Remember a few years ago, before Target shot itself in the foot financially by abandoning its equality initiatives, when it boldly signaled its willingness to fold like a card table by removing its Pride Month displays due to some typical right-wing terroristic threats? That same year, it was set to have an exclusive Monster High Frankie Stein doll, who happened to have a trans pride theme. Target cancelled the deal, and the doll became an Amazon exclusive instead.
Well, Amazon's preorders went up, then they all got cancelled. Then preorders went up again, and again the orders got cancelled. It seemed Frankie would never actually see release, or would perhaps find their (being assembled from all sorts of unrelated bodyparts, Frankie is logically non-binary) way to that not-Mattycollector web store nobody knows Mattel has, but at last Amazon has gotten the doll in stock and shiooing.
Unlike some companies, Mattel has not retreated from treating all their customers with basic human dignity: Monster High is very inclusive and celebrates Pride every year, so it's kind of fitting that Welcome Committee Frankie has finally been allowed to come out.
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That doesn't seem overtly "PRIDE theme". A rainbow on one lightning bolt and the logo?
Yeah for some reason whoever posts under the OAFE moniker on the blog is really left-leaning and looks for patterns where there are none. I don’t mind politics in my toys (to an extent), but the blog only bashes right-wing people now. Yeah, they ain’t great, but the left-wingers aren’t great either, and it’s sad to see a great website that used to treat everyone the same end up this way.
(INB4 “Haha incel chud mom’s basement ist-a-phobic XYZ, some people just lean more conservative, but we ain’t all bigots, just like the left ain’t all ultra-woke groomers) 🤷
Oh, sweetie pie, you're a little confused! The question wasn't "why are you saying this was cancelled because of PRIDE," the question was "why are conservatives so soft and weak that they get scared of something this minor?" But you jumped right to the defense of the people who get mad when they're told not to hate others for things that are none of their business, bless your heart.
Okay, 1, if you stop changing your name, you'll stop getting snagged in the spam filter. Just pick a name and stick with it.
And 2, I hate to break it to ya, but we DO still make fun of everybody equally. Unfortunately for you, that doesn't mean there's a quota we've got to hit, it means that liberals aren't as monstrously stupid as conservatives. What are we going to pick on Democrats for, being too worried about Robert's Rules of Order to do anything useful? On Leftists for being so worried about ideological purity that they refuse to vote for someone unless they perfectly match up on every bullet point? It's not our fault that there's no such thing as a good Republican, and when they stop being the only ones out there in public doing anything mindbogglingly idiotic, we'll stop only calling them idiots. When they stop being on the wrong side of LITERALLY every issue at every level, we'll stop pointing out that they're wrong. It's as simple as that...
If you support Republicans, you support trans genocide. If you're okay with that, you're absolutely a bigot. Full stop.
In the movie, they are non-binary. Non-binary is part of the trans umbrella. Their blouse features trans colors (blue pink white pink blue) as well as their shorts. This is not their normal outfit and is specific to this toy. None of it is accidental and I doubt OAFE had any say in the design process.
They are a trans-specific release. Get over it and stop supporting the destruction and erasure of trans people. Be less stupid and you'll be less concerned about the opinions of randos on toy blogs on the internet.
Their shirt is also more or less in the trans flag colours