Monday, January 12, 2009

Thinking of the children

While we aren't parents ourselves, we can see how it would be hard for people raising children in today's world. From the economic turmoil to pointing out that the first-born was conceived at home due to gas prices being too high for Mommy and Daddy to get a nice hotel room for their anniversary all the way to the question of just how much television is too much, it's a rough world. So it's a good thing that there are parents out there who are helping to pave the road for everyone else.

Take, for example, a mother from Florida, who is upset about a belt worn by a doll she bought for her daughter. The mother believes that the belt, which reads "Enter", crosses the line, and is too sexually explicit for a Bratz doll.

Wait, what? There's something too explicit for a Bratz doll? Maybe we're wrong, but aren't these the dolls that are basically dressed like what Barbie would wear if she was trying to skank it up a bit for a night on the town? Aren't Bratz to the doll world what the Pussycat Dolls are to the music world; overly made-up tarts who are shameless knock-offs of more successful figures?

Well, thank goodness that there's a mother out there who just won't tolerate this kind of filth. Sure, she could decide to stop buying Bratz dolls entirely, given that the dolls stray towards "stripperish", but instead, she's offended about the word "Enter". And yes, we do feel that the word itself, especially in that location, does cross lines that should remain uncrossed, but we also don't think that's anywhere near to the worst thing about the Bratz line.

After all, we'd hate for our own future children to believe that you can pluralize things by adding a "z" to the end of a word.

1 comment:

Lily said...

good one!!
"Aren't Bratz to the doll world what the Pussycat Dolls are to the music world; overly made-up tarts who are shameless knock-offs of more successful figures?"

...that is awesome. I'm still rolling. :-)