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boytoyrule

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This triggers a memory!
Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the "girl or boy toy with your happy meal?" question. We were both girls so we automatically answered "girl toy." After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said "one of each please" we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.
- I can feel the lingering pain you still carry about having these 4 useless Jasmine and not a single Aladdin when reading this.
  
  Hot take is hot!
  😂

Some will see this and think this is a sign of progress, that we are transitioning into a society where your genitals don't determine what toys you get to play with. Others will look at this and think the world is slipping in anarchy and moral decay.
- There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn't learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.
  
  I'm glad I wasn't sober when someone incidentally compared happy meal toys to the invention of movable type.
  
  There was a moral panic in the 19th century where people were outraged that young girls from good families kept reading novels. They said it would lead to social self-isolation and bookishness and distract from apropriate activities like knitting, socialising, looking pretty and smiling.
  And young women were thought to be largely unable to discern fact from fiction and hold their gentlemen callers to the same standards as the men in their novels. And you know, women having standards... the 18th century couldn't have that.
- The third group of us secretly want both toys
  
  The rest of know it doesn’t matter, the toy will be broken or lost in the car by the next block!
  
  I don’t think that’s a third group. I think it’s a subset of the first one.
- Some of those "morals" need to decay.
- I wish they just didn't give out crappy plastic toys at all.
- anarchy and moral decay can’t happen at the same time
  
  Eh; creative urge=destructive urge
- Whats wrong with anarchy? Talk all the shit you like; it works better than kleptocracy or fascism.
  
  Interesting question, is anarchy better than Kleptocracy? How does money function without the backing of a government, would you have to go back to a bartering system? Could you even have a global supply chain in the absence of a stable government? Could people be able to self actualize in an unstable society?

Would you like the Fashion Police Annihilator Pistol or the Commando Laser Hairbrush?
- Does it have to be fashion police or can it annihilate anyone?
  
  As the holder, you get to decide what is a fashion crime.
  Tasteful suit? Annihilation. Sandals & socks? not a problem.
  
  It can annihilate any kind of police
- Yes
- Damn, that's a tough choice. Gimme an extra happy meal and both.

So... give them a Ken? Lol

This actually happened to me when I worked at McDonald's. Guy wanted a toy for boys. I listed all the stuff we had and asked to pick. None of the toys were really gendered at all. He kept insisting that I should just pick a toy for boys.
- Yes sir. A toy for boys. Are we speaking of a genderfluid boy maybe or an honest god-fearing, completely heteronormative boy - no shame in that, sir, it's not your fault.
  
  "Bless your little heart sir. I know it's not easy choosing the "boy toy" when one isn't pink. But I need to reach deep down into those man genes and deduce which one is the boy toy. If you choose poorly then you and your kids are super gay now. Dems da rules sir!."
- Well obviously the boy toys are the ones I use my penis to play with.
  
  Coukd also be for the they/them's though.

I love that lol

Kid in the back seat playing with a pair of Barbies

I'd be a great boy toy ;) One at a time please, ladies.

I know entire places where thirsty people would offer to be boy toys, but something tells me they'd change their minds instantly upon seeing them.

However, this assumes that the customer knows what the brand names "Barbie" and "Hot Wheels" stand for. Perhaps she just had to bring such a menu of toys to a boy and didn't have the cultural knowledge behind the terms. It would have been helpful: A doll or a toy car?
- Fucking no. Any customer at a fast food drive-through for their kid knows what a fucking Barbie and Hot Wheels are, that is some stupid fucking mental gymnastic bullshit levels of pandering.
- Lemmy wants a toy bicycle because fuck cars also will it run Arch?

Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk “ Candy bar closed in 10 minutes” Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk

I dont geht it... Why did she have Herr the Barbie? (Me remembering clearly playing with my sisters barbie dolls)

My favourite thing today.

