The radicals are at it again. Those Columbian feminazis. Trying to unseat Barbie and make her life harder. As if her problems with Ken are not enough. They are coming up with a new politically correct doll. Yeees, another one. This one is, how should I put it, "sexual." As in letting it all hang out. And those "functional breasts!!" Can you believe it? I mean they are not just things you drewl at. No, no. You actually do things with them and babies. Yuck! But the worst thing about this sordid affair is that thing down under. These people are actually showing it. No, I'm not talking about Australia. Sorry, I can't say the word. I'm blushing just thinking about it. Let me see if I can say it without saying it: it's when a woman doesn't have a Brazilian waxing! Got it?If you don't know what I'm talking about, read on:
"Amamanta, Spanish for breastfeeding, is a blend of two words that mean love and protection. It is also the name of a doll family whose members may appeal to holiday shoppers looking beyond the latest Barbie or Bratz doll for a present that's non-hazardous to body image and can also educate about how babies are made, born and nurtured. Each 16-inch cloth adult Amamanta doll has genitals and pubic hair, and the mother doll features breasts that can be snapped onto the baby doll's mouth to help reinforce the importance of breastfeeding. "I wish children to be happy and grow with the idea that sexuality is important and is part of our lives," says Margarita Maria Mesa Leal, owner of the company that makes the dolls. Leal hand sews dolls herself, in addition to employing 27 local women in Medellin, Colombia, all of them mothers."
Not everyone is buying.
"In fact, as Women's eNews was interviewing Morales, at a coffee shop on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he pulled out an Amamanta Family of dolls to show the way in which a baby can be "born" from the mother's stomach and then snapped onto a breast to simulate breastfeeding. His demonstration offended a man at a nearby table who angrily asked, "Do you mind?"
(in Arabic)
An aside: I would buy the doll even if only to spite this kind of man. Would you buy it?
9 comments:
I have a female relative who is married to a woman. they have two children one from each mother, same donor who is a family friend.
they have a baby boy and a 2yo girl. I asked her if she would buy such a doll for her babies. She said they were too ugly.
Well she said Eweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
But what do the kids say? But wait, how am I going to argue with the judgement of a woman with such feminist credentials? : )
Well it's not the feminist credentials that I was pointing to. Just that the market segment that the producer is trying to target seems to be very thin.
If they can't sell the doll to butch-femme parents of two, who's going to buy the dolls?
But I did enjoy writing the original comment anticipating some annoyances concerning my hint of feminist credentials. It's just so typical:-)
I hate it when I'm so predictable!
The problem with the doll for me is that it looks too much like a third world doll. I had something similar to that growing up--my grandmother made it for me from buttons and thread and rags. It looked ok; but I coveted what what the neighbor girl had--a barbie : (
You're only predictable after the even;-) but who is to know.
My cousin's other comment was that the doll was typically American, ignoring sexuality and de-sexualizing birth/ breast feeding.
Her view is that breast feeding is itself sexual and attractive.
She's weird but is reading your blog, from Australia, I've now moved to Australia permanently thus the Australian hits to your blog.
My only objection to her was that she couldn't find a good Arab woman to marry; i said think of the children:-) Now I'm wondering of the kids can get Palestinian citizenship come the promised state. hmmm
You see by association I too have feminist credentials:-)
Amal take a look at this:
link
I honestly thought it was a parody at the beginning! But it's not. I guess he's one of those the Mother Ship left behind!
Rabee,
about what your cousin said: I thought the doll is making the point that breast feeding is sexual and attractive. How is it desexualizing?
Btw, your hits don't show up as Australia, but as "unknown country". I was worried there for a while :) bass el hamdellah 3al salameh
Hi Amal that's curios. Unknown country is usually PA; typically from tarshi7a and Ramallah. Australia always shows up. I know for a fact that there are academics here that read your blog (not just me)
use
http://google.com/analytics
its more accurate
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