Conservatives Are Fuming Over the Gender of a Cookie

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The gender of a pastry is the latest conservative news debacle.

A photo of a cookie labeled "Gingerbread Person" has angered conservatives so much so that they've taken to Twitter to yell about it.

"What is happening to our country?" one complainer wrote with the photo of the single cookie in question from an unnamed private business. "Stop voting for Democrats," typed another conservative who is openly gay. It even made its way to Fox News, where a Tucker Carlson segment pointed out that the inanimate object is "obviously" a man and called the renaming of it a "spiritual neutering," whatever that means.

\u201cA Gingerbread PERSON. What is happening to our country?\u201d
— Warren Rhea \ud83c\udf10 (@Warren Rhea \ud83c\udf10) 1639797579

Those whiny conservatives are getting absolutely roasted online by users pointing out the obvious hypocrisy. Of course, the memes (some slightly NSFW) quickly followed:

\u201chttps://t.co/8QZXNtWUWq\u201d
— Conservative Self-Owns (@Conservative Self-Owns) 1639973147

\u201cNo way grown adults are mad about someone putting gingerbread person instead of gingerbread man\u2620\ufe0f\u201d
— cam\ud83e\uddad (@cam\ud83e\uddad) 1639927772

\u201cImagine getting sad your gingerbread person doesn't have a penis.\u201d
— \ud83d\udc80DeathMetalViking\ud83d\udc80 (@\ud83d\udc80DeathMetalViking\ud83d\udc80) 1639858583

\u201c@RichardGrenell We used to be a country. A proper country\u201d
— Your Pal Billy! (@Your Pal Billy!) 1639790925

\u201cIn MY AMERICA \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf7 this cookie is A MAN with a PENIS. This cookie has a big throbbing AMERICAN COCK. And it is a man so it has an unwashed ass bc it is A MAN. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS CONTRY\u201d
— himbofication of lilchurro (He/Him) (@himbofication of lilchurro (He/Him)) 1639915174

\u201ccalling it a "gingerbread person" specifically to upset conservatives online\u201d
— Mother \ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd82 (@Mother \ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd82) 1639786017

\u201cdo you need a safe space from the scary gingerbread person\u201d
— jaren (@jaren) 1639853650

Social media activist @mattxiv summed it up the best in his Instagram slideshow covering the drama. If gender is associated with "anatomy and chromosomes", how can a cookie also be definitively a man?

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