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The Debate about Bratz Dolls
Bratz Dolls are Slutty and a Poor Example for Little Girls
Is this what we really want our little girls playing with? Fishnet Stockings, fitted leather jumpsuits, and thongs? Dolls who are marketed sitting like pinups? Oh, even their name annoys me!
I an fearful of what these girls will grow up be. They have been taught that this is the norm.Bratz Toys
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What is YOUR opinion of Bratz dolls?
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Bratz Dolls are Slutty and a Poor Example for Little Girls
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lisa says:
bratz are big sluts and they are so skinny and they dress so much like a slut
Posted December 15, 2009
DzaBu says:
I completely agree with you. Bratz gril shouldn't be for girls and kids under the age of 12.
Posted November 14, 2009
Pukeko says:
Great debate, and I completely agree with you. We don't have any of these Bratz (although the name seems fitting!)
Posted November 01, 2009
maribel. says:
they are scary looing and big headed freaks. is it true the material that it is made with bad for your health?
Posted October 21, 2009
theraggededge says:
Yes, they are... but my daughter loves 'em and she learned to read because I refused to read the Bratz books to her. She will also spend hours re-designing their clothes - with scissors, writing plays for them and generally messing up her brother's Lego games with her slutty dolls.
Posted October 08, 2009
StevenCavendish says:
Definitely way too sexual for young girls in my opinion. I'm glad my girls have never asked for them.
Posted October 01, 2009
calicoskies says:
I think that they are terrible. They look very sexual for a child's toy and they have an anorexic look to them. We need dolls that reflect healthy body images. What's with the lips on these dolls?
Posted September 29, 2009
j_barnhart4 says:
I agree with you completely. I will not buy these dolls for my little girls even though they continue to ask for them. What is the deal? Barbie was good enough for me and is good enough for them.
Posted July 22, 2009
Karissa says:
Hey people!!!! Girls cannot be educated by dolls!!!!!!!! So quite talking trash about bratz!!!!!! I'm 11 and I own bratz dolls and I don't dress like that!!! Isaac Larian says that kids are very smart and they know right from wrong!!! He also says it's the parents job to teach the children not the doll!!!! UNDERSTAND???!!! I'm very angry with you people!!!
Posted July 21, 2009
susan says:
they are a horrible example, my niece wants to dress like them... she Only 8!!!!!!!!!
Posted February 02, 2009
dannystaple says:
I cannot stand the toys. I would not buy one for my children or someone else's. This question did not ask to ban them, it did not ask if they are more/less slutty than a Barbie. Just if they are slutty and a poor example. In which case, I have to honestly say yes. I would not agree to ban them though.
Posted December 18, 2008
bgamall says:
Maybe but they will just smuggle them from outside the country, lol.
Posted December 16, 2008
No way, Monkeybrain!
bobby says:
my daughter loves bratz dolls anyways isnt it up to them to pick out the stuff they want to play with?
Posted December 04, 2009
MGAE says:
you realy suck who ever came up with this hey im on you tube so lets talk about this barbie is the thing that makes me cry the fashon realy makes me throup so if you like barbie oh my god you would be Quen Suck! you would grow up with poor taste and live in a box and have no friends and suck at everything you do and every one on you tube rely love bratz and every one in your family will hate you and never try pink you will look supider than barbieand barbie sucks like you i hope you are crying like your style because you have no idea who you are speecing to well i will tell you enyway im the daghter of the person who created Bratz and shut this website down or els i will tell my dad about this website! see you in the dupster old hag! ps the squids are ugly!they suck just like you!
Posted November 15, 2009
Elizibeth says:
Forget the cloths these things wear...the fact you pull their feet off to change their shoes creeps the hell out of me... Does that mean i think it will lead to kid yanking other kids feet off... no it is as a toy. a bad toy but a toy. you don't like it don't buy it... 20 years ago no one would have been saying the word sexy and little kids in the same sentance.
Posted March 17, 2009
PoisonTheMonkey says:
Barbies are just as bad. I don't think reality is a bad thing to show girls. Just make sure they understand and stop being a lazy parent.
Posted September 29, 2008
Corin says:
Your kids could play with figures of anatomical members and be just fine as long as the people in their lives are truly loving-lol. I have seen children go through the most horrific of events and as long as there are unselfish and loving people out there that open their hearts to help the children, they have grown up with a love in their hearts I cannot mirror- even with my faith. Are toys and dolls the root of our societies wrongdoing to ourselves and others? Absolutely not. Should we concern ourselves with this issue? Let us detach and divorce ourselves from these minor trivialities and look inward at why we are TRULY uncomfortable at the appearance of a simple toy.