Employees like this are even more annoying than these types of customers. You knew what toy she wanted so just hand her the toy and move on. It's such a waste of everybody's time when someone who has a job with customer service tries to ack slick with the customers.
- It's not a waste of the employee's time at all. Don't start a "be difficult" contest with someone working hourly.
- I worked retail for decades and I'm genuinely offended you'd side with a customer. those shits don't get enough guff for their garbage ass behavior. you wanna come in a scream at me because your mad about "duh gubbermen"? well I'm gonna detect your dumb ass talking points and fuck with you for the duration of our interaction. I'll tell you the toy car has pink hair and rainbow flames on the side and the license plate says "Bi or Die" and the "Barbie" toy is a MtF school teacher named "Claxison" that lives on government assistance. Come in here again and tell me you think "happy holiday's" is an attack on Christmas, I dare you!
  
  I worked in retail too before. You're going to meet every type of person, and a lot of them aren't pleasant. It's in the best interest of everybody to simply complete the transaction as quickly and smoothly as possible. I don't want to see their ugly mugs nor do they want to spend time with me. If I let every customer like this get under my skin, I would gone insane long ago. The people in retail who actually do spend the time messing with customers usually just end up provoking them, which leads to the crazier ones to flip out and cause problems for everybody else.
- ☝️ Found the customer from the post.
- Have you ever actually encountered a cashier like this, or just read so much copy-pasta about them that you feel like you've encountered dozens

Why be difficult though when you clearly know what the customer is asking for
- Why not pick one of the answers provided when you're clearly in a made up scenario?
  
  Because I've got infinity time to argue when I'm in a made-up scenario.
- idk dismantling the pointless notion of boys toys vs girls toys bit by bit at no cost to the interlocutor other than a slight annoyance sounds pretty based
- Because if someone says something sexist/racist/stupid, don't let them get away with it.
- Ma'am, we have hotwheels or barbie, we can move this along as soon as you tell us which one you'd like.
  
  Sir, I demand to receive the toy that contains the XY chromosome and if you don't provide it immediately I will be speaking with your manager.
- Why be difficult , though, when you clearly know what the employee is asking?
  
  If it was the customer telling the story I'd be asking just that
- They're not being difficult, the customer is pushing a sexist agenda rather than select one of the choices named. It's perfectly reasonable for boys to want a Barbie-themed rock band figurine, or a girl to want a van for her Barbie rock band to pretend to drive to their next gig.
  
  They definitely are being difficult, even if you think the cause is just. Everyone knows what she wanted to get
- Why be a misandrist when you clearly know the boy isn't being given a choice because people like you and the mom don't give a damn about what boys as long as the toy 'matches' the kid's penis?
  Yeah I'm calling you out for being a creep.
  
  Lmao

And that's why they work at McDonald's.
- The fuck!
  I worked at McD what of it? If someone’s working and paying bills then don’t judge them.
  I’m a software developer now but not only through hard work as I recognise a certain amount of luck played into how I got where I am now and without that I’d still be working minimum wage somewhere.
  
  There's nothing wrong with working at McDonald's.
  But it's a fact that people often work in fast food because they can't get a job elsewhere. That doesn't mean they don't deserve a living wage, but it does mean that people who alienate potential employers by being intentionally obnoxious are more likely to end up there.
- What does this mean
  
  It means they were probably unable to get any other job due to purposefully being an obnoxious pain in the ass.
- You seem like an obnoxious pain in the ass who can't take a joke. It must be hard for you to hold a job.
- Why's that?
  
  Because they're purposefully being an obnoxious pain in the ass to their customers. Other potential employers probably didn't put up with that shit.
- Why is working at McDonald's bad, they still have a job
  
  Working at McDonald's isn't bad at all - it's just that people who are more difficult to work with often end up working in fast food by necessity. My comment implies that the OOP works in fast food due to a lack of professionalism and a tendency to make rude comments to customers, as evidenced by the post.
- Go on... Why does this explain why they work at McDonald's?
  
  Did... did you not read the enormous thread of replies to this comment where I explained exactly that, multiple times?

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