About time...why so upset

I have been reading some blogs where mom's are expressing their outrage on the banning of the Bratz dolls. I will not miss them however.
My daughter has repeatably asked for these dolls, or movies, and I have to say she owns 2 and that is it. Ask anyone in my family and they know I do not approve of them. The two she has she was given by unaware friends or family and I caved on those two instances since the dolls in question did actually have on a form of unhookerish clothing. You can even ask my daughter and she will tell you "I am not allowed to play with them".
I do not for the life of me understand why these moms are so upset about the fact that these dolls will no longer be sold or made after the holidays. I had some issues with Barbie, but not many however..



I cringe even looking at these dolls, if you haven't seem them they are freakishly "sexy" with almond shape huge eyes, giant head, titanic lips and a tiny waste, they dress like they stand on the corner of 1st and 10th st. The amount of make up on these dolls would make Tammy Fae have to put the blush brush down.

This is why I never let and never will really let my daughter play with or buy them.


1) They have no brain or morals.

They’re called “Bratz”. Need more? Look at their website, watch the cartoon, go see the movie, which I’m sure is a shining example of progressive pro-feminist ideals developed by women for a smart, impressionable female audience.

2) They take the laughably unrealistic beauty standard and blow it out of the water.

I mean, Jesus, just look at them. The nose thing kills me. They hardly have them. Oversized, pouty Angelina Jolie lips. Eyes drowning in eyeliner and eyeshadow. Why is it that girl dolls are never allowed to have noses? Is being able to smell unattractive? Their faces look almost identical, save for the slightly differing skin tones and preferred shades of makeup. I’m not even against makeup in every way, shape, or form. I’m fine with teenage girls playing with makeup, but not when it’s to tear down their first face and create a new one.

3) They’re teaching girls… what?

To plaster industrial strength makeup on their faces much earlier than ever before; to dress as provocatively and mass-market targeted as possible; to adopt the attitudes that very insecure, self-bankrupt older women adopt now rather than later; to achieve a level of thinness thought impossible by human test subjects; to get plastic surgery so that their noses are extra itty bitty and cwute (meaning barely visible); to gloriously and proudly refer to themselves as ‘bratz’, a word that, by my recollection, used to mean you were obnoxious and self-entitled; to love shopping without reason or rhyme; to be cliquey and exclusionary; to predicate their lives on fashion, fun, and flirtatiousness.

It annoys the hell out of me that these dolls have managed to become so popular. Why can’t girls be assertive rather than ‘bratty’? Why can’t they have dolls that reflect something of what their lives are actually like? And, if they actually live lives like those of Bratz dolls, why would we encourage anyone to celebrate or idolize that mentality?


They dress like street hookers!! WHY?? Really??

Bye Bye Bratz....our family WONT miss you.