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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 09:48 AM Aug 2014

mom outraged by anatomically correct baby boy doll. new shipments have warning on package

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/should-dolls-have-anatomically-correct-genitals-this-mom-doesnt-think-so/article19847833/?cmpid=rss1

“I took my daughter to buy a new baby at toys r us. And she was so excited to find a baby boy doll because it was dressed in blue. But when she went to change his diaper, this was the surprise. Why?? These r little girls that don’t need to know the anatomy,” she wrote, according to News 96.5.com, a Florida-based radio station (the original Facebook page is no longer available).

Some parents sided with Burgmann. “O WoW!!!,” wrote Betty Grooms Huff in reply to the post. “Packaging should be more specific so parents can make the choice whether or not it’s appropriate for their child. It’s kinda late to take it back now that she’s already been exposed to seeing that. I mean the damage is done and it left you having to explain things sooner than you wanted to.”

Another seemed even more shocked than Burgmann. “This is nuts! Figuratively & literally!” wrote Candida DeMasse Krupa.

Others, however, not only shrugged it off as no big deal, but said the doll is a valuable tool to educate kids.


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mom was shocked to find an anatomically correct male baby doll while playing with her daughter. Outrage resulted when she posted a picture of the doll online. Some parents think the doll is inappropriate for children, others simply ask the manufacture to put a warning on the packaging. 

"Please note that the current packaging clearly state 'anatomically correct'," says Kathleen Waugh, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Toys"R"Us, Inc. "The earlier shipments last year did not have it noted on the packaging, but the current inventory does."

http://www.hlntv.com/video/2014/07/31/anatomically-correct-baby-boy-doll-shocks-shoppers

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mom outraged by anatomically correct baby boy doll. new shipments have warning on package (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Aug 2014 OP
How many girls are there really XemaSab Aug 2014 #1
My first thought too treestar Aug 2014 #29
Won't somebody please think of the children!!!! sharp_stick Aug 2014 #2
An anatomically correct doll for right-wing reactionaries wouldn't come with a brain. nt onehandle Aug 2014 #3
OMGz it's got a penis!!! Rex Aug 2014 #4
"liitle girls should not be shown that on dolls" Liberal_in_LA Aug 2014 #6
Yeah republicans like to keep their children dumb and ignorant. Rex Aug 2014 #7
Yep, that's pretty much the republican bottom line ... dumb, ignorant, uneducated, RKP5637 Aug 2014 #13
This is just plain sad gollygee Aug 2014 #5
To fundamentalists everything is sexual Drale Aug 2014 #23
They may be suffering from the "forbidden fruit " syndrome. nt ladjf Aug 2014 #35
So when do they demand Matel take the 'boobs' off of Barbie? sinkingfeeling Aug 2014 #8
Not real boobs, there are no nipples justiceischeap Aug 2014 #45
Yep, baby boys have no sexual organs, none knows about sex until 18 and after. Everyone is sexless. RKP5637 Aug 2014 #9
Why are you assuming the woman is a right-wing nut job fundamentalist? Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 #10
Dolls with penises? Appalling. Nye Bevan Aug 2014 #11
Doll's name?......Dick SoCalDem Aug 2014 #19
The baby girl dolls are not anatomically correct so why should baby boy dolls be? seaglass Aug 2014 #12
here, let me google that for you d_r Aug 2014 #27
Yes, sometimes it is helpful to rely on google rather than past experience. seaglass Aug 2014 #46
So dogs don't have penises and testicles? Or do they dress their dogs closeupready Aug 2014 #14
Seeing normal anatomy as obscene is the real obscenity. alphafemale Aug 2014 #15
I think it's weird. There is no normal anatomy on baby girl dolls unless a blank piece of plastic seaglass Aug 2014 #25
I think that is manufacturing cheapness rather than prudishness. alphafemale Aug 2014 #30
I figured the manufacturer makes anatomically correct dolls of both sexes. redqueen Aug 2014 #39
Most baby dolls are made with no genitalia. Of course I don't think it harms a child for a baby seaglass Aug 2014 #43
PENIS!!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! nt msanthrope Aug 2014 #16
OH NO!!! IT'S GOING INTO HULK-MODE!!! DetlefK Aug 2014 #17
DON'T MAKE IT ANGRY!!! YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE IT ANGRY!!! nt msanthrope Aug 2014 #18
I'm pretty sure! libodem Aug 2014 #21
Exactly....children learn what they live. nt msanthrope Aug 2014 #22
So you think it's cute to buy your kid a doll that pisses itself then cries, mr blur Aug 2014 #20
exactly. Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2014 #24
Oh, for crissakes! pipi_k Aug 2014 #26
Best answer for thread win! Mnemosyne Aug 2014 #49
I've been showering with my 5yr old since he was 3. JaneyVee Aug 2014 #28
Do all mothers keep their little ones away when changing diapers of babies? LiberalFighter Aug 2014 #31
"The damage is done"????? joeybee12 Aug 2014 #32
They want the warning label where? mythology Aug 2014 #33
Boys have wee-wees!!?? What next. Will we discover that girls have nipples!! Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #34
And on girls they're... ? redqueen Aug 2014 #40
... lol ... Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2014 #44
Attractive? Sensual? Naughty? Necessary? Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #54
except on Christopher Lee: then they're a sign of his repression MisterP Aug 2014 #47
I'm kicking and reccing this because everyone needs a laugh, and/or reminder MH1 Aug 2014 #36
Wonder if Mom knows her darling little girl has been playing doctor aint_no_life_nowhere Aug 2014 #37
She mustn't have sons mcar Aug 2014 #38
Mine were nudists too and it drove my mother nuts. kickitup Aug 2014 #51
They must have loved that, kickitup mcar Aug 2014 #53
She must have been raised by nevernudes redqueen Aug 2014 #41
lol opiate69 Aug 2014 #42
Well Candida better change her name then. nolabear Aug 2014 #48
This article blurs out the offending parts. What a silly thing to be upset about. uppityperson Aug 2014 #50
This is sooooo retro. no_hypocrisy Aug 2014 #52
I suppose those moms are planning to hide their boy babies' peenies ... Hekate Aug 2014 #55
I wish the Puritans' boats had sunk in the middle of the Atlantic. Arugula Latte Aug 2014 #56

