http://health.msn.com/pregnancykids/kidshealth/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100160211>1=9303
Been saying and studying and fuming over this subject for years....before bratz even came out....but it really really does suck, all of these little tots with these pink and black shredded clothes that do not fit them, trying to play and grow and run with mini heels and mules and slides instead of tennis shoes...the industry makes me sick and the parents, do, too. Im sure it is very uncool to be the "only girl in kindergarten" without hooker gear on, but if NONE of the parents dressed their little ones in this manner, the issue would resolve itself. I thought id pass this one along. The grown ups put their money towards these nasty toys and these nasty clothes and these nasty low quality boring pointless product lines. We all need to STOP supporting the garbage industries that are marketed towards our children NOW.
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3 comments:
Don't even get me STARTED on those pants with words written on the butts (princess, hot pants, etc.) so that all the pedophiles can stare at little kids' butts.
So depressing.
Barbnocity
Looking forward to Sunday :)
- Apparently the objectification of women starts earlier than ever, nowadays.
- No parent in their right mind should buy Bratz stuff, especially for their girls.
- Hilarious turn of a phrase, Joy, "Hooker" clothes - LOL!
- When young girls begin developing their self image and all they look to are ubiquitous media objects like Paris Hilton, panty-less partying Hollywood starlets, Coyote Ugly girls, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, Baby Beauty Pageants, and Pussy-Cat Dolls, do we blame the parents who bought Bratz Dolls or the parents who never introduced their daughters about Marie Curie, the Brontë sisters, or Harriet Tubman?
Although I know it is a hypothetical question, the "blame" is many-fold. But all of us can at the very least , stop buying this garbage, stop sustaining these corporations with our dollars, and the rest would be a vastly personal choice, among families is a great place to start. For those girls who do not have the luxury of "concerned parents", hopefully schools and other organizations could help to quickly stamp out this whole disgusting, backwards trend. I know from my own children that if the very young kids were allowed the time and space to find their own natural likes and dislikes, then only some of them would be drawn to the shallow plastic side of life, image, character...but thats why "gettin 'em while they're really young" is such a dastardly, albeit brilliant marketing ploy. By the time these kids are 7 or 8 if they don't know anything other than Bratz, words on the butt-pants, crop tops, toddlers in heels, it is all they have seen all day in school and then all night on The Flashing Box of Dreams...how many of them would be bold enough to wear jeans and a sweatshirt, to hang out in the forest, to read for pleasure, to self educate evenings and weekends, to be too busy making and learning and doing stuff to be bothered to check themselves in the mirror that day...?
I wonder with the homogenization of things, from what I see in the stores and on tv, if by ten years from now there will even be any "cliques" at all, or just a full classroom of living Bratz dolls with only height differences accounting for any variations whatsoever among the girls.
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