A Young Girl Asked for Green Army Women and the Toy Company Listened

You probably played with those famous little green Army men at one point or another – especially if you’re a male. But the Army men toy game was recently turned on its head when BMC Toys, the company that manufactures those little green guys, received a letter from a 6-year-old girl from Arkansas.

The little girl, Vivian Lord, sent a letter to the company that read, “My name is Vivian. I am six years old. Why do you not make girl army men. Some girls don’t like pink, so please can you make army girls that look like women? I would play with them every day and my friends would too!”

And the folks at BMC Toys took notice and decided to do something about it.

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The President of BMC Toys, Jeff Imel, said, “It was a heartfelt letter. And it reminded me of being a kid and always wanting that toy that you couldn’t get in the gumball machine. So I really looked into it.”

Imel said the company did some research and decided to produce a line of female soldier toys that will be available by Christmas 2020. The new female army toys will come in four poses.

Imel said, “What’s been really surprising to me is how many women have contacted me since Vivian’s story aired on national television to say they wish they had little Green Army Women when they were children back in the ’60s.”

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It wasn’t an easy decision either. Imel is the only full-time employee at BMC and he explained the process: “I have to pay the sculptor. I have to pay the tooling. I have to make a down payment on production. If it’s coming from China, it’s on a boat for five weeks. By the time you figure out the cost of everything involved in making an original set of plastic toy figures in this size,” he said. “It starts around the cost of a modest new car.”

Imel added, “Every kid wants to be the hero of their story. It shouldn’t be up to us to decide who the hero is. Girls should be able to connect to the toys just as much as boys do.”

It may be pricey, but it will obviously be worth it once these toys hit the market. And it’s all due to young Vivian Lord’s decision to step up and write a letter. I have a feeling this girl is going to be a real trailblazer!

I can’t wait to see what the toys look like when they’re completed!

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March 20, 2019

Sexist Guy Posts His “12 Rules for Beautiful Women,” Gets Destroyed by the Internet

What is it with sexist jerks trying to tell other people how to live? It’s absolutely ridiculous. The only solace I have is that the internet tends to put them back in their place pretty quick.

Take Alexander J.A. Cortes, for example. The self-proclaimed “trainer”, “writer”, and speaker recently took to Twitter and laid out his 12 rules for “How to be a Beautiful Woman.”

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Cortes has a history of tweeting out misogynistic views so this was really nothing new, but it caused a lot of people to respond nonetheless.

Here’s the tweet heard ’round the world that set off such a firestorm.

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Cortes continued…

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“Only a man can tell a woman how act.” Wow. And then he ended on this note.

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As you can probably imagine, women were pretty livid.

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Cortes obviously is a Grade A-level troll and he replied to his haters with another Tweetstorm.

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This “roadmap” he mentions was a retweet from this guy.

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Unless you’re blind, you can see that this guy is quite the catch. And the ladies let it loose once again.

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And, finally…

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THE END.

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December 31, 2018

Woman Gets Added to a Sexist Group Chat About Her, Puts It on Facebook

Eleanor Henry was a law student at Melbourne University who had something both mortifying and appalling happen to her not long ago.

Her peers were apparently sexualizing and objectifying her in a group chat and… somebody unwittingly added her to it.

Needless to say, she was quickly removed from the chat, but not before she saw everything they had said and took a lot of screenshots. And then she shared (almost) all of it to Facebook.

Get ready for a shockingly sexist ride!

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Her Facebook post reads:

“Let’s all wave hello to my fellow peers at Melbourne University. This is why I’ll die a feminist. It’s 2016.. Let’s get back to that conversation on equality.

Oh and for those asking, they accidentally added me to their chat group without realizing I could read everything prior.”

But here’s the thing… Henry was incredibly nice. Because, as she told the Daily Mail Australia, she wouldn’t “publicly name and shame the men.”

Her restraint is even more impressive considering what they wrote:

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All that, and they also said, “Bring her to Thailand. We need a bike.”

“Aside from this contact, I have never really engaged with them on a social level,” Eleanor told the Daily Mail. In fact, several of the people in the chat were guys she had never even met before.

Reading the messages made Eleanor feel physically ill, and her sister suggested that she expose this particular “kind of rape culture” by posting the messages to Facebook. (With all the profile pics and names blurred out, of course.)

Apparently, after Henry posted the messages, one of the guys involved begged her to take them down:

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Yeah, his case wasn’t terribly convincing, was it? No worry about the ethical implications involved in joking about gang-banging a female friend. Just worried about being caught.

Luckily for him, he and his friends remain anonymous.

On her decision not to name the boys involved, Eleanor explained, “It’s not particularly relevant in achieving the outcome I wish to pursue on a larger scale, which ultimately is to bring awareness about the issue and have people understand that it should not be merely written off as ‘boys being boys.’”

Just more proof that “locker room talk” often has nothing to do with the locker room.

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May 14, 2018

These 12 Comics from the 1930s Prove That People Never Change

These Latvian comics from the 1930s feature “everyday” people going about their lives – the “humor,” I suppose, is in the fact that the inside jokes are widely and easily understood.

Which pretty much means human beings have been awful for a long while.