F.A.O. Schwarz is a famous toy store in New York City — the epitome of a toy store straight out of a Christmas movie. For grown ups and kids alike, F.A.O. Schwarz has become a must see tourist destination. Despite numerous visits to this store, the amount and quality of toys always amaze me. Inside F.A.O. Schwarz one can find candy shops, a make your own ceramic shop, a Muppet Puppet building workshop, and design your own Barbie computers.
F.A.O. is definitely not a place my family could have afforded to shop when I was a kid.
As I visited the different “departments” I came upon a nauseatingly familiar sight — Evolution from How Should We Define Evolution?
It took me a minute to:
a. Realize this was the same Evolution
and
b. Attempt to understand why they have a small scale shop inside the toy store.
This seems to be a “science-y” section where kids can buy insects, model dinosaurs, stuffed toads for $49, and real alligator heads for $29 or $39.
‘Cause you know nothing says play with me like stuffed toads for sale at a toy store.
Oh no! Not the poor stuffed toads again
I know! I don’t understand how/why this story, Evolution is so popular!
THorrible to see that people like these things. Like having stuffed non-humans in your home.
yup. or like having a stuffed cat or dog at home. I dont understand why people place certain animals in completely different categories.
today i was watching a cooking show and one actress was promoting her organization to save cats and dogs. at the same time she was cooking and eating “sausage”. such hypocrisy.
Yes so true. Have you listened to Gary Francione podcasts ? Or visited his website http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/ ? He has a great grasp of explaining things like this.. He has a name for this, he calls it moral schizophrenia. The notion that people put these in two mutually exclusive categories and are happy to do so without thinking about what they are saying…