Posted August 24, 2008
Laciejaye says:
My little sisters love Bratz dolls. They are pretty and fun to play with . Little girls do not realize people or dolls as "slutty". They probably don't even know what that means. They just look at the Bratz doll and think it is the same as all the rest of the dolls that they have. So for all you people who think Bratz dolls are "slutty", you must think that cabbage patch kids, barbies, my scene dolls, littlest pet shop, and many others are all slutty too.
Posted May 29, 2008
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I don't like Bratz Dolls either! Bratz Dolls display a poor taste in fashion. The tight, leathery-looking outfit make them look grungy. Moreover, those Bratz Dolls show off big eyeballs with overly-done makeup; to me they look like circus clowns. They look very artificial to me, and they don't emphasize natural beauty if you think about their appearance carefully.
Yet, I don't think that they could really make little girls slutty either. On TV, there are already lots of slutty shows (like soap operas and reality TV shows) and advertisements. I don't that Bratz Dolls could set a poor example for people. I agree with the comment that the decision to be slutty actually lies with the people.
Posted May 10, 2008
Katie says:
As far as I'm concerned, this argument is an extension of the "violent video games turn nice happy sunshine children into horrible semi-automatic-wielding monsters" argument. Sure, they're annoying, they look exactly like my mental image of an objectified woman, and they seem to glorify a kind of big city nightlife (oh no!). But those three attributes might be just as easily ascribed to pretty much ANYTHING else in the common experience of American culture.
And I'm rather of the opinion that Mattel, Universal Studios, MGM, McDonald's - whatever, you name it - will sell what they know people will buy. What I'm saying is: Bratz didn't CREATE a market. They filled an already existing demand.
Don't take issue with the toy. It's a symptom, and like a hydra, trying to get rid of it will only spawn two more just like it. Get at the source. We're a sexually confused, lonely society. We've got to educate our children, and be honest with them, before our mistakes get to them.
Posted April 12, 2008
Arend-Jan says:
probablt the toys we're crafted after observing what childeren wear themselves these days (and what their parents buy for them)
so hurray for the dolls and their reflection of society.
Whole discussion just means people have nothing better to do than picking on small innocent toys. Childeren don't even see the difference between "good" and "bad" clothing anyway.
Posted April 07, 2008
Keshina says:
That Barbie is Sluttty and is a poor example for little girls.
I say she slutty because why in the world would you create a barbie doll thats pregnant and girls as old of 3 yrs. are playing with the doll. I think that sends a bad example. We are suppose to be stopping them from getting pregnant at a young age, not encouraging them to go out and get pregnant. Now in this situation whose the sluttest
Posted April 05, 2008
A Little Background on Bratz
Bratz is a popular and controversial line of fashion dolls and related merchandise designed by Carter Bryant and manufactured by southern California toy company MGA Entertainment. The four original 10" dolls - Cloe, Jade, Sasha, and Yasmin - are teenagers distinguished by large heads and skinny bodies, almond-shaped eyes adorned with eyeshadow, and lush, glossy lips.
Though Bratz dolls fared poorly at their June 2001 debut, their popularity increased the following Christmas. In their first five years, 125 million were sold worldwide, and, in 2005, global sales of Bratz and Bratz products reached two billion dollars. In 2006, a toy-industry analyst indicated Bratz had captured about forty percent of the fashion-doll market, compared with Barbie's sixty per cent.
Bratz have provoked controversy in several areas. Criticism has been leveled at the labor conditions under which the dolls are manufactured in China, and the American Psychological Association has expressed concern about the sexualization of the dolls' clothing and its effect on children. Some of the Bratz characters dress in what is perceived by some as a provocative manner. The original dolls generated a number of spin-offs such as Lil' Bratz, Bratz Boyz, Bratz Kidz, Bratz Babyz, Itsy Bitsy Bratz, Bratz Lil' Angelz, Be-Bratz and Bratz Petz as well as films, music albums, and interactive DVDs.
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Bratz dolls come dressed in sexualized clothing such as miniskirts, fishnet stockings, and feather boas. Although these dolls may present no more sexualization of girls or women than is seen in MTV videos, it is worrisome when dolls designed specifically for 4- to 8-year-olds are associated with an objectified adult sexuality.
- APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
Would you let your child play with Bratz?
Anti-Bratz Links
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Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
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At Least One Bratz Babyz Has Abandoned Her Thong
Out of the box, Dejah turned the doll over and dis more...2 points
Aren't 'Bratz' dolls basically teaching girls at a young age to become shallow mindless sluts?
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Girls aged 5 sexualised by toys like Bratz dolls, MSPs told
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Bratz Dolls May Give Girls Unrealistic Expectations Of Head Size
Bratz the Movie
Bratz (Widescreen Edition)
Amazon Price: $12.49 (as of 12/21/2009)
Although movie did serve to tone down the sexy nature of the Bratz Dolls (In an effort, I imagine, to keep a lower rating), the movie still is a part of this sexy Bratz brand. I also read that a designer from the movie (Jeffrey, from Project Runway) was fired after saying Bratz were "Slutty" in an interview.
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Tween girls will love'Bratz,' parents should check cynicism at the door
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- Pukeko Pukeko Nov 1, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
- Great debate. It was really interesting to read the other side of the debate, as I have been flat dead against them since the first time I heard their name. It only got worse when I saw one. This monkeybrain blessed by an angel.
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- kimmanleyort kimmanleyort Sep 29, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
- Very good idea for a Monkey Brain. Gets people thinking.
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- calicoskies calicoskies Sep 29, 2009 @ 1:38 pm
- One of the best Monkey Brain lenses I have seen!
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Sep 25, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
- Since I don't have kids and many of my friends don't, I've never actually seen these dolls. Looks like you have a good debate going on up there, with valid points on either side. Me, I do kinda think the clothes are a bit on the slut-ish side, and I wouldn't be too thrilled if I had a young daughter who was dressing like the dolls. But I really have no idea how influential dolls like this are. Obviously, most young kids who'd play with these have to rely on parents to buy their clothing, so I wouldn't think most parents would give in to their ten year-old buying fishnets.
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- bgamall bgamall Dec 16, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
- They may be age appropriate for older children, so maybe the parents are the final decisionmakers, not some boneheaded psychologist who has been divorced 40 times.
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- kab kab Dec 5, 2008 @ 8:51 pm | in reply to Ener-G
- Because by putting a sales link up, I can use those graphics to show people who may not be instantly able to conjure up an image in their heads of what the dolls look like. Also, this is a page where both sides can express their thoughts. I explained my opinion, and I will not be purchasing them, but should someone disagree with me, then since it is America, I have no problem with them buying them.
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- Ener-G Ener-G Dec 5, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
- Why are you selling Bratz products if you are against them? This is exactly the double message that our kids get. They follow our actions more than our words.
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- mompowereddreams mompowereddreams Jun 13, 2008 @ 11:16 am
- Maybe They Don't Seem Harmful To Little Girls As Little Girls, But Subconsciously They Will And Parents Will Notice The Negative Effect As Their Daughter Grows Older. Also Agree With Theresa Markham About The Attitude Of Bratz. But Its The Whole Picture And Why Parents (And I AM A Parent) Really Need To Think Consciously About The Toys We Let Our Kids Play With In General As A Whole And Not Just Bratz Dolls.
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- mulberry mulberry May 8, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
- Good point! Bad influence abound...lensrolling this one.
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- blondeheroine blondeheroine May 8, 2008 @ 12:10 am
- And to add a p.s. to my comment above, fantastic idea for a debate. No matter what the naysayers say. The fact that you've got them all hopping mad is proof that this debate is a success. 5*
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- FretTube FretTube Apr 13, 2008 @ 9:53 am
- HooRaaa-Arend-Jan, That's what I say! The toys are only an extension of our selves.
If the parents are that worried about the toys,
maybe they should look into changing their own lives as well?
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- TheresaMarkham TheresaMarkham Mar 18, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
- I care more about the name, "Bratz" than the dresscode of these things. Having "Bratz" stuff around leads to "Bratty" attitudes - and in life, attitude, centeredness, balance, and healthy self-esteem is everything! IALAC All the Best, Theresa
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- Bruce_Beerdrinker Bruce_Beerdrinker Feb 20, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
- LOL capitalism at it's finest, a debate about how Bratz are bad, but here at the bottom a link to Ebay auctions selling Bratz stuff.
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