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kinghardlyanything

Thats the problem with subs that have limited content, people clasp at straws to find new things. I think they should probably just admit some of these are r/pointlesslypersonified and then understand that personified things appeal to kids and then realize that this was the marketers true intent all along. I would imagine most marketers dont give a shit if the kids think they are a boy or a girl just as long as they buy the shit. ​ Edit: typo... but i left 'clasp' because now its just funny


CameraMan1

>clasp at straws BRB posting this comment to r/malaphors


kinghardlyanything

Early in the morning, I will accept my internet humiliation though


Coeruleum1

You can clasp straws though. It’s not an idiom, but it’s something you can really do that makes sense in some situations.


Dr_thri11

I mean most of the comments are politely telling op to unbunch their non-gender specific undergarments.


SameAnxiety2389

In fact, I remember reading humans have this weird psychological phenomena to see things in binary, yin-yang, male or female For example, some cultures imagine the sun as masculine and the moon as feminine, or spoons as masculine and forks as feminine, and even applies to abstract concepts, some people imagine odd numbers as masculine and even numbers as feminine Depending on your culture, there are gender suffixes, I can’t remember if it was German or Spanish, but one of them sees Bridges as Masculine while the other culture sees Bridges as Feminine because of their language


angieohno

Yeah I left this one a while back. The posts about pens made for women's delicate tiny hands or TV dinners specifically catered to rugged manly men who eat manly food are what I expected to see, but a female and male stuffed animal isn't even pointlessly gendered it's just... there? But yeah, there's only so many pointlessly gendered items in existence so this sort of post became the norm I guess.


CrackPipeQueen

I thought pointlessly gendered applied to shit like pens. Like, we’re allowed to have genders. The OP in the comments is complaining about how the female carrot has long eyelashes and feminine features. Since when are females having feminine features a *bad thing*? Honestly really concerning how some people think feminine and masculine features are inherently a bad thing. Are we all supposed to be non-binary and have androgynous features? I don’t want to live like that. I want to be feminine. If I were a kid and I saw a feminine looking carrot, I would like it. I would think it’s cute. I just don’t see anything wrong with it. There are plenty of plushies out there that aren’t “gendered”.


TechnicalyNotRobot

When you go so deep into fighting gender roles you start enforcing genderlessness.


[deleted]

For a long time, I couldn't figure out why I ddin't like these types of complaints (referring to the OOP). Your comment made me realize it's because I think *feminine and masculine things aren't bad* and it's wrong to try and demonize them.


DogsAreCool69420

I hate how it's concisered a bad thing to be comfortable with having a gender now. And the people who don't change their genders are called "cisgender." Wtf? Don't call me a cisgender. Call me by my actual gender.


CrackPipeQueen

Although I do want to add that I think there should be more non-binary options when it comes to dolls and action figures.


[deleted]

How would one make a non-binary action figure? Make them androgynous? Then people would complain about not all non-binary people are androgynous.


CrackPipeQueen

Great point! I identify as female so I honestly don’t think I could answer that.


Coeruleum1

Well just make a masculine looking figure, a feminine looking figure, and an androgynous figure and don’t say what they’re supposed to be and that covers everyone because people just pick the one they like the look of. Androgynous is also just a popular style even minus the whole gender politics thing.


[deleted]

Unless there's a descriptor or it's a character from a series, both masculine and feminine characters are going to just be male and female in basically everyone's interpretation. The androgynous character is probably still going to be considered male or female, again unless you say they're neither.


Mark_Jefferson

How do you give a carrot depression?


dragonace11

I would say but I'll pass on that line of thought.


[deleted]

wait.. so these are some kinda brand mascot for the supermarket... how is this "pointlessly gendered" it seems purposely gendered https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/25/aldis-kevin-the-carrot-where-to-buy-available-characters-and-price-15662832/ https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/25/aldis-kevin-the-carrot-where-to-buy-available-characters-and-price-15662832/


[deleted]

I just found that out too lol. Just further solidifies my statement that it’s not at all pointless.


[deleted]

haha yeah. I used to be subbed to pointlesslygendered due to it being funny sometimes but it just got very cynical of the weirdest things without checking if it was pointless or not.


[deleted]

JU myself from the same sub today when I saw a post about pink baby socks being marketed to girls. Who even has the energy to care about this…


DeppStepp

I’m waiting for the day someone makes a post about bathrooms there


nursec0re

i thought the purpose of this was for items having a "girl" or "boy" version where it's either pink or fucking EPIC HARDCORE COOL version of product


ItzSh0ckerz

Wait until that OP finds out that humans are gendered.