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
1. How many girls are there really
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 09:52 AM
Aug 2014

who aren't aware that boys have penises?

Even the most sheltered fundie girls have seen little boys getting their diapers changed.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
2. Won't somebody please think of the children!!!!
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 09:53 AM
Aug 2014

This is obviously the worst thing that's ever happened to children.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
7. Yeah republicans like to keep their children dumb and ignorant.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:03 AM
Aug 2014

Improves the chances of their children voting GOP...

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
13. Yep, that's pretty much the republican bottom line ... dumb, ignorant, uneducated,
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:10 AM
Aug 2014

naive and gullible ... willing to believe the republican authoritarians with no brain involved.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
5. This is just plain sad
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 09:58 AM
Aug 2014
"It’s kinda late to take it back now that she’s already been exposed to seeing that. I mean the damage is done and it left you having to explain things sooner than you wanted to.”


Who thinks seeing a doll that looks like an actual baby boy is "damage?" That's horribly sad. There is nothing sexual about a baby. I can't even wrap my brain around that.

Drale

(7,932 posts)
23. To fundamentalists everything is sexual
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 11:14 AM
Aug 2014

Sex is all they think about all the time but their god tells them that its wrong and that's why they are angry all the time.

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
9. Yep, baby boys have no sexual organs, none knows about sex until 18 and after. Everyone is sexless.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:07 AM
Aug 2014

Yet another WTF. We would be so much better off as a country if our outrage energy/attention focused more on solutions to the enormous problems facing this country in the coming years than this visceral stuff.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
10. Why are you assuming the woman is a right-wing nut job fundamentalist?
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:09 AM
Aug 2014

I mean, other than that she's obviously a right-wing nut job fundamentalist?

What is WRONG with those people?

seaglass

(8,171 posts)
12. The baby girl dolls are not anatomically correct so why should baby boy dolls be?
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:09 AM
Aug 2014

This is just weird. I think Ken and G.I. Joe should get their penises (penii?) first.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
14. So dogs don't have penises and testicles? Or do they dress their dogs
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:11 AM
Aug 2014

in doggie pants?

Willful ignorance has plumbed new depths of stupidity.

This is sort of like the mainstream TV networks blurring the bulges in men wearing underwear or speedos while playing the team tasks on Suvivor or Amazing Race while the women have camel toes and boobs bouncing around for days.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
15. Seeing normal anatomy as obscene is the real obscenity.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:11 AM
Aug 2014

I hope she never takes her sheltered spawn to a petting zoo.

