Boy Has Baking Blues, Pleas For Gender-Neutral Easy-Bake Oven

For Christmas, four-year-old Gavyn Boscio of Garfield, N.J., wants a miniature dinosaur and an Easy Bake Oven.

But despite his professed love of cooking, Gavyn says that "only girls" play with the classic toy. In response, His big sister McKenna Pope, 13, is leading an online campaign to get Hasbro to phase out gender-specific pink and purple Easy-Bake Ovens and to feature boys in the toy oven's commercials and packaging, which have traditionally been geared towards girls.

The Change.org petition, addressed to Hasbro's CEO Brian D. Goldner, has 40,874 signatures to date.

After seeing McKenna's YouTube video about her little brother who loves cooking, Top chefs including Micha…
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