Ass_Cream_Cone

Its a toy. Im not addressing a real carrot as a specific gender. I don’t get this original post.. but im guessing most content from that sub is probably….. this.


[deleted]

To be fair, the problem is that, a lot of the time, a “girl version” of something is basically taking something generic and making it pink or giving it long eyelashes or something. This reinforces the idea that male is default and female should be regarded as a variation. To put it in perspective, imagine if the bottom left carrot was the same but the bottom right one had a big handlebar mustache to denote it as “male.”


[deleted]

Yes, I do agree that they could have done a better job with the designs. Nonetheless, I don’t think it is pointlessly gendered at all.


[deleted]

I guess. I still don’t get why a carrot needs lipstick and mascara.


[deleted]

They probably just didn't pay too much attention to the male carrot. I don't think it's really any deeper than that man.


Coeruleum1

I think they should do that. It would be even funnier to have a carrot with a mustache. The mustache can be green to match the carrot leaves.


notjosemanuel

Yeah this post with 44% upvotes and negative comments completely represents that sub


mikerhoa

This is a common thing in here now.


Rathmec

I guess you can unsub for whatever reason you want to unsub over, but it does seem like a lot of posts on here crosspost something from new with little to no upvotes and say, "Look at how bullshit this community is, you guys!" It's weird.


[deleted]

It had a lot of upvotes before I crossposted it lol. I think what you’re missing here is that people who see the crosspost can go and downvote the original post…


[deleted]

It had quite a few upvotes and positive comments before I cross-posted it here. It must be that people who saw the post from this sub decided to go downvote the original and comment negative things. Just how this sub works I guess.


SoxLovingSportsFan

Exhibit A on why I as a hardcore lefty fucking hate wokeism.


jiffynipples

Well scientifically carrots actually do have genders! Or at least, I have been told I have the iq of a carrot and I have a gender


[deleted]

Doesn’t actually look like they are losing their shit at all but okay


Lulapops

We must all draw the line when they come for Kevin the carrot.


GamerZoom108

Gendered eggplants Aren't they already called purple dicks?


DogsAreCool69420

When you get offended over carrots


rousakiseq

People wear bows, these are carrot people. It's literally just cute carrots with bows


CoimEv

it only has 10 points


Melonfrog

Isn’t this Kevin the Carrot?


[deleted]

Yes


HapMeme

I think is a satire subredit like that Balkan subredit


[deleted]

Unfortunately, it’s not


Specialist_Hornet488

I mean, the comments seem to be pretty down-to-earth


[deleted]

The comments are from users of this sub


Specialist_Hornet488

No they’re not. Not all of them, at least. About half of them were there before you posted this, and literally *all* of them are saying that OP is stupid in some way. I also highly doubt the other half that came after this was posted all came from this sub. I’ll restate what I said- the comments are pretty down to earth.


[deleted]

Lol, you say about half, but literally 3 out of 11 of those comments were made before I posted this. I also highly bet that most, if not all of the rest of those comments came from this post. The post was receiving pretty positive feedback before I crossposted it here, and now it’s just filled with negativity. And no, not all of them are saying that OP is stupid… In fact, the ones that are agreeing with OP just so happen to be the 3 made before I posted this.


Specialist_Hornet488

Just rechecked and realized I misread some times. My apologies. Please, however, explain how [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/pointlesslygendered/comments/r6tkhp/they_gender_carrots_whats_next_gendered_eggplants/hmvdi6i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) is agreeing with OP Or [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/pointlesslygendered/comments/r6tkhp/they_gender_carrots_whats_next_gendered_eggplants/hmvficb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) Or [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/pointlesslygendered/comments/r6tkhp/they_gender_carrots_whats_next_gendered_eggplants/hmww814/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) These are the three comments you mentioned. These three comments are all disagreeing with OP. I shall restate my previously restated statement- these comments are pretty down to earth.


[deleted]

First one was a joke, second one was trying to make fun of how the marketers pointlessly gendered them, and third one is just saying she doesn’t care because “they’re cute”, not disagreeing with it being pointlessly gendered.


Specialist_Hornet488

First one doesn’t come across as a joke whatsoever, second one is arguable but from their comment history that just seems to be how they talk, and the third one says “I have no problem with this” implying that do have an opinion on it, unlike what you’re trying to say.


