Right-wing journalist Julia Johnson interviewed a mother who recently discovered that Hasbro updated The Game of Life to reflect positive change. And the woman, Lindsay Harold, who has daughters, is absolutely NOT happy about this. Her daughters received it as a Christmas gift and Harold told Johnson the game has “changed profoundly” from when she was a little girl. Enough so, that it’s become unrecognizable to her.

“It is now very much a woke game,” she wrote in a Facebook post.

Johnson, who is the trending news editor for the right-wing publication The Washington Examiner, writes that Hasbro has made notable changes to the beloved board game. And these are changes that Harold apparently doesn’t like. Some of the pegs now come in rainbow colors as opposed to the traditional pink for girls and blue for boys.

“The people come in pink, blue, red, purple, yellow, and green. No more boys and girls. You can be whatever you want,” she wrote.

Hasbro confirms Harold’s claims on its website, adding that players can “pop in colorful pegs and spin to move along the gameboard as life unfolds from Start to Retirement.”

“In the game the pegs come in 6 different colors,” per the website. “Having kids is a choice and disconnected from marriage.”

While Harold and other right-wing women may not like this, it’s really a fortunate thing. People who wish to have children no longer have to chain themselves to someone. Women have learned to become financially independent over time and families have become more diverse.

Harold would, perhaps rather return to the 1960 version of the game (it was originally created all the way back in 1860), when everything was more predictable and the roles for men and women were fixed, with little room for variation. Maybe that’s what prompted her to add “now, you can choose the marriage or non-marriage path.”

“In the woke version, you must choose the path where children are an option or the child-free life,” she noted.

And on its website, Hasbro confirms this change, noting “they can choose whether or not to go college, get married, grow their family, or retired early.”

But Harold brings her sour apples to this party.

“If you want to win this dystopian game of LIFE, it’s best to avoid marriage and children as they cost you and slow you down. You definitely can’t have a lot of kids. That’s not even an option. There’s no reason marriage and children have any connection to another,” she wrote. “I’m not at all happy with the new version of the game. I don’t recommend this one at all. Wokeness ruins everything.”

This begs the question: Who really cares what this woman thinks? If she wants to delude herself that somehow the 1960s were a better time then let her, I guess. But we live in a time when gender expression and sexual identity are more fluid. Women are becoming more independent and families are becoming more diverse. And women like myself, who have no children, are more widely accepted.

Hasbro apparently made this change in 2021 and it was a long time coming. It’s a welcome change that even includes the option of choosing a career in social media influencing. This is giving children the stepping stones they need to thrive in the modern world. Frankly, I wish this had been the case when I was young and playing this game in the 1960s and 70s.

Then the Game of Life would really have prepared me for life.

Conservatives on social media were whining as usual:

Tell me your society is collapsing without saying your society is collapsing

— WeirdoRedBeardo (@WeirdoRedBeardo) January 4, 2023

@Hasbro , knock it off. This is anti-natalist, anti-human and it's the wrong path. I was just going to boycott Transformers: Earthspark for going woke. Now, I'm boycotting all Hasbro toys. My kid has hundreds of Transformers. No more. I'm done. Get woke, go broke.

— SmallTownDude🇺🇸🇹🇼🇭🇰 (@Small_Town_Dude) January 3, 2023