home boy
Everyone I've known since I was a child liked LEGOs. It didn't matter who. Boy, girl, nerd, jock. People I knew from high school were "So hyped" and "Super nostalgic" when they heard about the LEGO movie. People like LEGOs
I think you're the only autist here, good buddy.
>>83114398
Different anon, but I think he's referring to the fact that "LEGOs" isn't a word. They're pretty anal about reminding everyone that the plural is "LEGO bricks"
>>83113812
>>83114151
"Pinko" is a slang term for Commie. They're just making fun of creative brain toys in general.
>>83114398
>Everyone I've known since I was a child liked LEGOs. It didn't matter who. Boy, girl, nerd, jock. People I knew from high school were "So hyped" and "Super nostalgic" when they heard about the LEGO movie. People like LEGOs
That's because the rate of autism in children has skyrocketed. Sorry, you are are still a child in a man's body.
Legos vs. Trains. Which one do you autists like better?
>>83114485
Oh I get it, you're trolling me! Ah, you got me good. You rascal you.
Gosh, I can be such a sucker sometimes.
Since we're on the subject of Robot Chicken sketches, here's a fairly recent one that I liked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5F66JwLq90
>>83114555
invalid
i can make a train out of legos
>>83114624
I love their DC skits.
>>83114555
I used both at the same time
checkmate, athiests
>>83114595
>His autism leaving him unable to comprehend sincerity.
Why am I not surprised.
>>83114821
>I used both at the same time
You're overloading my senses. I need to hit my head against the wall to calm me down.
>>83114624
That one always gets me. I also like the green lantern batman one.
K'Nex>>>> Legos
Fight me.
>>83114395
Ah yes, the "i'm mature for my age" days of 13.
>>83114555
>>83114398
>>83111621
I love how no-one has pointed out how strawman this is.
>Hurrrr look at the stupid liberals who have such a dumb view on the world and hate it when no-one else shares it
There is literally nothing wrong in teaching a child to think outside of the box and not allow itself to be guided by the parameters society demands of it. But that's not the preposition here. The preposition is that anyone wanting to buy their child a toy like this immediately thinks the concept of all other toys are restrictive and therefore inherently bad. Lego is a fantastic toy that few would shit on that used to literally print messages in the 70's saying that allowing kids to be creative and decide upon things for themselves is fine, and no-one shits on Lego for their lefty pinko worldview
Its just like how not every vegan thinks you're a shithead for eating meat. Most that I know just choose not to do so themselves, but you gotta keep your internet pariah memes going, amirite?
But I suppose because its against the Tumblr Lefto boogeyman its ok that its a paper thin strawman for what hippy dippy liberals think.The joke is, I'm not even a leftisit. I voted for rightwing parties in the last 2 elections, the hypocrisy of 4chan just amuses me sometimes
>>83115466
>It's Lego Bricks
Who the fuck cares. Everybody calls them Legos. They're Legos.
>>83115501
I don't know man. Liberal new parents can be some of the most insufferable people on Earth.
>>83114485
>The rate of autism in children has skyrocketed
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not ruseing here
No anon, its just being more properly diagnosed now. Kids with a touch of the 'tism back in the day would just be consigned as being weirdo outsiders because it wasn't correctly diagnosed.
I suppose you believe vaccines are the cause, right?
>>83115537
In Britain at least, nobody calls them Legos. They're Lego. You play with Lego, your friend built a Millennium Falcon out of Lego.
It seems very much an American thing to call them Legos
>>83115578
What's your basis for this?
>>83115501
its just a toy, anon :^)
Funny. I was recently complaining about the gender norms of the toy aisles. Despite the movie being garbage, it is pretty shitty that the new Ghostbusters is in the boys section and Mattel even has a boy modeling the Proton Pack on the box.
Why are girls relegated to toys like fashion dolls and kitchen playsets? Are we indotrinating women to be pretty and stay in the kitchen from young ages? Why are boys the ones expected to have war toys and action figures of neck snapping Superman with giant fists? Are we saying boys are supposed to be violent and always agressive? (That one is of course an opinion many feminist bloggers love to use too.) Why can't we have boys with kitchen playsets? As someone whose grandfathers worked in diners and bakeries cooking, it is insulting. Where are the Guy Fieri and Anthony Bourdain action figures?
Of course even I agree with this sketch making fun of these fru fru hippie dippy ideas about toys like that far in the oposite direction.
>>83114624
god damn mad dog
>>83115771
because kids want it that way
>>83115771
I let my daughter play with whatever the hell she wants. She likes pretty pink princesses, but she also likes toy guns
Who the fuck am I to tell her what toys she can and can't play with?
>>83115859
Kids want it that way because their parents want it that way. Parents want it that way because society does.
Go back just over 100 years and boys typically wore pink and girls blue.
>>83115913
No, it's inborn. Boys want to be boys and girls want to be girls.
Most of the time.
>>83115859
or they have been indoctrinated by their parents and society to think that way?
I remember seeing a teen girl and her mom arguing in the aisle of Marvel and DC toys. The mom was gonna get her young niece a Marvel figure she wanted. The daughter was complaining how there was no way she should do it because superheroes and action figures were for boys. She maybe even sugessed to go look at the princess stuff instead.
>>83114624
Robot Chicken's Superhero specials are always some of their best material.
>>83111621
is that toy real
>>83112627
Did you know he also has a douchebag son who thinks he's a rapper?
>>83115970
But what defines a boy or a girl is literally decided by society. With toys by big companies who make decisions based on what society thinks.
You can't legitimately think that the only reason why boys play with some toys and girls with others is due to some instinctual knowledge to know that a toy gun is a boys toy and a cuddly bunny rabbit is a girls.
