American society is soooo deranged sometimes... a manufacturer has come out with a breast feeding baby doll, [edit: it makes nursing noises... it does not actually suck] and the media is going nuts... outlets like CNN are just shy of calling it perverse.
A hilarious quote in the CNN story "Just let girls be girls."
Um... they are. Girls have boobs... for breastfeeding. Our society is so enculturated that boobs are for pleasure we are mocking the concept that they are actually for nurturing a baby.
"Now that under-age sex and pregnancies are reaching shocking proportions, let's have a doll which encourages children to … get pregnant!"
REALLY? This baby doll is encouraging girls to get pregnant? And how do all the other billions of play baby dolls not convey the same message? Where'd that baby doll come from, you little slut!
Personally, I think it's a great doll, and will likely get one for my daughter. I'd rather teach her the message to feed her baby doll the healthy natural way like mommy does with the real baby, than to teach her to rely on expensive less-healthy industrial manufactured bottle milk which requires also mixing, heating, cleaning, and sterilizing. Were it not an extremely profitiable industry pushed by massive advertising, we wouldn't even be having this concern.
What a wierd thing for the media to be getting all bug-a-bood about.
I'm not calling it perversion necessarily, hell it's not that far from other dolls, but I am saying without a doubt that the creators knew exactly what would happen if they sold it and it got popular. And it will have little girls starting to think about pregnancy (not necessarily wanting to get pregnant, but thinking about the act of) at an early age. Whether they would have thought about it as much anyway or not, I don't know.
Perversion is a line that everybody draws a little bit differently and it all requires some weird restraint and weird self-imposed guilt. Like, you can't tell me you haven't ever been attracted to a 17 year old and what exactly is the law, if I'm over 18 I can't have sex with 17 year olds? Or is it 21? Or it's 18 and you can no longer date 16 and under? Nobody even knows and it probably changes by state. It wasn't long ago when 13 year olds married. And then you've got this dipshit 50 whatever year old marrying a supposed 16 year old (going on 29). And then you've got Miley Cyrus a couple of years back she was like 14 or so dating a 21 year old and publicly defending it. Anyway my point is it's a mess and I wouldn't spend time bitching about this stupid doll when there is limitless internet porn that kids will find around the same age and the music on the radio is the worst ever. If you think it's OK for a 4 year old to sing along with songs about being a proud whore fucking everything in sight in LA, I never thought I'd say this, but you need Jesus! Haha. J/K about Jeebs. But morals are dying off and the world is shitting up. It's a tough time to be a parent.
> I'm not calling it perversion necessarily, hell it's not that far from other dolls, > but I am saying without a doubt that the creators knew exactly what would happen if > they sold it and it got popular. And it will have little girls starting to think > about pregnancy (not necessarily wanting to get pregnant, but thinking about the act > of) at an early age. Whether they would have thought about it as much anyway or not, > I don't know. > > As I've always said, I want to have a boy.
Buy him some toy weapons or violent vid games and you're in trouble with your views:
"I'm not calling it perversion necessarily, hell it's not that far from other dolls, but I am saying without a doubt that the creators knew exactly what would happen if they sold it and it got popular. And it will have little kids starting to think about murder (not necessarily wanting to kill others, but thinking about the act of) at an early age. Whether they would have thought about it as much anyway or not, I don't know."
If something goes wrong, I'd rather have some grandchildren than my kid being a killer.
Man that argument is tired and never rang true. We had the violence with movies and video games when we were kids but we aren't running around killing. Yet, as sexual morals have gone down the tube, girls have been getting pregs earlier. So they aren't the same. For starters getting pregnant is a natural desire for I guess near all women and murdering isn't.
Well, I think (either from hearing/reading somewhere that) Mothers that breast feed their babies develop a closer bond to them. But this doll couldn't fill in the 'real' gap of that experience; only simulate it. And I think this doll could encourage that hopefully later in life when they're actually ready (both financially and in maturity) to have a baby.
They make those one types of dolls that have a computer in 'em... The one's for pregnant teen moms, or the one's that are promiscuous (i.e. some Maury Povich guests ). Well, they do have the heavy belly they can strap on and lug that weight around. Or the doll/"Baby" that cries until you feed or change it, it can't be left alone, etc. etc.
Those dolls are made to discourage pregnancy, or to prepare the already knocked up girl for their upcoming hardships. And I'm not saying that there are mothers that weren't ready to have kids (from an unplanned pregnancy) and still don't give all they can in taking care of their babies.
Yeah. I don't see the problem with this doll. If anybody is worried about little girls being influenced in a negative way - well that's the responsibility of the parent/s -first and foremost!
...Like 2 or 3 weeks ago, these 2 little girls come into the hotel where I work, they said they were asking for their mom to see how much a room costs. I told them, then they left. You couldn't help but to notice how they were dressed. If those shorts were any smaller they could've been classified as underwear. I thought to myself (something along the lines of) "Are you sure you're asking for your mom and... (not for some other reason)?" Because they looked like little hookers -that's the plainest, bluntest way it can be said.
Yet... How much media attention does anything like that get? Those "in" styles - they might not encourage pregnancy, but they would promote sex, and where else do babies come from?
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). Well, they do have the heavy belly they can strap on and lug that weight around. Or the doll/"Baby" that cries until you feed or change it, it can't be left alone, etc. etc.
And I'm not saying that there are mothers that weren't ready to have kids (from an unplanned pregnancy) and still don't give all they can in taking care of their babies.