Yes Merry Lindor, the positive "take away" in my mind from this was that there WERE so many who found the card unacceptable and I'm not sure that would have happened even 5 years ago.
Been speaking with LOTS of colleagues just this week about things related to sexualisation of children/gender stereotyping/sexual bullying/etc., and I think (hope?) something of a critical mass is forming, which has to start with people talking about something, sharing concerns and then working out something to do about it.
Ah, but really interesting how the story became "embellished" as it spread. There's an account in Susan Faludi's Backlash (which is now 22 years old!) of a pre-internet days newspaper article - something like that women over 30 were more likely to get hit by a bus than married (can't remember exactly!), which was then picked up, republished, embellished, spread further and was frequently referred to as "hard evidence" in the late 80's of things like the dangers of feminism and how modern women were all saddos, etc. I'll betcha people remember the story, but not that it was later completely debunked.
This reminded me of that - only instead of unfolding over a year, it all happened over a weekend! Yikes!