I'm not saying I in any way believe in the whole "kids should be raised gender neutral" bollocks, but I am saying you're talking utter shit.
>>83116009
The daughter is a stupid cunt.
All bitches love spiderman
>>83115871
A gun slinging, pink princess sound pretty rad.
>>83111621
>Toy that's vague as fuck and can be used as anything
Didn't Phineas and Ferb already do this joke?
And that's a real thing?
>>83111621
That was satisfying.
>>83116054
I want to know this too. Tried googling it but all comes up is this style website and the definition for pinko.
>>83111621
>asexual space creature
>>83116150
She has an Anna from Frozen dress that she absolutely loves, and I've given her all my old Nerf guns from when I was in uni. Its a rather amusing sight to people when I pop down the shops with her and she's wearing her dress carrying a Nerf Rifle that's comically large for her.
>>83116150
Barbarella?
>>83115970
What does a boy do?
Does he wear a pink dress?
Because they used to do that in the late 1800s a d ewrly 1900s before pink and dresses became girls colors and clothing styles.
It has changed over time.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/?c=y&page=1
Yes. Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.
Yet most of the other shit is stuff projected on the genders by society.
Also, if you say girls shouldn't play with GI Joe toys, that is an insult to every woman who has fought in America's military.
>>83115771
yes we are indoctrinating children by buying them toys and then telling them they can be whatever they want when they grow up
your implying the kids themselves don't have a choice or cant think for themselves at all. that they cant get over gender bullshit at all. I was a boy who played with barbies with one of my friends who was a girl way back. sure I knew it wasn't a boy-toy but that didnt mean i couldnt play with it. Kids buy and large don't put that much thought into bullshit. If a little boy wants to pretend to be a chef he'll pretend to be a chef toys aside.
this sort of shit is all just dumb ass assumptions people make. some one likely just assumed ghostbusters is more male oriented, and people just assume its some big conspiracy to condition childern or some bs. and they assume they can be conditioned against things that they want.
a guy fieri action figure. . . thats some dumbass shit to try and market to kids
>>83114624
That's actually a great Silver Age concept.
>>83116108
>But what defines a boy or a girl is literally decided by society
dont you dare start ignoring biology
society might have its definition of gender but it does not define gender nature does
>>83116306
They do once they get to school and boys who play with barbies are ostracised by their classmates.
The schoolyard is the great leveller in which notions learned from parents are played off against each other to form a general consensus between the kids.
>>83116249
literally no one is saying that
>>83114395
>I'm a mature person, I don't PLAY with those anymore, he said on the comics and cartoon section of the imageboard he frequents to talk about children's cartoons and waifus.
>>83116375
that has absolutely nothing to do with toys or companies or the way things are marketed
that has to do with the parents and whether or not they raise little assholes.
its always the parents fault when it comes down to it
>>83116249
>America's military.
I dont really care about the american military. I did serve with women in the military of my nation. and honestly, I would only have taken two of them into combat.
But in any case, blue or pink does not matter. What does matter is cars and dolls. So to speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaTc15plVs
>>83116349
But I'm not. Boys have penises, girls have vaginas
We're talking about whether toys should have predefined genders mate, try reading the thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol6FGtzXHdc
>>83116462
Toy companies market their toys as to what they think parents will buy just as much as they do to the kids themselves anon.
>>83116496
of course they shoudn't but do they?
they might be marketed one way but that doesnt stop kids from playing with the toys that they want to play
>>83116517
Man, superman is kind of a dick.
>>83113586
I don't know, are you a very young Gen X-er? Because if not, no, your generation is the first worst one.tfw I identify as Generation Y so I won't be associated with the rest of my worthless cohort.
>>83116306
> not wanting kids to take the red Camaro to Flavortown
Now that is some dumbass shit.
Okay. I was mostly joking about boys being taught not to cook. As I said, I had grandfathers who worked in kitchens and bakeries. One even enlisted and worked as a chef in the army during WWII.
So the idea that cooking toys are a girls thing is fucking insulting.
Thankfully at least one of the big two toys companies have fixed things with not just girl targeted EZ Bake Ovens.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/living/hasbro-easy-bake-oven/
>>83116521
youre making so many jumps here that imply something far more nefarious than what is probably going on
that some business man who decides it should be a little boy on the box is intentionally doing so in order to perpetuate gender rolls, when really the guy is just trying to figure out the best way to make money.
marketing does not affect the way people raise their kids or the way their children are.
people consciously make those choices for themselves and are the true crux of the issue.
>>83116667
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC5fqzKxau8
>>83114555
Legos, especially if you're including Bionicles. My brother, cousins and I had loads of fun making up little stories and battles as kids.
I never got why many other autists had such a hard-on for trains or Thomas the fucking tank engine.
>>83116704Some days I kinda want to die.
>>83116685
has the fact that there are few cooking toys oriented towards boys affected the fact that plenty of men still take up a cooking profession?
>>83116694
So what you're saying is that when parents go into a toy shop and see isles of toys ostensibly marketed at girls and aisles ostensibly marketed at boys that that wouldn't colour their judgement?
Most parents don't even consider the gender thing, they just don't want their kids to be seen as being fucking weird or faggots or whatever, they want them to fit in with other children and they know from their childhood that boys play with boys toys and girls with girls, and anyone who sits outside the social norm gets ostracised.
>>83115501
good pointbut i decide you are trash
>>83113800
Probably is filled with wire or breaking bad.
>>83116694
It's a vicious cycle, is the thing.
