Bratz Is Not Happy That I Said Their Dolls Do Molly
They definitely don’t, OK? They’re dolls!
Sexy Bratz Dolls Get Gentle Make-Unders Courtesy of Tasmanian Artist
The hyper-sexualization of children's toys (especially Bratz Dolls) make many of us very uncomfortable. In fact, when a new Bratz movie came into the video store I worked in once, a custome legitimately asked if it was a new animated porno he could rent. So these make-unders done by a Tasmanian artist who "rescues and…
Revealed: Instagram Accounts for All Your Favorite Dolls
American icon (like it or not) Barbie now has her very own Instagram. So we wondered: What would her fellow dolls' accounts look like? Here's our best guess.
At Least Barbie's Not 'Slutty' Like Those Other Dolls
Time has a blog post defending Barbie against its "bad body image" critics, but it does so in a curious way, by calling Bratz dolls sluttier.
John Waters Makes Creepy Dolls Even Creepier
SANTA MONICA, CA - FEBRUARY 25: Filmmaker John Waters attends the Official Presenter Gift Lounge at the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards at Santa Monica Pier on February 25, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/Getty Images)
Return Of The Bratz
With the apocalypse just around the bend in 2012 and all, it makes sense that Bratz dolls are making a comeback. Only this time, their signature look is "more preppy than sexy." To which Barbie replied, "Boo, you whore." [LATimes]
Michelle Obama: Role Model For Women Across The World • Penis Severed In Rape Revenge
• Michelle Obama is inspiring women the world over. "She shows women that it's OK to have dark skin and to not have a son. She's quite real to us," said Heather Ferreira of Mumbai.
"At Some Point, You Have To Be OK With Your Little Head"
Could Bratz be promoting unhealthy body image among young women? In this clip, The Onion investigates the possible link between unrealistic head size and low self esteem. [The Onion]
Writing at Slate, former Jezebel Moe Tkacik — whose 2003 reporting broke the news to Mattel that their own designers had come up with Bratz and then sold the concept to another company — writes an open letter to Mattel about how to stop sucking. In addition to suggesting a Caribou Barbie with Bratz-y kids, Moe thinks…
Barbie Beats Bratz
On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Mattel is the legal owner of the wildly popular Bratz dolls, which are manufactured by Mattel's main rival, MGA Entertainment. The ruling comes from a previous ruling this year when a jury found that the Bratz creator, Carter Bryant, was working at Mattel under an exclusive…
Doggy Style
If you're worried about your child learning about the harsh realities of the economic situation, get them a "
Tini Puppini," the new doggie divas! Forget man's best friend: "Tini puppinis are the most popular pups in town... They know that whatever they're wearing today, all the other pups will be wearing tomorrow!"…
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L.A. Times' Webscout blog parses on Ashton Kutcher's cartoons-discussing-celebrities blog, . It finds the Blah Girls to be realistically, "radically" portraying young female sexuality. "These three cartoon characters are sexualized in a way we rarely—if ever—see teenage girls depicted. They're not sexed-up in an…
After many complaints from parents and educators, Scholastic has decided to
stop offering the Bratz line of books. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood raged against the Bratz, arguing that by allowing the books to be sold to students through Scholastic's book clubs, schools are tacitly condoning the Bratz…
Kit Kittredge: American Girl Or Capitalist Pawn? Is There A Difference?
It's hard out there for a living, breathing American girl. It's a morass of mixed messages, A.O. Scott points out in a Times think piece about Kit Kittredge, the Abigail Breslin-helmed American Girl doll-based movie coming out this week. "Who are you supposed to be, or to avoid becoming? A nerd? A ditz? A flirt? A…
After This Week, We Never Want To Hear The Words "Manolo" or "Cosmo" Ever Again
- Unless you're living in a closet on Mars, you know that the Sex and the City movie premiered today.
- Slut Machine live blogged it wearing flip flops and eating some skittles. Suck on that, Louboutin wearers.
- The only part of the Sex and the City franchise that we're not sick of is Pat Field and her fabulous, gay,…
Does This Look Like "Intellectual" Property To You?
I'm supposed to be in court in Riverside County, California right now. See, a few years ago I wrote this thing about how the Bratz dolls, the first dolls in the history of slutty-looking dolls to unseat Barbie for slutty looking doll hegemony (and the career ender of numerous highly remunerated Mattel executives),…
Barbie Sales Flatten Worldwide — Are Bratz & Miss Bimbo To Blame?
Several financial news outlets are discussing Mattel's falling first-quarter results, and most place the blame squarely on the slim shoulders of a certain doll named Barbie. Barbie, which was introduced in 1959, is now first-runner-up for the under-12 set, in part because of competition from edgier,…
New Game Encourages Young Girls To Embrace Their Inner "Bimbo"
There's a new game in England and France for girls ages 9 to 16, and it's so raunchy it makes Bratz dolls look positively Pollyanna-ish. Called "Miss Bimbo", the game is essentially an online competition in which each registered player is given a "Bimbo" all her own to take care of — sort of like those Tamagotchi…
Barbies (And Barbies On Booze) Are Big Business
The Barbie 2-in-1 party Plane & Ship, marketed for girls ages 3 to 8, comes with martini glasses, bar stools and a disco scene, notes the Packaging Girlhood blog. The blog makes the argument that unlike the Bratz, who also have a party plane, Barbies are adults; they may drink and go clubbing, but little girls…
Watch Out Christiane Amanpour: Here Comes Naomi Campbell
- So that's what Naomi Campbell was doing in Venezuela: interviewing Hugo Chavez for British GQ. Now they're sending her to talk to Fidel Castro. Is this a fucking joke? And if not, does she realize the whole Latin American socialist alliance thing is like, kinda last season? [Vogue UK]
- Selling real fur as "faux":…
