At the top of this list of things that really don’t need to be gendered is chocolate eggs. Yet here we are. Manaphy posted this photo of the original chocolate Kinder Surprise eggs alongside the pink version “for girls”. Now there’s really nothing wrong with making different colors of your product available. But specifying them as “for girls” because they’re pink and have supposed “girl toys” in them is just a sexist and outdated concept. Any kid should be able to play with any toy they want, regardless of their gender. Toys are toys.
For those who don’t know, (perhaps Americans, since Kinder Eggs are banned in the land of the free) Kinder Surprise is a milk chocolate egg surrounding a yellow plastic capsule with a small toy inside. Apparently the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) prohibited Kinder Eggs in the USA. This is because they don’t allow confectionary products that contain a “non-nutritive object”.
Anyway hobopoppins replied with a sad story about “THE F*CKING PINK EGGS” and a poor little boy who wasn’t allowed to have the chocolate egg that’s “only for girls”. This is exactly why we shouldn’t be pointlessly gendering chocolate eggs and random things for little kids:
Source: manaphy / hobopoppins
What do you think about the pink “for girls” Kinder Surprise Eggs? Can Americans really not buy these in the USA? If not I’m sorry because they are delicious. Leave a comment below!
Isn’t the pink one strawberry flavored, or something? That’s what I always assumed. I didn’t know they were stupid GENDERED, that’s dumb.
Companies gender things so they can [usually] charge women more, for example: razors, generic Rogaine, deoderent, shampoo, et. al.
I think, at least some of the pink eggs have “girly” toys in them…like cute flowers, and years ago I got some which had Disney princesses in them…