Controversy over Hillary Clinton Nutcracker doll

[Tony_FLADEM]

Urban Outfitters is back in the spotlight again for their questionable product choices. This time it’s for the Hillary Clinton Nutcracker, an actual nutcracker in the shape of, you-guessed-it, Hillary Clinton. These days it seems as if Urban Outfitters’ marketing plan is largely based around generating press on derogatory items such as a “one of a kind sweatshirt featuring the Kent State University logo” with a suspicious blood-like spatter, and an array of T-shirts that perpetuate stereotypes against Native Americans, Mexicans, Jews, and Irish among others (at least the fact that no one is safe is slightly comforting?).

The Clinton Christmas stocking-stuffer is no exception to the retailer’s controversial rules. The gag gift has actually been around since at least 2007, along with its mate Corkscrew Bill Clinton, is part of the company’s online boutique that sells vintage, kitschy, one-of-a-kind items. The nutcraker, which has already sold out online and was available at $60, is absolutely sexist, sure, but it would be more insulting if it was any less boring. Calling powerful women nutcrackers reveals men’s fear of powerful women and this degrading school of thought is SO old-school! In the current cultural climate where “feminism” is the word buzzing on everyone’s lips and faux-misandry is the new irony, this nutcracker fails to become the mocking, demeaning thing that its creators probably intended it to be and instead is a sign of triumph



https://www.yahoo.com/style/urban-outfitters-sexism-hillary-clinton-102450505443.html

[shenmue]

1. What fucking idiots

[lunasun]

2. $60.??????? Wtf ?

[NYC_SKP]

3. I guess there are a lot of sexist jokes in poor taste going on with that product.

I don't remember seeing it before, but it's easy to believe that it's been around since 2007.

[LeftInTX]

4. Rec - for the weirdness of it all

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. 10.50 on Amazon, though

http://www.amazon.com/CSB-Commodities-HCN1-Hillary-Nutcracker/dp/B000UB0004

[MADem]

6. The title of the article was **Urban Outfitters' Hillary Clinton Nutcracker Is Horribly Sexist**

Why didn't you post the article title?


There's no "controversy" here--it's a shit portrayal, it's sexist, disgraceful, offensive, childish, etc.

No "controversy." Piss poor taste. Childish. WRONG. Even the referenced tweets at the end of the article say as much.








I'd like to UNREC this thread, if I could, simply for the bogus subject title.

[DBoon]

7. Controversy?

This is clearly a misogynist attack against a popular presidential candidate.

No controversy at all.

[nationalize the fed]

8. "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought..."

Ships from and sold by The Unemployed Philosophers Guild.

[DreamGypsy]

9. Hillary should be flattered. Better by the dozen dozen...

...Amazon is selling them at ten cents a piece if you buy a gross (get it?).

When the bozos starting the insulting ridicule, you know you're a real threat.

I plunked down my $14.40 and am having them shipped out as holiday gifts to...

Michele Bachmann
John R. Bolton
Jeb Bush
Herman Cain
Ben Carson
Chris Christie
Ted Cruz
Lindsey Graham
Mike Huckabee
Bobby Jindal,
George Pataki
Rand Paul
Mike Pence
Rick Perry
Rob Portman
Marco Rubio
Paul Ryan
Rick Santorum
Donald Trump
Bob Corker
Mitch Daniels
Bob Ehrlich
Carly Fiorina
John Kasich
Sarah Palin
Scott Walker
Allen West

If you see Christie, Cruz, or Ryan limping out to a podium, you'll know that they tried out their gift and lost.

The list above includes only 27 recipients. so I had the remaining 117 sent to Palin...cause she's got more nuts to crack than the rest of them combined.

[Prophet 451]

10. Saw that before

I remember that one doing the rounds during the 2008 primary fight.

[marlakay]

11. I actually have one of these

my step daughter bought it for us as a joke back in 2007 even though I was Obama supporter. I stuck it in garage. Saw it a month ago and and thought about new election.