Women of the world!

Do not just sit there. Call your lawmakers. Start protests. Have sit-ins. Push for ballot measures. Riot in the streets. Picket, scream, shout...make sure that your voices are heard. For the time.. is now. It is time...
It is time...for female characters on cereal boxes.
For too long, only men have been represented on the covers of these colorful breakfast food boxes. Children see these faces nearly immediately after waking up and it shapes their beliefs and understanding of the world around them. However, almost none of the faces they see have double X chromosomes.
This needs to end....NOW.
Names of various examples from the male dominated industry:
The Rooster from "Corn Flakes"
Cookie Crook, Officer Crumb from “Cookie Crisp
Cap’n Crunch from “Cap n’ Crunch”
Trix Rabbit from "Trix" Cereal
Snap, Crackle, and Pop from “Rice Crispies” (while it is nice that these three do not follow macho stereotypes, they still do not count as females)
Chef from “Cinnamon Toast Crunch”
Count from “Count Chocula”
Buzz from “Honey Nut Cheerios”
Lucky the Leprechaun from “Lucky Charms”
Sonny from “Cocoa Puffs”
Toucan Sam and his three Nephews from “Froot Loops”
Tony the Tiger from “Frosted Flakes”
Barney and Fred from “Pebbles”
Do not just sit there. Call your lawmakers. Start protests. Have sit-ins. Push for ballot measures. Riot in the streets. Picket, scream, shout...make sure that your voices are heard. For the time.. is now. It is time...
It is time...for female characters on cereal boxes.
For too long, only men have been represented on the covers of these colorful breakfast food boxes. Children see these faces nearly immediately after waking up and it shapes their beliefs and understanding of the world around them. However, almost none of the faces they see have double X chromosomes.
This needs to end....NOW.
Names of various examples from the male dominated industry:
Cookie Crook, Officer Crumb from “Cookie Crisp
Cap’n Crunch from “Cap n’ Crunch”
Trix Rabbit from "Trix" Cereal
Snap, Crackle, and Pop from “Rice Crispies” (while it is nice that these three do not follow macho stereotypes, they still do not count as females)
Chef from “Cinnamon Toast Crunch”
Count from “Count Chocula”
Buzz from “Honey Nut Cheerios”
Lucky the Leprechaun from “Lucky Charms”
Sonny from “Cocoa Puffs”
Toucan Sam and his three Nephews from “Froot Loops”
Tony the Tiger from “Frosted Flakes”
Barney and Fred from “Pebbles”
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