If marketers could figure out how to sell girl toys to boys, they totally would. But they can't. If parents don't teach a child what they're "supposed" to play with, that child's friends and schoolmates certainly will.
So marketers just go with the flow. But then people see the marketing, assume that's the normal way of things, and just perpetuate the situation
>>83116685
Why has it taken so long for Hasbro to realize that "make snacks in your room" is a concept that appeals to both genders?
>>83116830
you are generalizing every parent
no most parents want their children to be happy
plenty of adults recognize the bullshit and are just going to buy their kids whatever they want.
not saying that there arent parents that dont say "no timmy you cant play with dolls those are for girls" but thats a dying breed. as time goes on those people are going to get less and less and it wont be an issue so it shouldnt be now
>>83116865
this guy gets it
its all about peoples bullshit perceptions of the issue
you just gotta take a stand and say fuck it I'm gonna let my kid play with whatever, and if they get picked on for it I'll be there to help them get through it.
>>83116808
I think thankfully young boys just skip over toys and learn actual cooming from their mothers and fathers.
>>83116694
Do you really think all the ads bombarding people and especially children don't affect them on conscious and subconscious levels? And do you think toy companies and companies that market to kids don't think about bullshit demogrphic tests and what they think sells to girls and boys before spending millions to produce and market products?
Hell, there are entire businesses dedicated to telling marketing assholes what sells to what genders and age groups. There are firms that cook up studies about that shit.
Even movies and cartoons themselves are demographic tested to shit. Was it someone on the Green Lantern toon drew a comic strip about it?
>>83117069
but by being aware of how it "affects" you it doesn't control you
I see ads every day, but I dont go out and buy everything
thats the joke about marketing and why its such a big deal, it only affects people who let it affect them.
strong minded people are not governed by ads or societies normalities. they do what they want because they want to.
>>83117038
Because suits, no matter whether they are in films, comic books, toys, music or whatever are fucking terrified of rocking the boat.
They don't want to be the fall guy behind a concept that went tits up and lost them loads of money, so what they do is they very rigidly stick to a formula that works. Boys like guns and action heroes, girls like playing house.
And the thing is with toys is that big companies will look at how well smaller companies who are more willing to take risks are doing at selling toys to various demographics, but then if because they don't have the resources necessary to properly market something and it goes belly up, its seen as a failure by Hasbro and the like and they don't go for it.
Every now and then someone will take a risk, but we only ever hear about the ones that pay off
>>83111621
It freaks me out because "We are not violent toys" sounds exactly like Tom Hanks
>>83116685
Why doesn't it look like an oven?
>>83117256
If you read the thread you'd know that's because its his brother.
>>83117350
If you ever got off your bull's cock you'd know I don't give a shit
>>83111621
Why did they just paint over a Woody doll's mouth? It looks horrible.
>>83117379
Why you heff to be mad?
>>83117379
You gave enough of a shit to post.
But stay mad
>>83117379
>>83117395
i noticed that too.
probably too much effort to put a little plaster or whatever over it to shape it up
what they need is that freaky japanese woody doll
>>83117395
Do you know how little effort they put in the animation? Most of the budget goes to the celebrity guest stars.
>>83117462
>>83117470
thats the one
>>83117470
this one?
>>83115501
Lego is building blocks. Fucking building blocks. Bricks. You build stuff with them. Massive stuff. Sure, there are all those minimalistic creations, where 5 blocks are supposed to be a ship, but we knew where the real stuff was. Spacecrafts, cars, buildings. And yes, this message about imagination, freedom and childlike wonder is bunch of crap, but at least they've got something to show for it. All those indie hipster double latte leftist liberal feminism new age imagination inducing border free toys, which is see fairly often, are not far from this Pinko shit. Slabs of wood with knick knacks attached, or something made from enviromentally safe plastic that looks like a child with autism made it. Yes, you can imagine it's anything. But it's in you imagination. It's not a pirate ship because of imagination. It's a pirate ship, because it looks like a ship, and has pirates in it.
>inb4 someone brings up make believe
Pretending a stick is a sword is not the same as this bullcrap. At least until somebody claims it was perfectly designed by a world famous wanker, and sells it for god know how much. The difference is in beign a tryhard.
>>83115578
If it's any consolation, it's literally impossible to be born to over-concerned affluent liberal parents and not be autistic.
Unless you're not actually autistic, don't worry you'll "Grow out of it" and become an insufferable tumblr blogger at 18, with fully progressive opinions. Otherwise you'll be nanny'd for life.
>>83117570
So what you're saying is, that anon is wrong, its not a strawman?
Because that was the crux of his argument, the point of his post.
>>83117623
Autism is a neurological disorder you fucking idiot, it can't be taught.
>>83115501
What is this social justice bullshit?
>>83117658
I'm just mad as hell because of this thread. I haven't seen this much cancer since /lgbt/ opened up.
>>83116349
>Muh speshul snowflake gender identity that I as BORN with
>How dare you disrespect that I was born biologically a Quasi-panromatic demi-girl with an innate Frogkin gender
>>>/tumblr/
But seriously, why do both proponents of this push the idea that boys and girls are biologically different inside their brain stuff. There's more difference between different cultures and individuals than there is between sexes.
It seems like it was just a dumb narrative made up to push the whole "But I'm really a GIRL inside" mentality.
>>83113476
>this is exactly what a kid would do today
No play with a overpriced garbage toy? Great
>>83117715
Seems like a pretty calm and reasonable exchange of different ideas, all things considering.
and no, I don't fucking go on tumblr or reddit.
