Salon.com > easy-bake oven http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 17:25:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Eighth grader takes on the Easy-Bake Oven http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/eighth_grader_takes_on_the_easy_bake_oven/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/eighth_grader_takes_on_the_easy_bake_oven/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:17:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13113548 New Jersey eighth grader McKenna Pope is sick and tired of hearing that baking is girly. She knows that male celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver and Alton Brown are no strangers to perfectly flaky pie crust, and Pope's 4-year-old brother, Gavyn, is no slouch in the kitchen, either. So when he recently asked Santa for an Easy-Bake Oven, McKenna noticed that boys weren't featured anywhere in Hasbro's advertisements for the mini-oven. On top of that, it only came in two colors: purple and pink. Feeling burned by the suggestion that only girls bake, the budding activist decided to do something about it.

McKenna started a petition on Change.org calling on toy manufacturer Hasbro to tone down the gender-typing on the Easy-Bake Oven. The open letter to CEO Brian D. Goldner might feature a pretty adorable video of Gavyn talking about baking (and dinosaurs!), but it's not kidding around. In response to the frilly colorway for the oven, McKenna writes:

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