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So Hallmark was selling boy and girl 'Kiss-kiss bears' with magnets in their mouths, polarized such that only opposite-sex kissing was possible -- same-sex bears would repel each other. Heterosexist on the face of it, sure, but I would've taken it as just thoughtlessness.

Until I saw these stories about Hallmark employees actively antagonizing people for even trying to buy same-sex bear couples, from an Advocate article:

"You can't have that second bear."
"Excuse me?"
"You have to pick a girl bear for your second bear."
"Why? I bought two boy Kiss Kiss bears here last December."
"Well, you were really wrong to do that."

or this article about a gay couple who actually found a gay bear couple:

He knew that the bears are designed
to "kiss" one another when bears of the opposite sex are put together, but,
to his surprise, two male bears actually "kissed" when he brought them together. Kuhr says that he decided to purchase the bears after checking the price tags to be sure that they were priced for individual sale. "The bears were clearly marked $3.99 each, so I took a $20 bill out of my pocket and proceeded to buy the bears," said Kuhr. "But I was shocked when the clerk refused to make the sale."

According to Kuhr, the clerk said that the bears are only sold in kissing pairs, so he then showed the clerk that the two bears did indeed kiss. At that point, says Kuhr, one of the cashiers became belligerent.

"She wanted the issue over and me out of the store," said Kuhr. "Her opinion was, ‘This is the way it is, I don't want to discuss it, and I want you to leave.'" Kuhr continued to ask why he could not buy the bears and requested to see a manager. Although the clerk refused to summon a manager,
she eventually called mall security who escorted Kuhr and his partner from the
store and then from the mall.

Gits.