Hasbro’s Synergy collection celebrates girls’ favorite toys and characters

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  1. ProtectronPrime

    ProtectronPrime Subjectively Objective

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    I don't, because a company doing horrible things that belies its ad copy is expected. It's why false advertising claims are so hard to pin down. The state of the law is that we, as a nation, expect companies to lie to us.

    It's like all those exercise fads that come with disclaimers that tell you that if you undertake the program, you might suffer an injury or death. It's stupid, but there it is.

    Or on the other claw, there are any number of social concepts and ideas that are great in theory that seek equality, but in the hands on well meaning extremists want to punch me and take the stuff I busted my butt to get for any reason you care to name.

    It's all the same to me.

    And now you know why I'm more or less ambivalent about everything. If you expect everything to be utterly ridiculous you won't be disappointed.
     
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    I love these \"THIS IS DEVIDING THE FANDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111\" comments. Name something that doesn\'t.
     
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    Get woke, go broke.

    Also, give me more fembots. 
     
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  4. ProtectronPrime

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    Nope. Jem was absent from all the crossover stuff to my knowledge anyhow.
     
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    ... well shit, if you look at it like that. :( 
     
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    grindcore138 TIME TO DELIVER A PIZZA BALL!

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    Oh, man, I saw this comic book and got so mad I pissed and shit myself at the same time because of the feminest social studies warriors agenda, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.
     
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    You shit and piss yourself simultaneously? Maybe it's time to see a doctor.
     
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    Yep! Life is horrible. That Pizzaz design though. It's legit.
     
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    grindcore138 TIME TO DELIVER A PIZZA BALL!

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    My doctor said there's nothing he can do, The Matriarchy™ won't allow it :( 
     
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    women should be forcibly barred from consuming or participating in geek culture until they develop a revolutionary class consciousness, overthrow capitalism, and enforce the dictatorship of the proletariat

    meanwhile i will continue to read forty scifi novels a year and occasionally skim a book on theory

    godspeed, ladies
     
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    ...this was a mistake.
     
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    They forgot Scissortron! The most diverse female tfs Ever!
     
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    Gotta love it when adults try to intellectualize their outrage over DA WUMANZ being in a children's toy marketing franchise.
     
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    Love this comic!

    *Reads thread* Oh god. My eyes burn.
    This is why we can't have nice things.
     
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    misfire19d Not a writer. Not an illustrator. Just a fan.

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    That’s Arcee’s human holomatter avatar.
     
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    Of all of the initiatives hasbro has done of late, this seems the most innocent and arguably candid (artists writing about their own experience). As such i would rather support this project than say an art book of bay movies.

    So sure, we live in a reality of ethically depleted and depraved values, but why is this project so worthy of ire over literally anything else that is happening on the boards rn?

    Kairos is at the heart of the rhetrorical triangle and the timing of statements like yours seems suspicious at best.


    Edit to say: i think @ProtectronPrime put a lid on this and i’m happy to do so as well.
     
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  18. samisham

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    So far the only bad thing that anyone's pointed about this that I think holds water is how badly Hasbro treats its works (men and women) and the hypocrisy of such treatments coming from the same conglomerate that's giving us this, plus any ideals will always play second fiddle to the bottom line in the corporate mindset. But we all keep feeding the machine, Hasbro doesn't feel a need to change, so they don't change.
     
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    Nah, you're digging in shallow ground when it comes to me. I was sent that article about Hasbro's... less than savory working conditions this morning. I then, later this afternoon, saw the article about how it's trying to promote women and such. I just thought it was kind of funny, in a sad way, that this report is showing that Hasbro doesn't really give two shits about women cuz, y'know, they wouldn't be pulling some of the shady shit they're pulling.

    This stuff is all just a marketing ploy to get money from an ever shrinking consumer base.

    And @ProtectronPrime is, ultimately, right. All of these companies pull this nonsense. I should probably just have a nihilist attitude when it comes to this stuff.
     
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    I would say that you're both right tbh.
     
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