While it seems like a natural progression (encouraging young girls to dress like whore to providing them a quick means to act like ones) it still sickens me.What's worse? That the store I got this image from is sold out of them? Or that it says on the box "suitable for ages 6 and up"?
ick ick ick...
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i am so glad that someone else is as disgusted as i am with this marketing hell that is the bratz. firstly, i have no idea why any parent would allow her child to play with anything that associated young girls with spoiled rotten misbegottens. secondly, i can't possibly dwell on the effects of a TV program dedicated to this horrid marketing...otherwise, a thirty minute advertisement for cheap crap.
and now, spin-the-bottle?
why can't we allow our children to simply be children, without the over-sexualization of TOYS, for God's sake. Toys.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. A post is brewing within...
that's disgusting.
(and yet another reason why i'm pretty sure i don't want kids... though i've been told if i don't have any "they" will out number us soon enough.")
maybe it's cuz i haven't seen soldier boy in 7 months and i'm feelin a little... um... lonely... but when i first looked at that i thought it was some sort of weird self-pleasuring sexual device.
how surprising to realize that it's not for self-gratification, but to be shared with your horny little friends.
gross. my daughter will not be allowed to have those kinds of toys, or dress like a hoooker, even if it means she's not cool. i always say that anybody who was the cool kid in junior high and high school peaked WAY too early, anyway.
I'd home school my kids if I didn't think they'd end up stupid.
I had a student that had all things bratz last year. I banned her stuff from the classroom.
I don't allow Bratz stuff in my house.
The baby bratz are the worst... infants in string bikini diapers, wearing makeup and drinking out of bottles. How is that not kiddie porn?
Not only is this contraption horrific because they market "spin the bottle" to 6 year old, but it looks like some pre-teen version of a vibrator.
Jadette is not allowed access to the bratz. All of that sexualized baby bratz nonsense is marketed to her age group...4 year olds...and I will have none of it. Since when did Barbies become toys for 3 year olds and 6 year olds start playing "spin the bottle?" Some parents need a kick in the head. A hard one.
j&o, i thought you were just being dramatic... you know, exaggerating for effect... i had really hoped so, anyway. then i googled. i can't friggin believe they market that stuff. this is our brilliant society: sell sex to our toddlers but teach them that "abstinence is the only way" when they're teenagers.
i'm about to go on an ubie-style rant.
I can't believe that anyone is shocked by the blatant hypocrisy of our beautiful consumer market.
It's too bad we can't count on parents to act like fucking parents anymore.
I'd make a terrible motivational speaker. Unless I'm motivating someone to be more depressed.
nick, i'm not actually apalled by the marketing ploy (even though that's what i said). they're in it for the money, an "honest" motive in a free market society. i'm disgusted by the fact that there's enough demand to keep them in business.
thanks for deepening my depression, btw. ;)
Some kids would be better off in orphanages. Anyone who buys this shit for their children, or lets them wear shorts with writing on the ass, should not be allowed to keep them.
Yeah, let Madonna and Angelina adopt them all.
My head hurts.
So does my stomach.
I think I have to go hit something. And then throw up.
I tried to comment here the other day, but Blogger hates me.
I'm so glad I have a boy. But I feel sad for the little girls that are exposed to this stuff. What the hell?
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