“To be clear, it’s a great idea for stores to create toy sections where boys don’t feel odd for choosing a baby doll and girls feel welcome to take home a toy truck,” writes the L.A. Times editorial board for latimesopinion.
State lawmakers have plenty of necessary and appropriate tasks ahead of them, such as preparing for a hotter, drier future, devoting adequate resources to fight and prevent devastating wildfires and supporting school districts as they help students overcome learning loss from the pandemic months.Nevertheless, a bill awaiting Gov.
Still, the movement is mostly away from rigidly gendered toys to a more universal approach. Toymaker Hasbro, which earlier this year removed the “Mr.” from the brand name of its Potato Head line, is a pioneer in the movement. Neither families nor toymakers nor stores need the state’s intervention to make this happen; demand is already beginning to rearrange the landscape.
As small as the reach of this bill would be, the concept it represents is of major concern: another inch in the Legislature’s mission creep from public policymaker to private overseer. We saw it with the 2018 California law — now being challenged in court — that requires corporations toon their board of directors. In 2020, the Legislature compounded the overreach by requiring corporate boards to add people of color too. Again, the goal is noble.
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