I've been thinking a lot about boobs lately. Weird, I know. But our society has such a twisted focus on anatomy. While I lived in Mauritania I saw enough boobs to last a lifetime. They were functional, like an arm or a leg, and about as sexual as my big toe. They weren't a topic of conversation or of lust. They just were.
A couple nights ago on the news they were talking about this doll.
It is a doll that makes the motions of breastfeeding. It comes with an apron for the little girl to wear, so there is no physical contact and nothing indecent about it. However, Americans are in an uproar and have decided it is completely inappropriate! Apparently we are supposed to let little kids "remain children," and that it is gross and weird. But why are people really so disturbed by this? Surely my niece, who is 3, would enjoy this doll. She has a little brother and mimics all aspects of his care with her own baby doll, and I have witnessed part of that includes nursing! Isn't that part of being children? There is nothing sexual about this doll, but I get the feeling that our hyper-sexual culture is as uncomfortable as they would be if it was a little stripper doll--maybe even more so!
Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
1 comment:
I agree with you. Look at Bratz dolls. Those are not appropriate by any means but you don't see a huge story over it. They are about at close to stripper dolls as you can get without directly calling them that. Also our society is trying to twist what is normal into something that is profane. Its like, what you don't want your daughters to know what that their breasts were designed for feeding babies, and not to be sexy. I mean come on! Our society is getting more and more twiested
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