Will you only use earplugs if they’re the “girl” earplugs?

I’ve found a great new source of hilarity – the visitor posts on Target’s Facebook page.

Like this response to the frenzied protesters:

Alright opposition, let’s get one thing straight. Removing gendered labeling does not mean those things are now only for people who do not conform to the traditional gender binary. Most things in Target stores are not gendered. Do you only buy a television if it’s a “girl” television? Will you only use earplugs if they’re the “girl” earplugs (although these are actually a thing)? Are you constantly suffering from headaches because the Advil is ungendered (OH THE HUMANITY!)? And if you can’t sort out for yourself what the “girl” and “boy” toys are without the labels and colored backgrounds, then clearly you don’t have a strong enough concept of what that means to you anyway. Maybe you should let your kid loose on the aisles and see what THEY choose. If your girl chooses a truck, then that truck is a “girl” toy. Your boy wants My Little Pony, it’s a “boy” toy (and you may have a future Brony on your hands). If you won’t let Target teach you how to be open-minded, let your very own kids show you how it’s done.

“Do you only buy a television if it’s a “girl” television?” Hahahahahaha

And immediately below it, a good “traditional” shopper expresses her rage:

If you go to gender neutral throughout your store myself and my family will no longer shop at Target!!
When I go into buy a boy toy or boy clothes, I want to be able to go straight to the BOY section and get what I want/need!!!
Same applies to girl toys and clothes!!!

She NEVER wants to just go to the toy section and browse on the basis of what would be a FUN TOY because that way gender anarchy lies.

One guy is upset about the new difficulty in locating adult underwear:

So why just eliminate the children’s gender labels? why not the adults too? I would like to buy my boxers in the same aisle as Kathy buying her bra and thongs. I DEMAND MY ADULT GENDER EQUALITY AS WELL!

No wonder a jokey guy pretended to be Target to respond to some of the nice upholders of Traditional Gender Segregation of Toys.

Mike Melgaard pretended to be Target on Facebook and teased people who are threatening to boycott Target for removing gender labeling from toy aisles (e.g., separate labeling for “Building Sets” and “Girls Building Sets”). The boycotters were nonplussed.

Oh those horrible liberals, suggesting that children should be able to choose whatever toys they want to play with as opposed to being shunted into cisnormative choices by the retail industry.

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