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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2014-10-20 12:39:10
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Fenrir.Candlejack said: »
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I agree with her, Breaking Bad figures shouldn't be intended for play by children. The show depicts him as a drug dealing protagonist.

Not appropriate for children in the least. I also think the threshold for becoming a "helicopter parent" is a bit past the "I don't want to let my kids play with meth cook action figures" line.
Read the article again, Nausi. The Breaking Bad figures are kept in the Adult section of the store, a section any parent doing their job the way they should, would keep their children out of by their own hands. There'd be a difference if Walter was on a peg right beside an Age of Extinction Hound, or a G.I Joe, but that's patently not the case. It's in it's own, separate, clearly marked section.
The "adult section" is just another isle lol...
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2014-10-20 12:54:15
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Where does GameStop in their mission statement declare they're a kid oriented business?
 
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By Ramyrez 2014-10-20 12:57:01
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Fenrir.Candlejack said: »
The last sex toy TRU carried was the Harry Potter broom. You probably remember that one. Little girls stealing it from their brothers to get themselves off.



Edit: Also, Candlejack agrees with me. I may need to reconsider my stance.
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2014-10-20 12:57:07
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Fenrir.Candlejack said: »
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I agree with her, Breaking Bad figures shouldn't be intended for play by children. The show depicts him as a drug dealing protagonist.

Not appropriate for children in the least. I also think the threshold for becoming a "helicopter parent" is a bit past the "I don't want to let my kids play with meth cook action figures" line.
Read the article again, Nausi. The Breaking Bad figures are kept in the Adult section of the store, a section any parent doing their job the way they should, would keep their children out of by their own hands. There'd be a difference if Walter was on a peg right beside an Age of Extinction Hound, or a G.I Joe, but that's patently not the case. It's in it's own, separate, clearly marked section.
The "adult section" is just another isle lol...
And still, you completely miss the point being made:
IT IS THE JOB OF THE PARENT, NOT THE BUSINESS OWNER, NOR THE GOVERNMENT, TO MONITOR HIS OR HER CHILD. This kind of mindless thinking, like "Gamestop sells GTA and Call of Duty! Let's try to force them to drop their stock and tell them how to run their business" needs to stop.
And the consumer has a right to protest or abstain from shopping at a specific store. Tehy also can make others aware of why they don't want to.

It's up to the store at that point to decide whether it's worth it to carry that product or not anymore.

Consumers have that power over companies. It's neither unreasonable nor is it mindless.

This article has nothing to do with bad parenting though lol...

Edit: the government plays a rold in safety issues and well they do monitor what's sold or not as there are certain permits or licenses needed to be obtained to do any of that.
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Fenrir.Candlejack said: »
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So is it ok for Toys'r'us to have a adult section for 18 and up (or 21 and up, whatever the legal adult age is in your country), to sell sex toys?

I haven't been in a Toys'r'us for years, but my impression is that it's a place for lots of kids to roam around and play with things. For a parent to be concerned about the kind of content their children may find in there isn't too surprising.

While you can say she's being over protective, there's probably a certain degree of responsibility on the business, targeting at young kids, to think about what they sell and how they sell them.

If their "15 and up" section is guarded by staff and stopping little kids from going in there then maybe it makes sense.

To say this is bad parenting is harsh. I'd say it's bad parenting if she finds that her kid is selling drugs and blame it on this toy. But all i see is a concerned mother, and she may or may not be over the top on her response to this depending on your views.
The last sex toy TRU carried was the Harry Potter broom. You probably remember that one. Little girls stealing it from their brothers to get themselves off.

It's bad parenting because a proper parent, actually doing his or her job, keeps an eye on their children. You know, the standard stuff. "What toys are you looking at? Who are your friends? What games do you play on the computer?" and talks to their children to educate them. This woman is clearly not able or not willing to do that, seeking instead to push the job off on a corporate entity.
Explain how she is not able or willing to do that?
 
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Ramyrez said: »
Candlejack agrees with me. I may need to reconsider my stance have an emergency vasectomy to save the planet from the horror of my offspring.
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Shiva.Nikolce said: »
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Candlejack agrees with me. I may need to reconsider my stance have an emergency vasectomy to save the planet from the horror of my offspring.

