They brought the product, took it home, scribbled on it like a cereal killer, placed it in their cupboard and took a picture of it..... Just to own those woke liberal companies.....
I highly doubt anyone who'd do that would actually shop at a Trader Joe's. They probably heard about it on Parler and braved exposure to the Woke Mind Virus™ for clout
They didn't cross out trader Joe's, mini, gingerbread, gingerbread, with, icing, either... They didn't even really cross out cookies or fudge, they just underlined men. So no, they didn't "cross out everything but white"
In the reference section of the Library of Memes. An old tome almost calls to you. You pull it down, coughing in the cloud of dust it’s collected. Laying it on a table it opens to a weathered dog eared page almost as if the book’s spine knows. Between incomprehensible matrices of inside jokes long forgotten and dead hyperlinks to Rick Astley are two words that bring a sudden rush of clarity and understanding almost lost to ages.
“Fuck Steve”
“If they’re men then they should prove it. Let’s see what’s between those legs. I want to see a whole lotta swingin’ sausage before I’ll eat a cookie. Mmm yes.”
I don’t get the cultural obsession with this. Why would I want a cookie to be personified as someone and have that symbol be eaten and made to shit? I don’t think calling cookies ginger people is inclusive, and I don’t think calling cookies ginger men is offensive or wrong.
Edit: also a ginger man cookie sounds kinda hot, whether you’re gay or straight. Just sayin
It isn't about personifying the cookie, at least for me. It's tiring that the world is so often "male" by default, and this is an (extremely minor) example of that. I understand that most people are probably less bothered, and that's fine. Cookies aren't really that important, and I'm not the one scribbling on boxes.
What I don't understand is why it's a problem to change the name. Why is it so important that they be gingerbread men? The cookies don't even look gendered. They're just vague human shapes. And if it's so important that we have gingerbread men, why don't we have any other genders?
I agree with you that a gingerbread gender_of_choice sounds hot, but not if the cookies are just boring basic-ass human shapes, and not if there's only one gender actually made. If that's the way we're gonna go, I'll have 3 gingerbread butches, 3 gingerbread enbys with rainbow frosting and glitter, and 3 gingerbread catgirls with blåhajs. And yes, I will be eating them all in one sitting, so throw in a 25 count variety pack of gingerqueers to share.