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Ok, so I was looking through trademe today, and I found this:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Dolls/Other/auction-27381769.htm
What the fuck? I didn't realise punk had been comercialised to the point so now 12 year old girls can buy some watered-down messed up version of a punk chick whose proportions are modelled on teenage nerds wet dreams. Grrr. I hate the Bratz dolls anyway (never mind the god-awful spelling), call me a femi-nazi but to me they seem to be trying to undo all the work of feminists over the last few decades by teaching little girls that to be attractive and cool you have to have an impossibly small waist, big boobs and a freakishly large head housing massive doe eyes and pouty lips. Its like the creators went out and purposefully tried to create to most impossible body shape to aspire to EVER. And of course you have to wear the latest fashions, even if they are hideously expensive and look like shit on you. What happened to being happy with who you are and that big uprising against Barbie?
I would like to think that little girls are smart enough to know that women don't look like the dolls they play with, but I'm a cynic and at that age all I wanted was the Barbie horsefloat and jeep combination.
No wonder there are so many anorexics. God I hate anorexics. I know it's a mental disease and I went through it myself. It's more like I hate the teeny bopper girls who are size 8 and keep bitching about how fat they are, but only when there are people listening. And even if they are "overweight" (oh my god! a size 14! thats, like, the AVERAGE SIZE GODDAMIT) they won't do anything about it. They just bitch. Grrrr
I'm too ill to be ranting, stupid snotty nose
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Dolls/Other/auction-27381769.htm
What the fuck? I didn't realise punk had been comercialised to the point so now 12 year old girls can buy some watered-down messed up version of a punk chick whose proportions are modelled on teenage nerds wet dreams. Grrr. I hate the Bratz dolls anyway (never mind the god-awful spelling), call me a femi-nazi but to me they seem to be trying to undo all the work of feminists over the last few decades by teaching little girls that to be attractive and cool you have to have an impossibly small waist, big boobs and a freakishly large head housing massive doe eyes and pouty lips. Its like the creators went out and purposefully tried to create to most impossible body shape to aspire to EVER. And of course you have to wear the latest fashions, even if they are hideously expensive and look like shit on you. What happened to being happy with who you are and that big uprising against Barbie?
I would like to think that little girls are smart enough to know that women don't look like the dolls they play with, but I'm a cynic and at that age all I wanted was the Barbie horsefloat and jeep combination.
No wonder there are so many anorexics. God I hate anorexics. I know it's a mental disease and I went through it myself. It's more like I hate the teeny bopper girls who are size 8 and keep bitching about how fat they are, but only when there are people listening. And even if they are "overweight" (oh my god! a size 14! thats, like, the AVERAGE SIZE GODDAMIT) they won't do anything about it. They just bitch. Grrrr
I'm too ill to be ranting, stupid snotty nose