Was already considering one. But that's another issue entirely.
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Fenrir.Candlejack said: »
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So is it ok for Toys'r'us to have a adult section for 18 and up (or 21 and up, whatever the legal adult age is in your country), to sell sex toys?

I haven't been in a Toys'r'us for years, but my impression is that it's a place for lots of kids to roam around and play with things. For a parent to be concerned about the kind of content their children may find in there isn't too surprising.

While you can say she's being over protective, there's probably a certain degree of responsibility on the business, targeting at young kids, to think about what they sell and how they sell them.

If their "15 and up" section is guarded by staff and stopping little kids from going in there then maybe it makes sense.

To say this is bad parenting is harsh. I'd say it's bad parenting if she finds that her kid is selling drugs and blame it on this toy. But all i see is a concerned mother, and she may or may not be over the top on her response to this depending on your views.
The last sex toy TRU carried was the Harry Potter broom. You probably remember that one. Little girls stealing it from their brothers to get themselves off.

It's bad parenting because a proper parent, actually doing his or her job, keeps an eye on their children. You know, the standard stuff. "What toys are you looking at? Who are your friends? What games do you play on the computer?" and talks to their children to educate them. This woman is clearly not able or not willing to do that, seeking instead to push the job off on a corporate entity.

There's a difference between Toys R Us openly selling sex toys to a kid using something that is a stick inappropriately. The latter I agree is a parenting problem. The former would probably be considered socially inappropriate to a lot of people, unless maybe they have it in a hidden corner with staff monitoring who's going into that section.

To say it's bad parenting just because a mother is concerned about an environment where she feels has content that is not appropriate for kids and wishes to do something about it is overly harsh. Some feels there's a need to be like a CCTV and monitor their child's every move, some feels children should be in a safe enough environment to play around in a controlled area, without having the need to monitor their every move. I don't think neither are bad parenting. It's just different point of views. Plus saying the woman isn't prepared to keep an eye on her child just because she feels Toys R us is selling something inappropriate is a very big assumption.
 
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Fenrir.Candlejack said: »
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So is it ok for Toys'r'us to have a adult section for 18 and up (or 21 and up, whatever the legal adult age is in your country), to sell sex toys?

I haven't been in a Toys'r'us for years, but my impression is that it's a place for lots of kids to roam around and play with things. For a parent to be concerned about the kind of content their children may find in there isn't too surprising.

While you can say she's being over protective, there's probably a certain degree of responsibility on the business, targeting at young kids, to think about what they sell and how they sell them.

If their "15 and up" section is guarded by staff and stopping little kids from going in there then maybe it makes sense.

To say this is bad parenting is harsh. I'd say it's bad parenting if she finds that her kid is selling drugs and blame it on this toy. But all i see is a concerned mother, and she may or may not be over the top on her response to this depending on your views.
The last sex toy TRU carried was the Harry Potter broom. You probably remember that one. Little girls stealing it from their brothers to get themselves off.

It's bad parenting because a proper parent, actually doing his or her job, keeps an eye on their children. You know, the standard stuff. "What toys are you looking at? Who are your friends? What games do you play on the computer?" and talks to their children to educate them. This woman is clearly not able or not willing to do that, seeking instead to push the job off on a corporate entity.
Explain how she is not able or willing to do that?
If she's trying to get the entire adult section removed, that pretty much proves she's unwilling or unable to do what she's supposed to. Which, in this case, is to slap her child on the hand and say "no" if the child tries to go into that section of the store.
That's not what she's trying to do at all.

Not only do you not even seem to understand what the "adult section" in the store is or how the store is set up but you haven't even seemed to have read the article well enough to understand what the woman was trying to do. This only had to do with the Walter White doll. She didn't even decry the show itself and even went as far to say that she enjoyed it herself but that she thought that a meth dealing doll had no place in a children's store and questioned the Toys R Us vision and values.
 
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She doesn't, that's why it's a petition. She has an opinion and invited others who feels the same way to sign it. If a lot of people signs it, it means there are enough people to be concerned about the issue for business to consider this (and they very well should, as they are their potential customers). Last time i checked the article didn't say she held the CEO of Toys R Us at gun point to threaten the company to withdraw the product.

