Originally Posted By melekalikimaka <a href="http://www.webotop.net/images" target="_blank">http://www.webotop.net/images</a>%20helen1/bratz%20nite%20out/collecjadeniteout.jpg <a href="http://tinyurl.com/26jw49" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/26jw49</a>
Originally Posted By onlyme >>So is it true? Girls today go to school in fishnet stockings and boas? Why, back in my day...!<< Being an elementary school teacher, I can say.......yes, they do. I can't tell you how many girls come dressed in micro-mini skirts, skin-tight pants/tops, low-cut tops, etc...And seriously, I'm including 2nd graders in this, as well. Last week, a little, tiny 3rd or 4th-grader came to school in, yes, you guessed it, fish-net stockings with a very short dress. It's just too early for this stuff. But watching some of the parents pick them up after school, the reasons are obvious...like mother, like daughter. And I'm not at all, surprised by the popularity of those dolls. It's how their 'heros' dress, so why shouldn't they. The parents obviously aren't concerned. I guess it was a good thing that my wife didn't have kids, I'd be waaaay too strict.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Next time you are at a Target or somewhere where they sell kids' toys, go take a look at the display.>> So I'm assuming the real variety of dolls is somewhat more skanky than those I saw at the original link?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<<a href="http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/12" target="_blank">http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/12</a> 59/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/-/Bratz---Girlz-Night-Poster-C10120024.jpeg>> Yes, the poster is rather skanky. Do they have dolls dressed in the same outfits? My only reason for debating some of this is that I think people are too quick to grab on to dolls or video games or whatever as the source of all things evil in our society when in reality it is the stuff we all see day in and day out on TV, at the movies, advertisements, etc. that are much more prevalent than toys are. Against the backdrop of all that, do you really think toys make that much a difference?
Originally Posted By ecdc >>My only reason for debating some of this is that I think people are too quick to grab on to dolls or video games or whatever as the source of all things evil in our society when in reality it is the stuff we all see day in and day out on TV, at the movies, advertisements, etc. that are much more prevalent than toys are.<< First of all, my skank-meter overheating? LOL! I wish I had a skank-meter that would go off when a skank was nearby. My wife probably wouldn't be that thrilled with it though... But I really do hear where you're coming from. Like I said, I'm usually the last one to be bothered by stuff like this. One of my major pet peeves is the hand wringing we do about how the world is going to hell and people point to the media as evidence of that. There's plenty more wrong with the world than the media. I grew up in that environment - my mom proudly wrote letter after letter of protest when NYPD Blue first debuted. What a waste of time and energy... But for some reason, the Bratz dolls have always rubbed me the wrong way (absolutely, positively, NO pun intended). Maybe it's because they're so deliberate, whereas so much of what people complain about is them reading WAAAAAAAY too much into things (I'm looking in your direction, "Harry Potter is Evil" crowd).
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <(I'm looking in your direction, "Harry Potter is Evil" crowd)> LOL! And sounds like the Bratz dolls were "bringin' sexy back" long before Justin T.!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<I think kids have a pretty small window of opportunity to be young and innocent before they're plunged into the world of sexuality. Or am I just a fuddy duddy?>>> No I think you have a valid point there. However, the Bratz...well I'm not real big on PhD "doctors" if you know what I mean.
Originally Posted By DlandJB It's not just that they are skanky looking, but if you've ever seen the show it is about as vapid as a cartoon can be. These are not the role models I'd have wanted for my daughter when she was little.
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess My daughter has a couple of 'em, but I've been very careful which ones she was allowed to pick out. She's gotten ones that are in soccer outfits, pj's & robes, that sort of thing. They actually have some, dressed like prositutes of course, with BELLY BUTTON RINGS. Whenever my daughter sees the ones dressed like that, she says, "Ooh, yuck, that's trashy!" Apparently she has overheard me a time or two. LOL
Originally Posted By tiggertoo <<But for some reason, the Bratz dolls have always rubbed me the wrong way>> Tell be about it. "Bratz" dolls? More like "Slutz" dolls to me. What's next? Anatomically Correct Ken and Barbie? Lindsey Lohan doll complete with liquor bottle? This is why I haven't had children yet. Whatever happened to the Care Bears and My Little Pony?
Originally Posted By imadisneygal They're still there. And they're huge! Among the girls who don't have the Bratz prom limo that is...
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<it is about as vapid as a cartoon can be.>>> <-----Runs off to get dictionary.
Originally Posted By jdub DICTIONARIES ARE COOL! THAT is what the world needs--a "Dictionary Dina" doll. (Actually, do a search for "Librarian action figure"--there IS one!)
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<This is why I haven't had children yet.>> Ah, go ahead and have yourself a couple of rug-rats. You really don't need to worry about slutty dolls when your kids can find any kind of porn there is online. I don’t like where society is at today. While watching TV I routinely turn to my wife and say†I’m sure glad I’m as old as I am because I couldn’t take this crap for another 50 years!!†But hey… welcome to the 21st Century!!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I think the Bratz Dolls are hot! I'm collecting them all. LOL That WOULD be creepy wouldn't it? My DD has a couple but they have been tossed aside to make way for what is becomming a massive collection of Littlest Pet Shop Animals and STUFF.
Originally Posted By HyperTyper >>> But then maybe the parents are just weak, and break down when their little girl whines until they get one. Yes, they are. I teach sixth grade. I cannot believe the things parents are allowing kids to do, play with, watch, and listen to. And it's much bigger than the Bratz dolls. How many kids have seen the Austin Powers movies? There are AP toys marketed to kids. What kind of movies are those for children? Completely inappropriate. And popular. Wildly popular, at least in their day. Sad. Sad and stupid.
Originally Posted By pecos bill Sadly, I do get a bad feeling about the state of our morality, we seem so accepting of things that once were considered repulsive. Perhaps that is just the elders lamenting the reckless and immoral younger generation, as has been the case for most generations, but things just feel different now. Cynicism seems to have overtaken optimism.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Cynicism seems to have overtaken optimism.<< I hear that. We have a generation of kids who have been raised on cynicism and irony. The idea of innocence has been completely ridiculed and mocked. Bratz are just one more step in the process that has robbed these kids of a childhood filled with the sense that anything can happen.
Originally Posted By pecos bill The very word brat, means an objectionable, offensive child. What a pathetic thing to aspire to. The people marketing this trash should be ashamed of themselves, instead, they are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams, completely unwilling to admit their role in the ongoing erosion of morality.
