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Complaint and offence culture cancels a childrens' toy

[Deleted User]

very disturbing to read this. assorted cranks and their complaints have resulted in a Doll being removed from sale.

The toy and the marketing seem fairly innocuous. It seems some people have a problem with the word "adoption".

"Brown Thomas Arnotts entirely agree that the experience of adoption has been varied in Ireland, and we take on board the views expressed in the programme.

"To that end, we will today stop selling the FAO adoption dolls in all Brown Thomas and Arnotts stores,” Brown Thomas Arnotts told Liveline.

One person said it was “humiliating” to see adoption marketed as toys as the “adoption triangle comes with grief, pain and love” for adoptees and adoptive parents alike."

Absolute sacks of misery all of them, so i do suppose they are perfectly at home on liveline

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/brown-thomas-and-arnotts-take-adoption-dolls-off-their-shelves-following-complaints-41139483.html

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CPTM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118303173#Comment_118303173

This story is annoying alright but that's a bit of a leap. What you're complaining about is them exaggerating something but then it does feel like you're exaggerating the consequences of it.

If you are a decent person and work half-hard without being an idiot it's incredible difficult to lose your job in this country. This kind of stuff doesn't extend into anything any normal day to day person would care about. It does happen but normally with things which don't really matter, like kids toys or reality tv or tv personalities or tv shows or whatnot. If it stretched into a lot of decent people losing their jobs or homes or their kids being taken away or not getting educated or took away people's rights in general there would be uproar. Still though, they are annoying. But there are loads of annoying sects of people. Luckily the vast majority of people see what's really going on here and move on with their day. I prefer chatting to them.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118303206#Comment_118303206

Cabbage patch cancellation.

DarkJager21

Just think of what the world will be like in a few years time if people like this don’t get told to go **** themselves - nobody is allowed to be offended, nobody & nothing is allowed to cause offence. Any bit of fun or quirkiness will be stamped out lest someone cry over it or have their feelings hurt. We are pandering way too much to those weak of body and mind.

[Deleted User]

Adopting a doll is in no way comparable to adopting a baby. By all means, buy a doll, name it and wait for it to become a teenager.

Dempo1

This nonsense took up most of liveline today, it was just absolutely absurd . How the two callers connect a Toy doll to what happened in the magdelan laundries/ mother and baby homes is just extraordinary. What made it all the more extraordinary was the less than objective and clearly uneducated Joe Duffy joining in the outrage.

The Toy in question is not the first adoption type Toy to come out of America. I'm not in anyway doubting what happened in mother and baby homes but my god , the plot was lost today, what next ,Ban Barbie, utter nonsense.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118303195#Comment_118303195

The Cabbage Patch Dolls are now next

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118303173#Comment_118303173

Tbf if you are stupid enough to post controversial stuff while being identifiable that’s really on you.

wyrn

Sure there's already the Cabbage Patch dolls which have birth certs and adoption papers and they're still going strong

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118303120#Comment_118303120

disturbed because of how a few cranks can get their way. if a child's toy can be cancelled like this, anyone or anything can be cancelled. For example you lose your job because a couple of halfwits complained to your employer about your personal opinions expressed on boards

Jequ0n

Politicizing toys and children is just weird.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118303146#Comment_118303146

Well the target audience for this doll are too young to have babies of their own, hence the "adoption" of the doll. Perfectly appropriate.

In general adoption is a good thing, and sure beats multiple foster homes edit( i am adopted)

Yurt2

'An Adoption doll'

Whatever toy company exec green-lit that deserves to be shot 🤣

I'm sure people who were adopted love to be reminded they were given up by their birth parents when they enter a toy store.

uptherebels

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058222316/complaint-and-offence-culture-cancels-a-childrens-toy

Why would you be disturbed by a shop no longer selling a toy?