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Bette Midler took to Twitter this week to weigh in on the controversy surrounding the Mr. Potato Head toy following Hasbro s decision to rebrand the line.
Earlier this week, the classic toy brand, which includes the Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head, announced the line will soon be rebranded as the Potato Head in order to better reflect the full line. The brand stresses, however, that neither of the individual Mr. or Mrs. Potato Head toys will be renamed.
In a tweet on Monday, the outspoken actress doesn t seem concerned with the gender-neutral switch but said she does find it troubling that the variety of plastic body parts for each toy can detach and be stored in its backside.
Meanwhile, republican politician Lauren Boebert called for the phrase “come on, man” to be cancelled in favour of “come on, person” in the name of inclusivity, totally misunderstanding the reasoning behind the Potato Head rebrand.
Equally terrible, Piers Morgan weighed in by criticising the name change for being done in the middle of the pandemic to pacify “a few wokies”… as if Potato Head was holding the COVID-19 vaccine hostage or something.
Then there was the literal US House Judiciary Committee trying to use a clip from
Toy Story, where Potato Head, a fictional potato, tells Woody, a fictional cowboy, that it’s “Mr Potato Head to you, you backstabbing murderer” to try and fight the Hasbro rebrand.
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