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Social Media Sort-Of Uproar Over Hasbro's Gender Choice For Dinosaurs
- AV Club, Monday, June 29, 2015 9 AM
Hasbro rebranded all of its Jurassic World toys as males in advertising for its new line of action figures. But in the movie franchise Jurassic Park dinosaurs are bred to be female. So dinosaur expert Dustin Growick, host of the YouTube series The Dinosaur Show, has started a Care2 petition “to tell Hasbro to stop reinforcing silly and antiquated gender role stereotypes on children and stop gender swapping dinosaurs.”