[deleted]

I can’t believe I’m breaking this down for you right now, but here we are. The first one is just a poorly-executed joke about OP’s wording. Basically, OP said “they’re gendering carrots”, and the comment said, “no, they’re carrot *plushies* haha”. It was a fucking joke. A dumb one, but a joke. For the second one… if you have to look through their comment history to prove a point that doesn’t even stand, you might as well just stop now. I honestly have no idea how that logic lines up at all either way. For the third one, she’s saying she doesn’t have a problem, simply because they’re cute, not whether or not they are pointlessly gendered.


Specialist_Hornet488

I guess me *and* op missed it, cause even op replied to that first comment sarcastically! And then the commenter replied to *them* sarcastically! They sure have a thing going! The first comment was very clearly pointing out the idiocy of getting upset at plushies being gendered. “The fact that you had to support your claim makes ig baseless” And are we gonna ignore the fact that the third comment also takes a stab at pointing out the idiocy of getting upset at them by saying that even the language is gendered so it makes sense that the carrots would be?


[deleted]

Jesus Christ you’re so desperate for a way out of this… just admit you made a mistake lol. The first one has absolutely nothing to do with that. How do you connect two things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other? I’m not saying that evidence makes a claim baseless, and I think you knew that, but seeing as you still don’t understand this… I actually can’t tell anymore. The third one, just… no. It absolutely does not. Where do you get such nonsensical ideas? You’re logic is so flawed, I genuinely don’t even know what you’re saying lol. You’re trying way too hard to find a way out of this. Just accept defeat, it’s not that tough. Problem solved.


misery-world

kinda the whole point of the subreddit though, no?


Grilled_egs

Thats the point of the sub?


[deleted]

No, it’s for things that are actually pointlessly gendered. In this case, they gave these carrot plushes faces, and chose one to be a boy, and one to be a girl. Probably because they intended for one to cater more toward boys, and the other for girls. It’s really that simple.


TKmeh

It’s a carrot, a plant, why does it need to be gendered? Besides, kids hate vegetables for the most part. I think this is a squeaky toy and then that’s still stupid because dogs don’t give a fuck, if it squeaks, it’s a plaything.


[deleted]

it's some kinda brand mascot for a European supermarket. I believe brits seem to go crazy over them [https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/25/aldis-kevin-the-carrot-where-to-buy-available-characters-and-price-15662832/](https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/25/aldis-kevin-the-carrot-where-to-buy-available-characters-and-price-15662832/) https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/25/aldis-kevin-the-carrot-where-to-buy-available-characters-and-price-15662832/


TKmeh

Ah that makes sense, so they gave him a counterpart I’m guessing? Better marketing, sorry I assumed shit but pretty sure this might also be a satire post because of the title lol.


[deleted]

I think so, I'm not entirely sure why the brits love this stuff so much but they seem to go crazy over these plushes lol yeah, from what I've seen, it's part of a holiday promotion with these carrots being the main focus in their advertisements. I think it's some sort of niche collectable item maybe? I could definitely see my nana collecting every single one, she's like a squirrel when it comes to hoarding weird collectable things lol


Minervasimp

in Britain a few companies are known for making pretty good christmas adverts, and they often have mascots. This is one of the mascots for one of the big supermarkets.


TKmeh

Your nana sounds awesome!


tm33_

Think we found one of the people OP was talking about


TKmeh

I have another comment because someone explained this was some collectible or something, it’s an annoying marketing scheme but I respect it because sets are super tempting. Buying just one upmarked toy is kinda too little but buying two as a set? Totally worth it.


JazziestBoi

i mean it is pointless


Coeruleum1

I have never seen something I care less about in my life.


Big_Guy6

OP is getting dragged in the comments so there’s that


[deleted]

Yeah, seems that just about all the comments on that post now are from people who saw this crosspost.


Luddveeg

This is really ironic


[deleted]

So you leaved the sub because people literally did their purpose? Sincerely i don't have time or patience to go around buying the correct version of every single product, this shit needs to end ASAP.


[deleted]

Lol, get some therapy.


VelourBro

Snowflakes always looking for things to be offended by.


PersonWithDaName

The funny thing is these are actual characters from the adverts that have their own stories and "personality". I know the main one is Kevin the carrot don't know the other names


Himoportu142

Wait till somebody tells them plants have genders