Think we’re up to no 10, not sure.
Anyway, looking for something toylike for Big. I’ve got her something to wear (or at least, I will have when I make it!) and something to watch. But I wanted to get her a toy - she’s a child, children should have toys. Browsing the tesco website, although I really should know better, I came across this: Barbie My Scene Bling Bling Bikini Doll
Now I’m not someone who hates barbie. Oh no, I am, aren’t I? 
But this really takes it that little bit too far. Precisely what are we wanting our young girls to be playing?
If you really want to buy it, it’s over there
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Great! *Rushes off to buy one now* NOT!
Peeping in an adjacent toybox, I see that my own daughter’s doll collection seems to consist of a tangled bunch of naked hand-me-downs with frizzled mess for hair, looking like corpses in one of those horrific secret mass graves they uncover from time to time in Yugoslavia etc.
I’m sure they looked healthy-ish and had clothes once.
Hmmmm what does *that* say about what I want my young girl to be playing? Slightly less than what she wants to be playing herself, probably, but I’ll reserve the right to worry all the same. Not for long though
I asked Big what she thought of it this morning, and she said it’s fine. I said I didn’t like it, and she said she thought it was a summers doll, only for playing with in the summer.
Well, I can see her point! She’d be horribly cold in winter.
Thermal thong?
ROFL I bet you’ve got a link to one!
Nooooooo don’t show us *averts eyes*
I’m wanting my offspring to play with what they want.
The best way of not letting bad ideas spread is to not have toys having more power than they actually have. They are ideas, they can be criticised.
Gi-ill, coo-eee!
Thermal Thong 1
Thermal Thong 2
While I take on board what you are saying Leo, I think there’s a danger in familiarity. Something to do with the subconscious effect of having some images around. I don’t think that I necessarily need to give house room to them iyswim.
It’s slightly academic - Big has barbies and most of the time they live in a box. Her favourite doll is a baby doll given to her two (or more? Can’t remember) years ago, which goes pretty much everywhere with her. I think that’s a lot healthier tbh.
NOT looking Tim *fingers in ears* Lalala!
Oh, go on, you know you really want to.
Jax, I agree it might be bad to have ideas lurking in the subcounscious, uncriticised, people being so familiar of things they think it’s the way it has to be, but I think parents can help children make their subcouncious more concious, and then children can become more aware of the ideas they live by and criticise them like we do.
I didn’t have a Barbie, I had a Mary Quant doll with design clothes, including a pink fur coat. I also had a tons of baby dolls with bottles.
I don’t wear miniskirts or fur, I don’t care much for fashion (one pair of trainers serves me well) I don’t like pink, and I didn’t bottlefeed my offspring. Toys are ideas you experiment with, the more you experiment the best. People change and grow new ideas.
That doll is for playing beach or pool, it is not meant to be nasty, anyone who would think of it as nasty needs thearpy.
thank you for your comment Natasha, I can’t see that anyone has called the doll “nasty” but we’ve all discussed our feelings about it. For the record I don’t dress like that when going to the beach or pool, my children don’t and I can’t think that any of our friends do either.