I'm sure you can also make a petition to stop Toys R Us to give in if you are so concerned about parents forcing the world to conform into their views.

Either way, I still don't think this has anything to do with bad parenting, unless you know something that we don't (e.g. her son is a drug dealer and she's blaming this on the toys he's been playing with)
 
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Saying that those figures don't belong in Toys R Us is akin to saying Adult Swim doesn't belong on the same channel as the rest of Cartoon Network. You're saying that it has to be all or nothing. If part of it is meant for kids then all of it should be.

Except they're not the same. The FCC can explain why.

The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable and satellite channel content. They are under no legal obligation to be family friendly at all.

No matter how Toys R Us may bill themselves they also are under no obligation to sell only to children. Their mission statement is hardly a legal document, and even if it were, selling a drug dealer action figure is only subjectively child unfriendly.

The sex toy thing is just a straw man and likely covered under local laws anyway. A figure of a drug dealer hardly constitutes pornography.
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I think I'll start a petition for TRU to start selling ***, buttplugs and furry handcuffs... That'll make it more convenient for me when I go there to buy my limited edition TRU Transformers
 
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Fenrir.Camiie said: »
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Saying that those figures don't belong in Toys R Us is akin to saying Adult Swim doesn't belong on the same channel as the rest of Cartoon Network. You're saying that it has to be all or nothing. If part of it is meant for kids then all of it should be.

Except they're not the same. The FCC can explain why.

The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable and satellite channel content. They are under no legal obligation to be family friendly at all.

No matter how Toys R Us may bill themselves they also are under no obligation to sell only to children. Their mission statement is hardly a legal document, and even if it were, selling a drug dealer action figure is only subjectively child unfriendly.

The sex toy thing is just a straw man and likely covered under local laws anyway. A figure of a drug dealer hardly constitutes pornography.
And consumers are under no obligation to shop there.

Why do you think they publicize mission statements like that?
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Odin.Drakus said: »
I think I'll start a petition for TRU to start selling ***, buttplugs and furry handcuffs... That'll make it more convenient for me when I go there to buy my limited edition TRU Transformers
they sell handcuffs already... they only sell *** like objects and I'm sure you could shove one of those toys up your ***...
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Amazing this thread made it past page 1.. coming up on page 4 is horrific.
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TRU should sell Gundam model kits.
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Fenrir.Candlejack said: »
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I think I'll start a petition for TRU to start selling ***, buttplugs and furry handcuffs... That'll make it more convenient for me when I go there to buy my limited edition TRU Transformers
Mah Niggah!! Who do you keep on your desk as your "desk buddy"? I, myself, have an old Dark of the Moon MechTech Starscream on mine.

For a long time I had the mini Devastator that was a KB Toys exclusive. I've also had various incarnations of Soundwave, mostly because I'm enthralled with the cassettes and because *** Blaster. I really dug the round Generations versions despite not liking vehicle mode for Soundwave (or Blaster for that matter).
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Lakshmi.Flavin said: »
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I think I'll start a petition for TRU to start selling ***, buttplugs and furry handcuffs... That'll make it more convenient for me when I go there to buy my limited edition TRU Transformers
they sell handcuffs already... they only sell *** like objects and I'm sure you could shove one of those toys up your ***...
Yeah, no thanks, I said buttplug, not something like a buttplug.
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Fenrir.Camiie said: »
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Saying that those figures don't belong in Toys R Us is akin to saying Adult Swim doesn't belong on the same channel as the rest of Cartoon Network. You're saying that it has to be all or nothing. If part of it is meant for kids then all of it should be.

Except they're not the same. The FCC can explain why.

The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable and satellite channel content. They are under no legal obligation to be family friendly at all.
Wrong.

Control is limited but not gone completely.
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/faqs-television-and-cable


Most notably: 47 U.S.C. §559 and 18 U.S.C. §1468(a)
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Just ship all those toys to like Bakersfield kids are gonna learn to sell meth anyway there so at least give them some toys appropriate to their future



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