MORE MADNESS: CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR SPEEDY GONZALEZ, PEPE LePEW, VIA THE NY TIMES OF COURSE, AND IN CALIFORNIA, GIRLS & BOY'S CLOTHING/TOY SECTIONS IN DEPT. STORES, BYE BYE, AND CANCEL TIKI BARS TOO

 2009 SERIOUSTOYZ AUCTION

The madness contines:

#1 - Cancel Pepe Le Pew and Speedy Gonzales? The two decades-old "Looney Tunes" characters were in peril recently after a New York Times columnist took issue with them in an op-ed about six nixed Dr. Seuss books.

The essay prompted Latino fans of Speedy to push back on Twitter. 

READ MORE HERE.

Click on the your editor's photo (excuse the glare) of a vintage Speedy Gonzales animal cell featured in a 2009 auction at SeriousToyz.

UPDATED FROM GABRIEL IGLESIAS; CLICK HERE

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#2 - Big stores in California would have to get rid of separate “boys” and “girls” departments for toys and clothes under a new bill.

The proposal would require stores with 500 or more employees to maintain “undivided areas of its sales floor” for childcare items, kids clothes and toys, “regardless of whether an item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys,” according to the legislation....The bill, co-authored by Democrat, Evan Low, who chairs the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, and Cristina Garcia, who chairs the California Legislative Women’s Caucus...Read more at https://nypost.com/2021/03/06/california-bill-would-ban-boys-girls-departments-in-stores/

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#3- TIKI BARS! Oh that shameful past! Painful and underexamined----Can it be repaired?  The New York Times (again) has the answer; click here 

And no, this blog will not be cancelling Tiki/Hawaii Kai/or related posts here, past, present, or future.

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Not concerned yet? Here's more:

• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR THE MUPPETS https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/03/disney-again-and-now-cancel-culture.html
  
• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR...CHEERLEADERS https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/03/and-nowcancel-culture-comes.html
• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR DR. SEUSS  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/03/and-now-cancel-culture-comes-for-dr.html 
• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR SHAKESPEARE https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/03/part-16-at-request-of-our-local-authors.html 
• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR "GREASE" https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/and-nowcancel-culture-comes-for-grease.html 
• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE"  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/12/on-this-date-in-1946its-wonderful-life.html 
• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR MR. POTATO HEAD  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/02/cancel-culture-now-comes-for-mr-potato.html
• CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR HARRY POTTER'S J.K. ROWLING, MONTY PYTHON'S JOHN CLEESE AND MORE https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/12/part-9-at-request-of-our-local-authors.html
  
• CANCEL CULTURE CAME FOR GOYA  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-goya-boycott-led-to-buy-cott.html

AND FROM THE GET WOKE, GO BROKE FILES:

CHARLIE'S ANGELS GOT WOKE AND...click here

BATWOMAN, THE TERMINATOR, GOT WOKE AND...click here.

AND FROM ONE OF OUR FAVES:  'Mr. Bean' actor Rowan Atkinson compares cancel culture to 'medieval mob looking for someone to burn'...said cancel culture was eroding freedom of speech and made him fearful for the future. MORE AT https://www.insider.com/mr-bean-rowan-atkinson-compares-cancel-culture-to-medieval-mob-2021-1

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'I still like Dr. Seuss': House GOP leader McCarthy shares video reading of 'Green Eggs and Ham'---SEE MORE AT https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/6/i-still-like-dr-seuss-house-gop-leader-mccarthy-/