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Marc2b -> RE: Fox News contributor insists he's 'not a pedophile' (7/22/2011 6:58:02 AM)
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For little girls their dolls are really important... an example, Barbie used to have a body type that if you blew her up to life size she would be impossible to be like. Her waist would be like 19 inches, and she would be like 5 foot 10 with a 19 inch waist. Her breasts would be over a DD... her legs would be a few inches longer than what is found in nature. In other words, the "ideal" was impossible to achieve. In recent years they changed this and Barbie has a body type that can be found in nature... and yes, that is a social/cultural statement.
My G.I. Joe dolls (oops… I mean action figures… now there’s a cultural statement for you) didn’t have any genitalia yet I never felt weird because I did posses some dangly bits. Now, I am certainly not going to argue that toys don’t have an influence upon children but I do think people tend to oversell the notion. All too often it is not the children who have a problem – they’re just children playing – but the adults around them projecting their own notions of culture and society (and all too often their own neuroses) upon them. My grand niece, as I’ve mentioned, has a much beloved teddy bear… I doubt she’ll grow up thinking she’s inadequate because she isn’t hairy all over and a lack of breast feeding dolls hasn’t prevented women from breast feeding. If people want to get the child a breast feeding doll, I’m fine with that. If they don’t, I’m fine with that too.
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