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07 Feb
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Modern Board Games
I covered the Pink Ouija game on my blog over a year ago, but it took until now for some twits to make noise about it.
No, it’s not because a pink game aimed at girls is condescending. It’s because “There’s a spiritual reality to it and Hasbro is treating it as if it’s just a game” says the director of Human Life International. (source)
Other groups annoyed at Pink Ouija include Living His Life Abundantly (source) (” … they think that when a big corporation like Hasbro and Toys R Us makes it appear so innocuous, it makes them wonder ‘how bad can this be?’ So they buy it and introduce it to their children.”) and Life Site News (source). No comment yet from Second Life or F My Life.com .
There is a boycott site.
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The boycott site gave me the shivers. One poster, presumably a concerned parent, claims s/he would rather put their child in a room with a viper than one with a Ouija board. (At least the wounds from the viper could be seen and treated.)
I understand their concern about Ouija boards, of course, but no intelligent person can take that hyperbole seriously… and it really makes me concerned for the children of some of these boycotters!