>>83117715
>I don't want to see any opinions that don't match my own world view or political leanings
Ah I see, so you want 4chan to be a hugbox that caters to how you think, and only to how you think
Gotchufam
>>83111621
1:40 of setup, :10 of punchline, telegraphed from forever away.
I would have made pinko into doorstop.
Funny enough, I just caught an interview with the author of this book. They were talking about why we still don't see women getting into science jobs as much as men. She said encoraging girls to be into science and lab work is part of it.
>>83117812
This is a comic board. Not a toy board, nor a gender board. It is a hugbox for people who enjoy stories told by pictures. Go to toy, and argue about it there.
>>83117715
You know how we mock Tumblr because they whine when people who don't fit their hippy dippy lefty pink mold post on there?
You're literally no better.
>>83117693
It cannot be taught, but it can be induced eugenics style.
Otherwise than why are areas like Silicone Valley and liberal areas (both west and east coasts) showing the highest skyrockets of autism?
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24956222/temple-grandin-half-silicon-valleys-got-mild-autism
How is it a neurological 'disorder' if it's genetic? Parents with autistic traits give birth to autistic kids. That seems pretty orderly to me.
>>83117863
While they are still fashion dolls and kinda superficially about science, I am glad to see toys aimed at girls like the MC^2 dolls encouraging girls to be interested in STEM research and jobs.
>>83115537
The plural of Lego, is Lego. sincerely: an AFOL from /toy/.
P.S. it's okay, you probably never really *read* the write up on lego. Also, they very rarely end a sentence about lego with the word lego. I mean, the instructions for every set i've ever touched have been more pictographic than an ikea assembly set.
>>83117623
> implying /pol/ and conservards aren't full of autistic cunts as well
>>83113743
No, they are because they are versatile, durable and easy to understand and use
Kids like building things and then play with it
God, this board is stupid
>>83117863
Because woman and men are different, on a chemical level. If we injected woman with testosterone and chemicals to make them take risks and be more aggressive, as well as 'Male-Brained', like autism researcher baron-cohen showed they'd lean more towards scientific fields and systematizing tasks.
Not saying that we should do that, or discourage otherwise. Some differences just are. All we can do is offer incentives for females to join those fields.
>>83117950
While those dolls look ugly as fuck, and i would really want to burn them, i admire the message. It's much better than giving universities and work places some inane quotas. You can lead the horse to water, but you sure as hell can't make it drink.
>>83116172
I think P&F did a toy that was a platypus, and did nothing. It was a mega-hit. I'm not sure if they did a thing that does everything, but it sounds like the kind of thing they would have sunk in to the last season.
>>83118009
Only the rich ones namefag. My point is more about how you can be autistic due to your upbringing just based on the parents that raised you and how soon they want to get you diagnosed, at 6 months or whatnot. Like a nervous investor selling their stock out early.
>>83115537
> evolution is real
Who the fuck cares. Everyone knows fossils were put here by Satan to make people doubt the gospels. Evolution is fake.
(Just because you and a buncha people are ignorant about proper definitions, that doesn't make you right. Stop letting ignorance thrive.)
>>83118009
Demographics show you're statistically wrong, as rural and 'conservative' areas are far less autism prone.
>>83118009
This.
As a Brit, literally, and I'm not exaggerating in anyway shape or form, literally every single person who is a paid up member of UKIP that I know has a touch of the 'tism. And that's not me memeing or using the word in any way out of its dictionary definition.
I'm sure there are plenty. Hundreds, thousands even, that aren't, that are completely neurotypical, I'm sure the majority may well be, I'm just saying I know about 15 fully paid up members and every single one is an autist.
>>83117863
It's because women don't want to.
>>83115501
>Its just like how not every vegan thinks you're a shithead for eating meat.
i have never met a vegan who doesnt shut the fuck up about bieng vegan
everything else i agree with you on
>"oh boy, this sounds fun i wonder what /co/ thinks about t-"
>this thread
nope, not again, not this time
>>83118163
Its because society projects them as male jobs.
There is literally no reason why more women don't study computer science at university, but at mine around 90% of all students are male.
Don't try to pretend that societies preconceived notions of things play no effect on these decisions.
>>83118112
From where this fucking disscusions are coming from??
Fuck this, i'm going to /ck/
>>83118033
So you're saying transgenderism works and Caitlyn Jenner is a corageous and brave woman?
Now I'm not saying that brain chemistry is a myth, (and we need to focus on ridding ourselves of body thetans), but biology and chemistry and be cherry picked by people to support their political biases.
To say that all women are weak willed and all men are strong and brave due to brain chemistry is a buncha sexist pseudo-science nonsense.
>>83118204
I've never met a vegan who forces it on people. I even lived with 3 vegans last year in my first year of university and not once did they in any way bring it up unless asked.But then both of ours are personal experiences
>>83118238
hurr durr patriarchy
>>83118279
Anyone who says that Caitlyn Jenner wasn't brave in coming out as transgender is a liar.
You can believe what you want about transgender people, you can think they're mentally ill, you can support them all the way but it (ironically) takes balls to put yourself out publicly and say "I'm transgender, I want to lop by cock off"
Because s/he got a lot of shit for it, became a target of ridicule and will be one for the rest of their life.
>>83118272
I am saying that people who refuse to acknkowlege official definitions of words, even corporate names, are of the same mindset of knuckledragging evolution deniers.
Shoudl have made it clearer. And posted this gem.
>>83118314
But he's not wrong though...
>>83118238
if someone is stupid enough to let society pressure them into not doing something they really shouldn't be a scientist
>>83118484
But when they try to break through that and point out how fucking stupid it all is, they're just dumb feminists who hate all men.
>>83111621
is this even a real toy?
