Mr ans Mrs Potato Head aren't good examples against transgender. I believe that their parts are interchangeable.
Since this thread started, I have been reminiscing on my childhood with the Potato People.
My first Mr. Potatoe Head came in an actual "bucket of parts" (as opposed to todays models that my kids have which came tied in a box- since you don't need a bucket to store parts seeing as how parts are stored inside the potato).
I knew that this was my MR. Potato Head...... (as in the man one)
Well, as a little girl I was delighted when I got a MRS. Potato Head! (Not sure where she came from, if she was new or used and passed onto me or what, but she had NOOO bucket to store her parts in) I always kept her dressed and knew that this was MRS.
Well, Mr. and Mrs. were always dressed accordingly UNTIL one day a friend was over and it was time to clean up. I didn't realize until later (might've been another day) that the potato people were stripped of EVERYTHING!
My friend couldn't get all the extra parts (purses, shoes, hats etc) to fit in their potato butts, so she threw EVERYTHING into the bucket ( I of course knew that not everything would fit inside, therefore one set of eyes, ears and mouth stayed on them and they rested on their shoes with hair and hats on...... everything else would then fit inside)
How was I going to know which potatoe was Mr. and which was Mrs.?
It was then I realized that there were
some parts the potato people don't have.
That was okay, life would go on. It just ment that moving forward Mr. would be whichever one was dressed in Mr. wear, and MRS. would be whichever one was dressed in her stuff, and everything would fit neatly in the bucket for storage (no more knocking potatos off the shelf
)
I must've been 7 or 8..................
NEVER in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine growing up and this actually being an issue.
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