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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:40 PM
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You have GOT to see this. What is this world COMING to???
Edited on Mon May-02-05 08:40 PM by SmileyBoy
Preteen pop culture has reached an all-time low. I was recently sparking up a joint (:smoke:) and watching SpongeBob (which is on Nickelodeon), when I saw a commercial for this:

Now, you think those "Bratz" toys that teach girls to dress like hos are bad?? Presenting BRATZ BABYZ.











Here's the skanky-ass snank clothes these baby dolls are supposed to wear:



Now we're getting into the idea of dressing toddlers up like little skanks and hos?? This is awful.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:41 PM
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1. That first pic...is that a bottle?
:o
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:41 PM
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4. Looks like it.
:puke:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-05 07:15 AM
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42. Oh, man. Could I BE more disturbed?
I'll second that puke.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:41 PM
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2. The Man is at the Window
who should he throw rocks at? you, or the creators of this doll
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:43 PM
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8. Huh?
I don't understand your point.

Redstone
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:44 PM
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10. Me neither.
I was gonna post a reply asking what the point of that was...
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 11:42 PM
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40. The Man is at the window. The man is at the window.
I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-05 07:07 AM
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41. Okey dokey, then. Fine Spring weather
we've been having, isn't it?

Redstone
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-05 06:50 AM
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45. No, I mean it, you've got a nice place.
It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:41 PM
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3. *shudder*
:wtf:
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:42 PM
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5. Dammit!
Edited on Mon May-02-05 08:44 PM by Bouncy Ball
Now why didn't I think of keeping my baby's bottle around her neck with a CHAIN?

That's fucking brilliant! /sarcasm off

And little boys' style undies on baby girls? Pretty twisted.

:crazy:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:42 PM
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6. That's really, truly revolting.
It's not just you.

Redstone
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:42 PM
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7. What the hell is that? Baby Street Walker?
ewwww!
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:43 PM
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9. Hoochey mamma training kit.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:51 PM
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20. Exactly.
There are many, many days when I am incredibly relieved to have sons and not daughters.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:58 PM
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26. I was just thinking the same thing.
It's bad enough with boy's toys promoting violence. I wouldn't want to face this. Ugh.
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:44 PM
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11. Are those fishnets?
Edited on Mon May-02-05 08:49 PM by Teaser
For babies? EEEWWWWWW.....

What kind of sick corporate fuck dreams this shit up?
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:45 PM
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13. I'm wondering the exact same thing.
There must be a pedophile on that company's board of directors, or something...
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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:45 PM
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12. No wonder Sponge Bob is gay.
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DawgHouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:45 PM
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14. That is just wrong!!
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:46 PM
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15. My daughter has a few Bratz dolls
but they don't come with giant safety pins, none of them have chains around their neck, and they don't own fishnet anything.

Odd that the Bratz Babyz are worse than the Bratz.

And btw, my daughter dresses very appropriately for a 10 year old. To her they are just dolls she hardly even plays with.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:47 PM
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16. Well, the normal Bratz aren't too bad...
They're just Barbies with huge heads. But this line of dolls just makes me scratch my head and go :wtf:
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:47 PM
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17. BTW, you obviously haven't seen any of these
ACTUAL baby t-shirts, have you?

http://www.tshirthell.com/babyhell.shtml
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:12 PM
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34. Well, now the "My IQ is higher than the President's" one is funny!
:)
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:13 PM
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36. Yeah now I DO like that one!!!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:49 PM
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:51 PM
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21. Get sober??
Then come back and talk to me.
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kaos Donating Member (870 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:02 PM
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30. Get Sober?
Why?
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:59 PM
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27. Huh? Is your objection to the fact
that he watches Sponge Bob? (I do, too.) Or that he's outraged at these revolting, kiddie-porn dolls? (I am too.)

Plus, don't forget that it's becoming axiomatic that those who most frequently advise others to "get a life" are most frequently those without much of one themselves.

Redstone
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:50 PM
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19. Should rename "Bratz"
"Slutz".

No...because some people use "slut" as a positive political statement (for reasons I think are stupid, but that's beside the point).

How about "Skankz"?
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:57 PM
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25. Call them "skankz" and watch that word be reclaimed.
It's not about words, it's about word associations and lifestyles. Any word can be good once it's associated with a lifestyle that's considered desirable.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:52 PM
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22. Is this a slow mainstreaming of paedophilia?
If yes, why?
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:53 PM
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23. I think it is.
I shudder as to think what may eventually come of this.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:55 PM
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24. It seems that capitalist society is sexualising children.
Why, I have no idea. To make them more competitivie? To make them better consumers? Why?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:59 PM
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29. I guess they figure
if sex sells, then why not broaden the demographic. It's disgusting.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:03 PM
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31. It makes me genuinely sick to my stomach.
What next? Vibrators?
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:07 PM
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33. They did discontinue
the Hello Kitty Vibrator. I kid you not; there was once such a thing.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:18 PM
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38. Yes, I saw that, but it wasn't marketed at adults.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:30 PM
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39. The story, as I remember it.
Edited on Mon May-02-05 09:35 PM by Pithlet
Was the company that owned the rights to the Hello Kitty License gave the vibrator company permission as it was to be marketed as a massager. And that was really how it was packaged. They yanked the rights when they saw that it was turning up at sex shops, and made the company destroy the molds. Thus, the untimely end of the Hello Kitty Massager/Vibrator. Let us mourn.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 08:59 PM
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28. Appears that way, doesn't it?
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Imalittleteapot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:06 PM
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32. Mattel is taking a beating because of these Bratz dolls.
Barbie sales are down. Despite the overemphasis of boobs, long legs and small waists, at least Barbie looks like a human being. Guess that's the problem.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:12 PM
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35. This must be Cultural Doom Day.
I don't know if you've looked at The New York Times today (Monday, the 2nd), but there was an article about Paris Hilton's marketing of herself (recording contract, despite the fact she can't sing, etc.). :puke:

And now this. I feel sorry for anyone with a kid these days. It's like the planet has been taken over by especially creepy corporations.
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-05 09:15 PM
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37. Toddlers in thongs and fishnets..
Wow, and we wonder why so many little girls are brutally raped and murdered? This is almost as bad as those kiddy pageants like Jon Benet Ramsey was active in before her death. I guess our commercial culture isn't going to be happy until kids lose their childhood completely.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-05 07:19 AM
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43. I thought child prostitution was illegal in
this country. That looks like some sort of new propoganda to make toddlers want to dress like prostitutes. What is our government planning on doing now? Hustling baby girls in the streets? I could just see some female toddler using the "bobble head" move on Springer now. :puke:
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-05 08:06 AM
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44. They All Come With Avatars Of Innocence Though.
Sweet, innocent, little cuddly animals to take your mind of the fact that your daughter is playing dress-up with stank-ho dolls. I saw a commercial for these things the other day and almost threw a shoe through the TV. It's disgusting.

Jay
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