>>83118238
>Its because society projects them as male jobs.
Because women don't want to fucking to them.
>>83118385
> rich white Republican who is a television star with a marketing team comes out
> brave
I am torn on the issue. I think part of it is plastic surgeons and other doctors in an industry looking to make money off of people's beliefs with expensive procedues. I do think some of them are mentally ill or confused, but I think some just fully believe this and all of them have Constituionally protected rights to explore those beliefs.
Just like idiots are free to publish faux science kids books saying fire breathing dinosaurs were in the Bible and evolution is a lie.
Or talk about Lego ad "Legos".
>>83116808
Nope.
Historically, it's because men treat cooking as a professional skill and not as a life skill.
Get a job in a kitchen, start washing dishes, two years later you end up making Neo-Hatian Fusion Haute Cuisine 60 times per night, go home at 1 AM, and have a cheese sandwich and a beer before collapsing into bed. Wake up, realize you are out of cereal, eat two slices of toast, drink a glass of juice that is starting to go off-date, and then putter around a bit before going back in to work, silently checking off days until the weekend, when they can restock their own larder. At least, as long as they are either a bachelor or only dating a girl. In which case, they will cook to impress her. Because bitches love a man who can make magic in the kitchen, but you'll do it like, once a week and not something you do at work, because fucking WORK.
Women, on the other hand, if they do not find a *passion* to go into cooking as a professional skill, will treat it as a life skill, i.e. find as many shortcuts as possible because it becomes just another daily chore. That's why my mother's favorite recipes tend to involve dumping French Onion Soup Mix on things. Occasionally, rarely, she will spend hours making a super special meal, but it's going to be some single important element that eats up the most of the time: Grandma's perogies, oh god, I ALMOST can make them, but the recipe card isn't right, and i don't know what mom does...
What would you imagine your Pinko as?
How would you play with your Pinko?
>>83118556
Oh yeah, I'm sure that no women would want the arduous task of being a computer engineer. Or a mechanic, or an electrician
Have you even considered that the reason why women "don't want to do them" is because society tells them that they are jobs for men.
It works both ways when concerning men in the care industry. Society says carers are typically women, and if a bloke does decide to become one it says something about his masculinity.
>People in this thread literally pretending gender politics isn't even a thing
>Christ.
I'm by no means a feminist, but even I can recognise the way that society shapes certain job roles
>>83118556
because they are raised to believe, by both men and women, that those jobs are not for women.
Do you not see how it is a self fulfilling prophacy?
>>83118613
I'd argue that makes her/him more brave because she's on a worldwide public spotlight. I live in a small town in Wales in the ass end of nowhere and I know who s/he is.
If they weren't super right television stars, s/he would just be the local weirdo.
But I do see the other side
>>83118680
Er, my former boss was a female electrician. Like, Licensed, Master, everything.
Also on the polite side of 60, and so small that she could walk on top of drywall without cracking it. And a trained opera singer. But she prefers Joan Jet & the Blackhearts.
>>83118781
I have no doubt they exist, but they are the exception rather than the rule
>>83118781
Personal Anecdotes are not evidence, i know, but, well, there's all types in the world and somehow she managed to check off a bunch of odd boxes for a woman.
Do kids even play with toys anymore?
>>83118984
Yes. What kind of stupid question is that?
>>83118984
As someone with a 5 year old, yes. Why wouldn't they?
>>83118680
My sister went through school being told that the world desperately wanted female engineers and female IT technicians. She was told this day in, day out. Her and her friends ended up as grade school teachers, nurses and secretaries.
And you know what? Fine. Good for them. They shouldn't be shamed for pursuing those careers
>>83119037
>>83119047
I'd say that playing with toys is a dying thing. They seem to be much more interested in tablets and computers and what not.
Probably because they are relatively easy to use and they want to imitate the adults using them though.
>>83119120
In what way is a tablet not a toy to a child? They aren't fucking using it for work that's for sure. Also plenty of kids still play with traditional dolls and action figures.
>>83118680
>>83118741
"there's a real version of them untainted by society's brainwashing that's totally different from how they really are right now" is dumb reasoning
women aren't interested in those jobs in general. I have little interest myself as a creative individual. it seems like a painful fit as a role
>>83114470
No, I'm pretty sure pinko is slang for a lefty, thus the ideals expressed in the toy.
>>83119174
>In what way is a tablet not a toy to a child
What the fuck- doesn't matter if a child perceives the tablet as a toy, it doesn't make the tablet a toy just because some 5 year old is using it.
>>83119263
No it's slang for communist or someone who helps advance communism
>>83119251
In no way was I saying that "they all secretly want to if not for that mean ol' society"
Do you honestly genuinely think that societies expectations of people play no part whatsoever in the decisions they want to make in their lives?
Because when your parents, your freinds, tv, film and the internet are all treating a job type as something you don't do, all compounding that notion back in on themselves like a feedback loop it will effect your thinking on things.
This is why when I worked in a dead end job for minimum wage in a cinema before I got my degree, it still seemed like I was doing better than someone in a dead end job in McDonalds, even though, relatively speaking McDonalds is not only a okish company to work for, but had far more opportunities for advancement
That was pretty great.
This thread is straight-up ass though. You all should be thrown in a fire.
>>83119282
If someone plays a game on a tablet, how is that any different from them playing a game with an action figure?
As it is, kids play with toys.
You know how your parents always used to complain that in their day kids played outside and weren't glued to screens?
Guess what? That's how you sound right now.
