http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201..._toys.html

You quite literally cant make this chit up!

In the fall of 2008, when I was 11 years old, I wrote to the CEO of McDonald’s and asked him to change the way his stores sold Happy Meals. I expressed my frustration that McDonald’s always asked if my family preferred a “girl toy” or a “boy toy” when we ordered a Happy Meal at the drive-through. My letter asked if it would be legal for McDonald’s “to ask at a job interview whether someone wanted a man’s job or a woman’s job?”

A few weeks later, I received a short response from a McDonald’s customer satisfaction representative claiming that McDonald’s doesn’t train their employees to ask whether Happy Meal customers want boys’ or girls’ toys, and my experiences were not the norm.

This response was unsatisfying, so I began visiting more than a dozen local McDonald’s locations with my father to collect data. Ultimately, we brought a complaint to the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities against McDonald’s for discriminating on the basis of sex. Despite our evidence showing that, in our test, McDonald’s employees described the toys in gendered terms more than 79 percent of the time, the commission dismissed our allegations as “absurd” and solely for the purposes of “titilation [sic] and sociological experimentation.” All in all, this was a pretty humiliating defeat.

But I still couldn’t let it go. When the commission was considering our claims in 2008, one of the McDonald’s stores accused us of “conveniently stop[ping the] experiment short to concoct this case.” The store claimed that if I had just asked for a boy’s toy they would have been happy to oblige. So this past summer, we decided to test this assertion.

In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.

(04-22-2014 07:46 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201..._toys.html

You quite literally cant make this chit up!

In the fall of 2008, when I was 11 years old, I wrote to the CEO of McDonald’s and asked him to change the way his stores sold Happy Meals. I expressed my frustration that McDonald’s always asked if my family preferred a “girl toy” or a “boy toy” when we ordered a Happy Meal at the drive-through. My letter asked if it would be legal for McDonald’s “to ask at a job interview whether someone wanted a man’s job or a woman’s job?”

A few weeks later, I received a short response from a McDonald’s customer satisfaction representative claiming that McDonald’s doesn’t train their employees to ask whether Happy Meal customers want boys’ or girls’ toys, and my experiences were not the norm.

This response was unsatisfying, so I began visiting more than a dozen local McDonald’s locations with my father to collect data. Ultimately, we brought a complaint to the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities against McDonald’s for discriminating on the basis of sex. Despite our evidence showing that, in our test, McDonald’s employees described the toys in gendered terms more than 79 percent of the time, the commission dismissed our allegations as “absurd” and solely for the purposes of “titilation [sic] and sociological experimentation.” All in all, this was a pretty humiliating defeat.

But I still couldn’t let it go. When the commission was considering our claims in 2008, one of the McDonald’s stores accused us of “conveniently stop[ping the] experiment short to concoct this case.” The store claimed that if I had just asked for a boy’s toy they would have been happy to oblige. So this past summer, we decided to test this assertion.

In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.

What is wrong with liberals and their kids? Can anyone explain it?

Jesus H Christ, is this for real? No, this can't be real. This kid needs to meet my 15 year old son and have the liberal snot kicked out of him.


No, sorry, this story just can't be for realz, no teenager can be that insanely liberal. The kid needs help. He's obviously crying out for the attention he's lacking at home and in his social circles. He (she?) probably hasn't figured out what gender he (she?) ultimately wants to be.

And why does this little sh!t keep using the terms "we" and "our?" Who's behind this kid setting him up for a life of liberal misery? Someone call CPS.

At least I know this didn't happen in San Francisco, they banned toys with Happy Meals.

Idiot parents

Wow, laughable.

I like how McDonald's toys that upset freaks are a human rights issue.

MSNBC should contact this individual...........sounds like a great prime-time host.

The article reads like some anti-leftwing satire by The Onion.

Guys, I found the guy that wrote that article.

(04-22-2014 07:46 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.[/i]

OK, I'm no statistician but how do you get 42.8% stores as a fraction of 15 stores? 6 of the stores refusing makes 40%, 7 makes 46.6%.

(04-22-2014 10:19 PM)ODUgradstudent Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:46 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.[/i]

OK, I'm no statistician but how do you get 42.8% stores as a fraction of 15 stores? 6 of the stores refusing makes 40%, 7 makes 46.6%.

Common core.

(04-22-2014 10:20 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 10:19 PM)ODUgradstudent Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:46 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.[/i]

OK, I'm no statistician but how do you get 42.8% stores as a fraction of 15 stores? 6 of the stores refusing makes 40%, 7 makes 46.6%.

Common core.

(04-22-2014 10:19 PM)ODUgradstudent Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:46 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.

OK, I'm no statistician but how do you get 42.8% stores as a fraction of 15 stores? 6 of the stores refusing makes 40%, 7 makes 46.6%.

15 stores but 30 visits. Also, possible that some visits involved one child, some visits involved more than one child, etc.

I'm guessing that the total # of toys handed out was a factor of 14, because 42.86% = 6/14 and 92.9% = 13/14.

(04-22-2014 10:23 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 10:19 PM)ODUgradstudent Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:46 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.

OK, I'm no statistician but how do you get 42.8% stores as a fraction of 15 stores? 6 of the stores refusing makes 40%, 7 makes 46.6%.

15 stores but 30 visits. Also, possible that some visits involved one child, some visits involved more than one child, etc.

I'm guessing that the total # of toys handed out was a factor of 14, because 42.86% = 6/14 and 92.9% = 13/14.

In Common Core math you would get an A because you were able to explain how you got an answer that even you admit is just a guess.

(04-22-2014 10:23 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 10:19 PM)ODUgradstudent Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 07:46 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonald’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonald’s had designated for that child’s gender—a Justice fashion toy for girls and a Power Rangers toy for boys. What's worse was the trouble the children encountered when they immediately returned to the counter and asked to exchange their unopened toy: 42.8 percent of stores refused to exchange for an opposite-sex toy.

OK, I'm no statistician but how do you get 42.8% stores as a fraction of 15 stores? 6 of the stores refusing makes 40%, 7 makes 46.6%.

15 stores but 30 visits. Also, possible that some visits involved one child, some visits involved more than one child, etc.

I'm guessing that the total # of toys handed out was a factor of 14, because 42.86% = 6/14 and 92.9% = 13/14.

It says 42.8% of stores and they visited 15 stores. 42.8% of purchases or 42.8% of visits may be different, but they didn't say that. They either can't read, they can't 'rite or they can't 'rithmetic. They need to go back to elementary school and study their three Rs.

I sucked at algebra and calculus, but for some reasons fractions and %s always came easy to me.

heaven forfend the restaraunt wanted to try their best to make the kids who bought a happy meal . . . happy. the bastards.

what percentage of these annoying busybody lib spawn had to have the toy surgically removed from . . . Never mind.

If Antonia keeps eating these happy meals, she'll never snag a man

(04-22-2014 11:19 PM)supertiger Wrote:  If Antonia keeps eating these happy meals, she'll never snag a man

Antonia will buy an appliance. and the appliance will jump off the dresser to its death the first time it gets the chance.