Comments on: If Bratz dolls were real, Bill Maher would be dating 5 of them.

By: Barbie Kills Fans | The Glaring Facts

Barbie Kills Fans | The Glaring Facts — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:18:16 +0000

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By: angraphant

angraphant — Sun, 09 May 2010 07:25:13 +0000

holy shit. that was fantastic. i can’t bear to read through any more comments (i think i stopped somewhere in 2008) but i have to say that this is an incredibly well analyzed and written piece.

By: Grafton

Grafton — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:27:15 +0000

Legos are cool.

For my niece, I look for the Breyer horse playsets — the 1:12 scale ones (“Classic”) are cheaper and a bit more durable than the 1:9 scale (“Traditional”). There are a few little human dolls, articulated so that they can ride the horses, they have changeable clothes just as the horses have little removable saddles and bridles and stuff, but they’re not sexy costumes, they’re English riding/Western riding/cleaning the barn/being the vet costumes.

By: GXB

GXB — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:46:17 +0000

How about Legos? They're not violent, they include people, but the focus is obviously on what the people are doing rather than what they are wearing. (You can choose a torso, legs, head and a hairstyle, but that's about it, or was.) Since the people are so small and the possibilities for scenario-building are so big, you can also enact a much more interesting range of stories with them. I loved Legos as a kid, and I'd still play with them if they happened to be accessible. Call me naive, but I would also expect the possible creative scenarios would make Legos and Tinkertoys and things easily marketable to all children! I saw a TV ad for girls' dolls recently that was so materialistic and clothes-oriented, it made me feel slightly sick. Maybe it was for these? By the way, I read somewhere that a real-life Barbie would have to walk on all fours (found a reference), and that her feet are one of the problems (scroll down to a list here). Not that I am sure how to calculate this. So the new message of Bratz: remember girls, if you're going to have breast implants make sure your feet are big enough first!

By: ds

ds — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:36:16 +0000

Bratz dolls are real – they are The Pussycat Dolls.

By: Imaginary

Imaginary — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:43:22 +0000

Parents should be worried about this.

But some of them don’t care.

Does this mean that the child should be taken in by the only alternative out there? The one that makes them feel like nothing more than a fleshy casing around a comfortable hole?

I really don’t want other girls growing up hating themselves like I did/do.

By: Imaginary

Imaginary — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:20:25 +0000

Thank you for saying that! I didn’t know how to verbalize what was in my head (can I ever?), but that made it clearer. I remember that I used to want to play sports so desperately with the boys and they would just laugh at me and tell me I was worthless and that all girls should just stick to playing with dolls and not speaking. I truly hate them. I’m an agressive persun, I need to be agressive. Be- be AGRESSIVE!

By: Imaginary

Imaginary — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:11:58 +0000

I can’t express how creepy this is for me. When I was a youngen (you know, to my now wise, aged 16 years), I would play with my dolls and stuffed animals in ways that would put most mainstream porn people to shame. I don’t know where I learned this shit; that womin only feel power when they are in brothels being raped and raping other womin. I don’t even remember the Sex talk. I’m just disgusted by this fact that I used to do those things without thinking. I don’t want any other girl, regardless of age, to think this way ever.

By: winter_lights

winter_lights — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:54:50 +0000

I’ve run into an interesting (though possibly not new-new) development related to this line where I work.

Now there are Bratz Halloween costumes. Or at least one, by the name of “Bratty Goldilocks”. (Which is an odd name on it’s own.)

At first I thought “Well, it’s not really any more stripperfic than the other costumes here.” But then I realized that no, it’s actually a lot more stripperific than the others in that age group. Which, according to the label, is ages 3-4.

… Words fail me.

By: Britt

Britt — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:58:17 +0000

ha, i was the same way. granted, i typically wanted to play with the brown-haired barbie, because she was “just like me”, but other than that, most of the enjoyment i got out of barbies, was the elaborate stories of their lives.

but hell, i did that with stuffed animals too.

i don’t believe that a toy alone is the reason why young girls are so screwed up. it’s way more than that.