>>83119510
Apologies for not agreeing with your world view in one of over 100 threads you could be browsing on one of many boards on this chinese cartoon website
I'll be sure to start more Steven Universe threads or more Marvel Drone vs DCuck threads in future mate
>>83119610
this thread went so liberal, it's feeding on itself. Fucking hell.
>>83119659
Well lord forbid that liberals should be able to share their opinions.
We should just keep it as a hugbox where the nasty liberals aren't allowed yeah? Like an anti-Tumblr.
All this talk of gender roles and toys reminds me ofGirl Games
>>83119610
Are you implying that this thread is any different than the ones you just pointed out? They're all shit; the /sug/ where it's autists rolling around in fanfiction and fanart or the cape shit threads where people just go back and forth provoking one another over the same shit over and over. It's all just shitposting.
>>83119889
>What is 4chan
Mate as I said in that post, there are over 100 threads on a multitude of boards you can browse and comment on. I do not, nor have I ever given a shit about homestuck, or adventure time or the Regular show, but if people want to discuss them? Well hell there are plenty of other threads that catch my eye.
4chan does not exist to serve up threads that specifically cater to you and what you want to hear.
>>83111621
I was worried for a sec but that was bretty gud
>>83115351
>tfw you fell for it and chucked some decent action figures
>>83120066
I had nearly every single one of the Marvel Ghostbusters comics and my parents claim they threw them out.
I'm half convinced they've stored them away because they think they're worth money though. I keep mentioning they're not and I don't know whether or not they're saying they threw them out because they don't believe me or because they genuinely have
>this thread
>>83111621
Man, Gwyneth Paltrow really is a terrible person.
>>83119550
I think what >>83119174 is saying is that tablets and portable computers in general are becoming the new toys. Dolls and action figures are no longer desired by children.
At least that's what I see. Judging from my recent experiences, I see my 5 to 8 year old cousins all playing on their ipads and what not, their figures gathering dust.
Because lets face it, a tablet offers far more options to stimulate a childs mind than some plastic doll.
>>83120404
I meant to refer to >>83119282
>>83120404
When I had my daughter my wife and I said we'd never just palm her off onto a tablet, but when its 7 in the morning and you didn't get to bed til half one the night before it becomes the option.
As it is, tablets are the new video games.They're the things rotting the minds of kids whose parents are too lazy to raise them. Just as TV once was and comic books before that
My daughter uses the tablet to watch shows on Netflix, no different to how you or I would watch a TV show as a kid, except on demand.
But as for the concept of toys, she and all of her school friends play primarily with toys. Even the kids who are already hooked on video games devote a large portion of their time to their toys.
>>83117950
those dolls are kinda crap but the effort is noble. The issue is women don't WANT to get into STEM. How the fuck are you supposed to just fucking FLIP want society expects of women and men in a single generation and FORCE girls to take up technical jobs. "Sorry Becky, all that time you spent learning to sew and design clothes is going out the fucking window. Time to learn how to weld."
>>83121043
War. Total war is pretty good for it.
Of course though then you get all the boys coming back home and wanting their old jobs back, and claiming women are stealing their jobs and you're back to square one
Or that's how it happened in World War One anyway
>>83120456
The guy you are referring to was trying to say that tablets weren't toys in the hands of a child.
Which is bullshit, but I'd argue that its the apps and games on those devices that are the new toys. The tablet is just the system that the toys run on.
>>83117863
Women are dumb. Simple as that.
>>83111621
>Swedish
Of course.
>>83121297
You're entitled to believe that, that's completely fine and I'm sure there are plenty who will agree with you, but you also lose the right to complain about feminism because you're proving their point.
>>83115501
No, this is pretty much spot on.
>>83121179
and world war two in america. Which did more for gender equality than a ages of suffragette campaigning. You can't just tell a woman who spent 5 years of her life learning how to weld or fix pipes or assemble BOMBS that it's time to go back into the kitchen. They have useful skills, they should be allowed to use them.
>>83121179
I think its safe to argue that one would be pretty pissed off after spending years seeing your best friends die, by the hands of your enemy or your political officer and doing horrendous acts just to survive day to day, only to come home to a country that doesn't seem to give a shit about what you went through.
But, no, men were just angry at their jobs being stolen.
>>83117863
Women are encouraged all the time to become engineers and scientists. Girls at my school got speeches, field days, were offered scholarships and bursaries, work experience and more. The boys were just told to get on with the work.
Didn't work. One or two girls did biology because they wanted to be veterinarians or work with horses and the rest went into humanities and social studies.
>People comparing Lego to the toy in the video
wtf
>>83116249
>women who fought in America's military
I was under the impression that they hadn't greenlit putting women on the frontlines yet?
>>83121514
Right, because my post was the be all and end all of my thoughts on that matter.
But on the flipside, women had spent half a decade doing things that they had been told they literally were incapable of doing before. They became empowered and many felt that perhaps they shouldn't be content to just get back in the kitchen, perhaps they could do something with their lives.
Wanting to revert back after you've tasted that liberating freedom would be lunacy.
Though I do agree with your point about the view of men, even if I would argue that women not wanting to go back into subservience quietly is hardly "not giving a shit about what you went through"
>>83121621
This is how these people work.
>There's a slight tangible connection on this level, if you look at it this way and squint!
>That means that X=Y and if you don't agree, you're an -ist!
Dialogues.
>>83121598
Having one or two speeches and field days does not simply erase a lifetime of society expecting different of you. It may work on some, but you can't fight literal generations of indoctrination with a pep talk.
>>83116830
speaking as one of the billions of people who were children at one point, no, it didn't.
>>83121621
Right, because its not like the two things being compared aren't both intended for creative thinking and Scandinavian.
