By The Blaze. As California faces a major homeless crisis, skyrocketing taxes, and serious affordable housing issues, a California state legislator is focused on issues that truly matter: gender-neutral toy aisles. . .
Proposed by Assemblyman Evan Low (D), Assembly Bill 2826 would apply to retail department stores with over 500 employees. If passed, the law would eliminate boys and girls aisles, and require that children’s toys be offered in one, gender-neutral section inside the store.
“A retail department store shall maintain one, undivided area of its sales floor where, if it sells childcare articles, all childcare articles, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed,” reads the text of the bill.
Low’s proposed legislation adds: “Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate.” (Read more from “New Bill in Liberal State Would Require Toy Aisles to Be ‘Gender Neutral'” HERE)
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Don’t Be Stupid, of Course Kids Toys Aren’t Gender Neutral
By The Federalist. The latest nutty insanity to arise in the state of California is a proposed state ban on department stores having different sections for boys and girls toys and clothing. Now, this may well have been something you weren’t so aware was a pressing problem, but according to the California state legislature, this measure is needed to ensure consumers can compare products without “unjustified differences.”
What does that mean, exactly? It means exactly nothing. First of all, anyone who has ever been in a department store knows that if they wish to compare girls and boys toys, they are free two walk a distance, usually a few feet, to the next aisle and compare them. There is no border wall to surmount. It’s literally right there.
No, the purpose of this legislation has nothing to do with helping consumers and everything to do with trying to untether our children from natural and healthy predilections that have existed throughout time. Somehow these legislators have convinced themselves that the only reason boys like toy guns and actions figures while girls like tea sets and princesses is because the patriarchy has created these monstrous social constructs.
Almost any parent, who has not decided to engage in willing suspension of disbelief in the face of social justice claims, knows this is nonsense. Anyone who picks their kid up from school knows this. My son attends a diverse school with many immigrants from around the world. Upon being released from school, the vast majority of students display behavior typical to their gender. What a strange coincidence.
Are there exceptions to this? Certainly, and there is nothing wrong with masculine girls or feminine boys, this is a phenomenon with a long history. In fact, the irony is that many of the people who insist that feminine boys and masculine girls are literally of the other gender and require treatment for it, are the same ones now insisting that these gender differences don’t exist and should be removed from the marketplace. (Read more from “Don’t Be Stupid, of Course Kids Toys Aren’t Gender Neutral” HERE)
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