Target has given the Gingerbread Man a total makeover in its new “Gender Inclusive Gingerbread” Christmas sweater.
Gingerbread fans can buy the sweater for just $29.99.
Strangely, there are no unique features in the “Gender Inclusive Gingerbread” which makes it “gender-inclusive,” as can be seen in the photos of the product.
Moreover, there is no description available on the online store which can justify why Target is calling the product “Gender Inclusive Gingerbread Long Sleeve Sweater.”
Internet users are severely criticizing the product, saying that it’s just a sweatshirt having a figure that resembles Gingerbread Man.
It looks like, Target isn’t the only one to launch gender-inclusive products lately.
A coffee bar in Auckland, New Zealand, has recently launched its own brand of cookies, which they say are “gender-neutral,” the Mirror reports.
It all started when the coffee shop, called The Tannery, was serving human-shaped ‘gingerbread men’ to the customers. They changed the label after one of the customers asked owner Andre Cettina why the snacks were not called ‘gingerbread people.’
It was when the snacks were renamed to ‘gingerbread gender-neutral person.’
“It was completely tongue-in-cheek at the start,” Cettina said of the biscuits. “We’ve had a lot of people commenting saying ‘stop being so pedantic, it’s just a biscuit.’
“I had to reply to them going, ‘did you miss the whole point?’
“It used to be that 90 percent of the time we sold [the gingerbread biscuits], it was to kids. There’s a lot more people buying them now, which is quite funny.”
While some social media users found the whole thing funny, others were not so amused.
“PC gone mad, always been gingerbread man, why change now. It’s a biscuit, not a living creature. I find this all so sad!!” one Facebook user said.
“Me too! Soon we won’t be able to use the term human, we’ll all be hupeople,” another wrote.
Some internet users said the incident is important as it opens a really important discussion.
One person commented: “Not sure why people getting so mad. This is a conversation starter, and these issues won’t be dealt with until we are open to talking about them.
“People getting mad about this completely miss the point of what it could achieve.
“It isn’t ‘PC gone mad’, it’s an opportunity to take a good hard look at yourself and your feelings around a sensitive topic and do some real introspective work on why you feel the way you do.”
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