>>83117863
I'm just wondering why it's seen as a bad thing that they're not in those fields. If people, not specifically women, don't want to go into an industry, it's not something that they should be judged for.
>>83116077
It must suck being that much of a failure when his older half-brother actually has a successful acting career.
>>83121974
Because society has shaped gender roles in such a way that women are being turned away from such fields by virtue of being born with a vagina.
Its getting a lot better. A hell of a lot better, but it was a major issue at one time.
>>83111621
Heh, a kid would totally be like that. But what's even funnier is /co/ collectively jerking off at an easy strawman in their own little safety bubble. The irony is hilarious.
>>83121831
Absolute nonsense. In this day and age, anyone who tries and pushes a women away from STEM fields gets pilloried and made into a national story. There are literally billions of pounds of subsidies and bursaries on offer. Businesses and universities are howled at for not having enough female representation in their fields and this has been going on for decades; during the same time period, things that have existed for centuries have disappeared: religion, family structure, national identities, sense of rights and privileges, etc have all vanished. Homosexuality has been elevated from a disgusting thing into practically a desired trait. Massive, huge shifts in societal habits have occured. And yet, despite the fact that any women entering a STEM field in a Western country will be showered with support and practually assured a job at the end of it... they don't pick it. Women didn't use to be lawyers, researchers, analysts, etc. Why is the STEM field the only one that apparently is problematic because most women don't want to go into it, despite the fact that women have happily been working in it throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and that working with machinery was actually very common for women in the 19th century with the Industrial revolution, which blows your idea of society not liking girls with machines out of the water.
>>83122084
His first ever acting role was in a film warning about the dangers of playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Remember that next time you see some shitty made for TV movie, you might be looking at someone who would go on to be I believe the highest paid actor in HollywoodThough probably not
>>83122102
I'd argue the most frustrating thing for a lot of radical progressives is bluntly not understanding that many women are comfortable being home makers and comfortable living in their traditional gender roles.
this is not to say women should not be allowed outside of traditional gender roles or to perform traditionally male jobs if they're capable. But there's on odd disconnect in some people. Just because you can does not mean you should, and by the same token just because someone thinks you want something doesn't mean you should.
>>83122178
Homosexuality has been elevated from being seen as a disgusting thing into practically a desired trait.
I didn't mean to imply homosexuality was disgusting, just pointing out how most people are now perfectly fine with it when before it would be met with derision and disgust.
>>83122178
>Women are hard-wired to think in a specific way, intellectually from birth, society has nothing to do with it
It wasn't that long ago that women were expected to be housewives. One generation at most. But please, tell me more about how countless writers on gender politics who have actually studied the field are talking shit.
>>83122178
>religion, family structure, national identities
A: religion hasn't gone anywhere and won't any time soon but it's become largely superfluous on a social level. It did a lot of social good acting as a social welfare mechanism, patron of the arts and sciences, and so on by private fields do that better now. People however are desperate for meaning in their lives and always will be so religion will never disappear.
>family structure
A social construct, and not one that's under threat or ever has been. "a wife, a husband, two children and a dog' is a convenient piece of propaganda. Single Mothers and Fathers have always existed and always will.
>National Identities
are a relatively new phenomena on a historical scale. Nationalism didn't exist 1000 years ago, dynasties revolving around charismatic people were the go to power structure once upon a time. What's one more dead nation at history's feet?
>>83118680
Except there is, and has been for many years, a massive push to get women involved in traditionally male industries. It's hard to say society dictates what is or isn't a male job when it's been crammed into popular consciousness that women CAN be these things.
My main problem is that there isn't a push into the shittier male dominated fields, like mining, or a push to get men into female dominated fields, like teaching. Full equality or bust.
There are legitimate toys that spark your creativity, engage you and your imagination. Legos were one of those (don't know if this is still true). And then there's the bullshit like Pinko which is a subversion of you, your imagination, your personality.
But I do not envy kids of today. In my day we used to play with sticks, rocks, leaves and so on and it was always fun for us. Growing up in a rural setting is a blessing.
Point is we strayed so much from the authentic concepts of play. Play for the sake of play, with you as the Great Architect and animator of shapes and things. No point, no "education", no retarded ideologies breathing down your neck - that is play. In a way kids are gods when they play with toys or implements. They give them life, a destiny and purpose. That inherent unthinking ability is vastly superior and purer than the shit that flows from the mouths and minds of psychologists and various other "professionals." Fuck all of that bullshit.
>>83122415
>or a push to get men into female dominated fields
This might just be a UK thing but I've noticed that if you are a man and applying for a primary school teacher, you're practically in.
>>83122415
Its all very well and good saying women CAN be these things, but when there aren't many already it doesn't seem that way. When your mothers generation wouldn't have done it, it seems out of left field.
Or are you saying that the preconceived notion that men do mechanical jobs has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on women who might choose to be a mechanic?
As it is, I feel you misunderstand me somewhat. I'm not saying that the problem hasn't gotten better. Lord knows it has, but there is still room to improve in terms of certain jobs and the types of people it is assumed do them.
>>83122197
I was actually referring to Tom Hanks' son, the failed rapper, and Colin Hanks, another one of his sons who is actually successful.
>>83122454
>In my day we went outside and played with sticks and rocks
You are literally the stereotype of your parents right now.
>>83122413
>People however are desperate for meaning in their lives and always will be so religion will never disappear.
People now seek solace in brands now. Brand loyalty is the new polytheism now.
>>83113743
>>83113914
>>83113951
>>83114052
>>83114127
>>83114139
>>83114220
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>>83114555
Proof that this thread needs to move to /toy/
A robot chicken skit that doesn't end in an explosion or death? Weird.
