Comments on: Why Bratz Dolls Are Evil Incarnate

By: Women's Space/The Margins

Women's Space/The Margins — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:51:10 +0000

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By: gingermiss

gingermiss — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:07:27 +0000

You know, tcupnewt, I thought that at first too, but now I feel like that’s a deceptively negative characteristic of the dolls.

If the dolls only embody negative stereotypes, they’re not improving the representation of women of color by including them. They’re really just saying all girls - white, black, hispanic - are vapid “My Sweet Sixteen” consumer hoarding idiots.

By: tcupnewt

tcupnewt — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:21:38 +0000

On the positive side Bratz are slightly more varied in terms of skin-colour. But that’s the only upside of them that I can see…

By: gingermiss

gingermiss — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:56:25 +0000

Right on target, Chantal!

These disgusting dolls send the message that little girls are really just sexually-charged young women in children’s bodies, ready for action, and have nothing in their brain other than shopping & behaving like a diva, with no aspirations, no dreams.

That's it in a nutshell. Thank you for boiling it down so well.

By: Chantal

Chantal — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:02:24 +0000

The scariest part is that these monstrosities are marketed to under 10-year-olds. I’m glad to say that I stood my ground in refusing to purchase any Bratz-related garbage for my daughter, despite her crying pleas that all her friends have them. When I first saw these things, I had an image of a blow-up doll in my head. These disgusting dolls send the message that little girls are really just sexually-charged young women in children’s bodies, ready for action, and have nothing in their brain other than shopping & behaving like a diva, with no aspirations, no dreams. Vapid little airheads. They have nothing that any child, any teenager, any young woman can relate to.
I love dolls, I played with Barbies til I was….well, old enough not to be playing with them anymore….but at least with Barbie, she had a goodness about her image, she had qualities, you could play & create a world that was similar to yours, and she always seemed to have a job or career, she was doing things. In other words, you could create and imagine anything you wanted with Barbie. With these Bratz porn-star look-a-likes, there is nothing remotely connected to the lives and dreams of young girls, their personnalities are fixed as spoiled brats with attitude who wear impossible outfits and shop while talking on their cell phones.
Well-written post (as usual)…..love your blog.

Chantal :)