WTF is the world comming to?
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WTF is the world comming to?
I found this on CNN.com this morning. Of all the things in the world to bitch and complain about, these people are crying b/c IKEA does not show a FEMALE putting together a F'ING couch. Geez, I say we just nuke em!
Gender bias in IKEA instructions?
Norway's prime minister says company should alter brochures that show only men assembling furniture.
OSLO, Norway (Reuters) - Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA is guilty of sex discrimination by showing only men putting together furniture in its instruction manuals, Norway's prime minister says.
IKEA, which has more than 200 stores in 32 nations, fears it might offend Muslims by depicting women assembling everything from cupboards to beds. Its manuals show only men or cartoon figures whose sex is unclear.
"This isn't good enough," Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik was quoted Thursday as telling the daily Verdens Gang. "It's important to promote attitudes for sexual equality, not least in Muslim nations."
"They should change this," he said. "There's no justification for it."
IKEA stores are visited by 365 million people a year around the world. Many products have to be assembled by the buyer -- the "flat pack" concept saves the company huge amounts in transport, storage and sales space.
Bondevik added: "I myself have great problems with screwing together such furniture."
Verdens Gang quoted an IKEA spokeswoman as saying: "We have to take account of cultural factors. In Muslim countries it's problematic to use women in instruction manuals."
IKEA was not immediately available for comment.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/10/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes
Gender bias in IKEA instructions?
Norway's prime minister says company should alter brochures that show only men assembling furniture.
OSLO, Norway (Reuters) - Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA is guilty of sex discrimination by showing only men putting together furniture in its instruction manuals, Norway's prime minister says.
IKEA, which has more than 200 stores in 32 nations, fears it might offend Muslims by depicting women assembling everything from cupboards to beds. Its manuals show only men or cartoon figures whose sex is unclear.
"This isn't good enough," Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik was quoted Thursday as telling the daily Verdens Gang. "It's important to promote attitudes for sexual equality, not least in Muslim nations."
"They should change this," he said. "There's no justification for it."
IKEA stores are visited by 365 million people a year around the world. Many products have to be assembled by the buyer -- the "flat pack" concept saves the company huge amounts in transport, storage and sales space.
Bondevik added: "I myself have great problems with screwing together such furniture."
Verdens Gang quoted an IKEA spokeswoman as saying: "We have to take account of cultural factors. In Muslim countries it's problematic to use women in instruction manuals."
IKEA was not immediately available for comment.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/10/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes
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Originally Posted by rgeer3
I found this on CNN.com this morning. Of all the things in the world to bitch and complain about, these people are crying b/c IKEA does not show a FEMALE putting together a F'ING couch. Geez, I say we just nuke em!
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Originally Posted by Sickboy
They should just use monkeys in the illustrations.
Then everyone will be offended when they can't put the crap together right.
Then everyone will be offended when they can't put the crap together right.
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Originally Posted by Sickboy
They should just use monkeys in the illustrations.
Then everyone will be offended when they can't put the crap together right.
Then everyone will be offended when they can't put the crap together right.
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Originally Posted by 2k2civ34
Also when we nuke them, we should also include Canada in that too...What have the Canadians ever done?
A Canadian is about to bann your stupid a$$...how's that?
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Originally Posted by Pharoh
A Canadian is about to bann your stupid a$$...how's that?
~ O'yea, "Ban" is spelt with one "N" not two, Thx ~
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Rep Power: 377 Then you might want to think before you type....we have members from all over the world that come through here...maybe you should put the ever popular "j/k" somewhere in there so there is no mistake about it...
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