>>83122454
>Muh sticks and rocks
>Muh scraped knees and dirt
>Muh climbing trees
I hope you dodged polio grandad, because that's the only way you're not talking fucking shit as though TV did nothing for you.
>>83115011
K'nex has fallen to shit. They don't make good sets anymore that outdo that of LEGO
>>83122108
I disagree, I thought the skit was more funny.
>>83122819
>>83122686
I'm not saying we didn't have and play with toys and watch cartoons. But when you're a kid in the 90s, living in a small 1 000 year+ old town in Croatia following a total war your experiences will differ from those of a kid in 90s NYC.
>>83122736
there isn't a single place in the bible that supports Dante's Hell. That's a work of fiction produced for the sake of entertainment and spreading one man's musings on existence. This was adopted by the church as it's easier to market 'you will get thrown in a lake of fire if you don't do what you're told' rather than 'in heaven you'll get the cheap seats if you don't do what you're told.'
I bluntly wish Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and a slew of other religions would disappear overnight. But they won't because they offer people solace.
people never went to church every day and prayed to god in terror of what was coming. Faith was always largely hypocritical and a way to make sense of a nonsensical world. In the old days if I didn't understand something I asked a priest?
Now? I have google.
>>83123133
Croatian war orphans would be happy to recieve a kyno or whatever. they would cherish it because the only thing they have to their names are chemical burns.
>>83123137
>It's a "smug style" post that revels in the contentment of mutual knowing and martyrdom
>>83111621
>Search for toys on Gwyneth Paltrow's website
this is what i've found
>>83118279
>To say that all women are weak willed and all men are strong and brave due to brain chemistry is a buncha sexist pseudo-science nonsense
Well it's a good thing that isn't what I said at all then, what a bizarre reading. Actually read up on some of baron-cohen's studies.
Men are aggressive risk takers, and dominant because brain chemicals. Woman usually lack these so they're not.
Whether they should alter this or not, is not my jurisdiction to say.
For fuck sakes, haven't you ever heard of Hyenas? Hyena daughters get lots of testosterone real young and form a Matriarchy. It's biology. This doesn't have everything to do with "Boys like blue and racecars, girls like pink and dollys", it's just acknowledging basic neuroanatomical differences.
>>83118385
Caitlyn Jenner is not brave.
It's easy to be 'brave' when you're rich and famous, and it's unlikely she'll ever be physically attacked, rejected or abused for her Trendy Transition.
That doesn't apply to 99% of Trans individuals.
>>83124061
god damn! those sex toys are expensive as fuck.
>>83119443
>Do you honestly genuinely think that societies expectations of people play no part whatsoever in the decisions they want to make in their lives?
Well sure, if you're stupid? One's own class, region and general position in life determines more about your decisions than your gender does, or really any "Gender brainwashing" you believe is going on.
>>83124205
>Having the planet ridicule you is not brave
>Having people in the street shouting things at you is not brave
Caitlyn Jenner is a prick of epic proportions, but to imply that "oh well she has money" is in any way a cocoon from the sheer levels of vitriol she faces is kind of short sighted.
I mean its not like there are countless people who have been rich and famous and not been able to remain happy while feeling the social pressure right?
>>83124365
You're dodging the context for which this 'heckling' is coming from here. Caitlyn is a Kardashian, do you think they don't get their fair share of criticism? That they don't have people shouting obscenities and smearing them all over the news everywhere?
This would seem bad, but when framed through them is not actually a bad thing at all. They live off the fame and notoriety, and any attacks towards them are practically free publicity. This is how the Celebrity world worked.
>I mean its not like there are countless people who have been rich and famous and not been able to remain happy while feeling the social pressure right?
Maybe. But people like Kim, Catlyn and Kanye are not one of those people. You know, people with that weird thing called shame, or who require faculties such as dignity?
>>83122415
Men have been pushed out of becoming teachers because apparently it's not safe for little girls to be around them. It's actually a major issue especially with more and more boys lacking any sort of male role model or guidance figure due to the rate of divorce.
>>83115771
It'd probably just be cheaper to get a Maglite and put a ghost-shaped piece of construction paper on it to project the shadow.
>>83118412
The irony here is that language evolves; it isn't static. If a whole country uses the word "Legos", then it's a word, no matter how much you want to be a grammar Nazi about it.
>>83115602
>I suppose you believe vaccines are the cause, right?
Of course not, goy.
>>83125212
>if we keep being collectively stupid, eventually we'll be right and that's fine
I'm not sure anyone outside of the US calls them Legos. In Britain we call them Lego, Legos sounds fucking weird.
>>83118669
A pocket pussy
Figure it out.
>>83125347
>a brit with a superiority complex
No surprise. You're still just buttblasted we yanks improved your shitty spelling of words like "armour" and "arse".
>>83115602
>No anon, its just being more properly diagnosed now. Kids with a touch of the 'tism back in the day would just be consigned as being weirdo outsiders because it wasn't correctly diagnosed.
So why don't we just diagnose everyone with 'tism? If we diagnosed 100% of people with it, there'd be a 0% chance that someone 'tistic would actually miss their diagnosis or we wouldn't catch it. It's a win-win!
Sort of like how how we vaccinate everyone and give cures pre-emptively to ensure no one gets measles or diseases regardless of whether they have it or not
Holy fuck, /co/, can you be more tumblr?
>>83125498
And by Win-Win, I mean there's absolutely no downside or real harm in over-shooting our quota here. You get an immunity which is great, and if you don't get the disease? No real harm is really done anyway.
>>83125526
careful, you'll set them off again
