Little girls should have barbies, not make up. amirite?

The show Toddlers and Tiaras makes me sick

by Anonymous 13 years ago

me too:P ughh I hate the parents on it

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ironic how the thing you're proposing is basically a model TOY to teach them whory-ness, instead of just cosmetics to make them look whory. How about not giving little girls any perfectionist beauty-related things at all, and let them play with like cats or something.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because cats are gross. How about a book?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

//You're// gross.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's mature.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Your mom's mature.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My mom died 2 years ago.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So she's over-mature, then.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you've come to this site for nothing but maturity, you're doing it wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

but books are made on a finite resource. how about a rock?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Rocks are good. They stimulate imagination.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My rock is a spaceship!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

how funny, my spaceship used to be a rock!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

they do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A barbie's just like any other doll. I'm pretty sure kids think they're not pretty enough because other kids tell them that, not because they look at barbie and want to be like her. Dolls aren't bad for kids. Most kids like them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Children are impressionable. Hell, some adults are impressionable. Give some kids a doll whose proportions are incompatible with life and, lo and hehold, some of them will want to make their own bodies incompatible with life. Sure, dolls aren't inherently bad for children, but some children may make conscious decisions on the basis of what their dolls - or indeed, their role models - look like.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How about they can play with dinosaurs or trucks if they want to, and if they want to become promiscuous (when they're older and can have safe, consensual sex) then we let them without using demeaning, sex-negative, gendered slurs.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How about little girls do whatever they want to in moderation? Times will change; that doesn't mean little kids can't follow their trends or whatever. Moderation is key.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

At first I thought that said "babies".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And you were like, "Well.... Yeah."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Me too! And I was like "aww HELL NAW!"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How about sticks instead? You can pretend sticks are all kinds of things, and none of them are beauty-related.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But then they wouldn't be as sexy

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yea cool, little kids are using things teenagers and adults use when they're too young to use them. we've gone over this enough.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dude, I played with my mom's make up all the time when I was little. I had so many of those little lip gloss things they make for kids. Face it, little kids love to pretend to be grown up. Haven't we all played in one of those plastic kitchen sets, or drove in a plastic car? We all had a little fake cellphone and we even played Monopoly, a fake business game. Playing in a fake car doesn't make kids reckless drivers, having a fake cellphone didn't encourage going into the phone-sex business, playing Monopoly doesn't make us sadistic con-men, just like little kids playing with some makeup won't make them grow up to be a prostitute.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If a young girl wears a little bit of her mother's lipstick or blush while playing dress-up or going to an important event, I wouldn't care. But when girls wear eyeliner and all that crap on their eyes at a young age, it makes me sick. They don't understand how that will affect their self esteem and how it can damage their skin in the future. Which is why I despise Toddlers and Tiaras. And it goes deeper than the makeup. They take sexualization to the next level.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ridiculously young girls in all that makeup and crap don't even look real, they look like dolls.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This reminds me of one of my visits to India where I was hanging out with girls my age (10) and a few much older (12-14) and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM owned some sort of doll or tea set. And everyday after school, they would meet and play with the dolls. At the time, I was so surprised and really confused since, back in America, I was used to seeing girls my age trying to flirt with guys and being covered in makeup, jewlery, and nailpolish... Everytime I think about that, it really makes me take a step back and realize that, even though I'm a teenager, I'm still young enough to do what I did before--even if it's pretending to be the Queen at a tea party. I know this doesn't //entirely// relate but, it just rang a bell. 

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This should be true of all girls

by Anonymous 13 years ago