Important follow-up ? to Bratz doll thread!

[Tinkerbelle739]

If someone walked around looking like a Bratz doll I would think they were a ho, slut, etc. .

I did not even know we could say those words on the DIS!!

 

[jekajekalynn]

My main problem with Bratz is the cartoon. My DD saw it once and she won't again in our home.

They have a Bratz cartoon???!

 

[TDC Nala]

They might wear all that makeup and the hoochie clothes to disguise the fact that they don't have noses.

 

[jekajekalynn]

I have no problem with dolls promoting confidence, but I'd also like dolls to promote self respect too. Bratz, in my opinion, send the message that to have confidence you need to sexualize your appearance. There's a difference between dressing to put forward your best appearance, and dressing to display your wares to best advantage.

Maybe I'm just too idealistic When I go out to nightclubs, I fully expect to see people dressed provocatively - we're not there to debate the merits of latin grammar But teaching girls that confidence is dressing revealingly 24/7 as soon as they can wrangle their parents into buying the necessary 'cool' clothes? I haven't seen the cartoon so I can't comment on that.

I do love fashion, perhaps I'm just biased because my tastes are more conservative. As a child of the 80s, I loved my doll from the Jem cartoon series - I suppose those outfits weren't exactly conservative with their short skirts and heavy makeup, so maybe I'm giving too much credit to the influence plastic toys can have on children!

Thank you!! I think this summed it up perfectly. There is NOTHING wrong with being fashionable.. But jeeze... Let's face it, who wants their 7 year old dressing like she is going 'clubbing'?

They are VERY over sexualized (and if you think differently..then I dare you to look at the line of dolls they made not to long ago about Las Vegas) and give girls the wrong impression about using provocativness (and uhh... WHY do 8 year old girls need to be provocative anyway??!)

Say what you want about Barbie (but please be nice since I'm a paying member of the BFC ) , but at least she was made to show girls they could be anything from a doctor to a teacher. What do Bratz dolls teach young impressionable girls? How to be a more efficiant hooker?

 

[ntburns22]

They have a Bratz cartoon???!

On the WB, after the talk of nose jobs (which my dd will need in the future) and calling another girl a moron we turned it off.

 

[Zurealsoon]

Thank you!! But jeeze... Let's face it, who wants their 7 year old dressing like she is going 'clubbing'?

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There is nothing sadder than an 8 year old showing her belly with a one shoulder shirt.

 

[transparant]

Thank you!! I think this summed it up perfectly. There is NOTHING wrong with being fashionable.. But jeeze... Let's face it, who wants their 7 year old dressing like she is going 'clubbing'?

They are VERY over sexualized (and if you think differently..then I dare you to look at the line of dolls they made not to long ago about Las Vegas) and give girls the wrong impression about using provocativness (and uhh... WHY do 8 year old girls need to be provocative anyway??!)

Say what you want about Barbie (but please be nice since I'm a paying member of the BFC ) , but at least she was made to show girls they could be anything from a doctor to a teacher. What do Bratz dolls teach young impressionable girls? How to be a more efficiant hooker?

I agree with you 100%!!