[crossposted from my personal blog, IzzyMom]
I thought I’d seen it all with padded bras for six year olds and Girls Gone Wild-inspired hot tub party bus toys and stripper poles being sold in the toy section and unmistakably phallic Dora toys and 1970’s Tab commercials that would make any modern woman retch but alas, it’s a bottomless pit, people.
Time to get your barf bags out again…
The Axe Effect, brought to you by the same people who also bring us those fabulous Evolution of Beauty videos (Dove). Be sure to click the different “Choose a Vixen†options under the girls and take note that this is something you actually download to your computer (PC only) and use your voice to “command†your “Vixen.†Nice. Glad to see we’ve come SO far since the “women’s lib†era in which I was raised.
Barbie’s Fashion Fever Shopping Boutique. Only slightly less insulting and stupid than those Teen Talk Barbies from 1994 that exclaimed “Math is tough! I love shopping!†this toy lets you shop ’til you drop with your ATM card and “you never run out of money!â€
My daughter showed me the vomitrocious Beauty Cuties website where “Beauty is our duty!†and then we sat there and ragged on it together. Ahhh…mother-daughter bonding; I do love it so. Note that the dolls look frighteningly similar to a certain other line of nasty, trashtacular dolls that I love to hate.
Got anything to add to this list or a post about something in the same ballpark? Let me know.
