{"id":663,"date":"2012-11-04T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T11:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=663"},"modified":"2012-11-04T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T16:28:28","slug":"ms-should-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/ms-should-know-better\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;S should know better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erica has tweeted, posted to Facebook and blogged about gender stereotyping in the past but this is a first for me. I would have thought that M&amp;S would have known better than this.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a nice big magnet <em>IDEAL FOR LITTLE HANDS<\/em> but then they go and put <em>BOY STUFF<\/em> on the opposite corner of the box. This is just so WRONG. I can be equally offensive and say that the BOY STUFF is put on there to let girls know &#8211; they would be able to read it but the boys wouldn&#8217;t at that age. The boys have been too busy playing with their trucks and diggers and guns to do sissy stuff like reading.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Magnets are Boy Stuff by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8153374499\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8064\/8153374499_e4edb0c09b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Magnets are Boy Stuff\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And next to it was this megaphone with 3 voices Spaceman, Robot and Alien. Perhaps they should have added a 4th for when it&#8217;s not switched on or the batteries are flat &#8211; <em>Misogynist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boy Stuff Voice Changer by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8153375695\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7115\/8153375695_3605881b1c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Boy Stuff Voice Changer\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had no intention of buying one but I did ask a member of staff if they had one for a girl (shock! horror!). She said they did not have them in different packaging; which suggested she had thought about the issue, others might have simply said &#8220;Sorry, We don&#8217;t have them for girls.&#8221; She suggested taking it out of the packaging before wrapping it. Sensible, but so unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica has tweeted, posted to Facebook and blogged about gender stereotyping in the past but this is a first for me. I would have thought that M&amp;S would have known better than this. Here is a nice big magnet IDEAL FOR LITTLE HANDS but then they go and put BOY STUFF on the opposite corner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}