Can you imagine putting morality pants on an Alpaca?

seaglass

(8,171 posts)
25. I think it's weird. There is no normal anatomy on baby girl dolls unless a blank piece of plastic
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 11:44 AM
Aug 2014

is considered "normal." Boy dolls have penises and girl dolls have nothing?

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
30. I think that is manufacturing cheapness rather than prudishness.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:19 PM
Aug 2014

To claim that a child is harmed by seeing a penis on a doll is beyond stupid.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
39. I figured the manufacturer makes anatomically correct dolls of both sexes.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:50 PM
Aug 2014

But like closeupready said, male anatomy is not shown nearly as often as female, so perhaps that's why no one has yet freaked out over an anatomically correct baby girl doll. It's not portrayed in media as The Thing Which Must Never Be Shown.

seaglass

(8,171 posts)
43. Most baby dolls are made with no genitalia. Of course I don't think it harms a child for a baby
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 01:08 PM
Aug 2014

doll to have anatomically correct genitalia (I am in favor of ALL dolls, male and female having anatomically correct genitalia). But since the majority of baby dolls have no genitalia and the dolls were originally on the market without the label on the packaging that they were anatomically correct - I can see at least a surprised reaction.

I am not in favor of anatomically correct boy baby dolls without anatomically correct girl baby dolls. THAT I would find damaging. Boys have genitalia, girls don't.

On edit: I stand corrected - that's what happens when you have a 25 year old daughter and no little ones in the family interested in baby dolls - had no idea that anatomically correct dolls - both male and female - were so prevalent. I do think it is a good thing, I also think labeling would be good for anyone who objects to genitalia.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
21. I'm pretty sure!
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:39 AM
Aug 2014

It's nearly killed me just thinking about it. I have a set of twin dolls from the 50's or 60's. They are both endowed with parts.

I think the horrified reaction is way more damaging than the wee wee on a doll. Children learn what they live.

 

mr blur

(7,753 posts)
20. So you think it's cute to buy your kid a doll that pisses itself then cries,
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 10:38 AM
Aug 2014

but you're shocked that the kid sees where the piss comes from?

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
26. Oh, for crissakes!
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:08 PM
Aug 2014

Why don't these people borrow a neighbor's Dremel tool and grind the whole damned business off?

"I'm sorry, Susie...it was a mistake at the factory but we'll take care of it" BZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTT


Problem solved.




sigh

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
28. I've been showering with my 5yr old since he was 3.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:13 PM
Aug 2014

Now he knows all about male/female anatomy. Loves to play Human Body app on iPad. Future doctor.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
33. They want the warning label where?
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:30 PM
Aug 2014

If it's on the package, wouldn't it be too late to not see the dreaded penis of much consternation?

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
34. Boys have wee-wees!!?? What next. Will we discover that girls have nipples!!
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:36 PM
Aug 2014

So do boys, but on boys they're cute.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
54. Attractive? Sensual? Naughty? Necessary?
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 02:54 PM
Aug 2014
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock

MH1

(17,600 posts)
36. I'm kicking and reccing this because everyone needs a laugh, and/or reminder
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:39 PM
Aug 2014

that there really are people who think like this.

And they vote ...

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
37. Wonder if Mom knows her darling little girl has been playing doctor
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:40 PM
Aug 2014

When was about five, I noticed that little girls were pretty aggressive in wanting to play doctor.

mcar

(42,302 posts)
38. She mustn't have sons
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:44 PM
Aug 2014

Both my boys were little nudists through preschool. They were always running around nekkid.

If the little girl has brothers, she already knows what a penis is.

kickitup

(355 posts)
51. Mine were nudists too and it drove my mother nuts.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 02:27 PM
Aug 2014

I would let them swim naked in their little pool and they would go to her house expecting to do the same thing. She was horrified, I think, that they didn't even think about covering up. We also had a swing in a big old tree and I would let them swing naked, which I thought must have felt just wonderful.

mcar

(42,302 posts)
53. They must have loved that, kickitup
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 02:35 PM
Aug 2014

I was looking at some old photos recently and found a great one of my youngest (now 17, then about 2) running naked through the living room in sheer joy.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
48. Well Candida better change her name then.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 01:41 PM
Aug 2014

Betcha a dollar she doesn't know what it is.

Seriously, this bs has gone back and forth since the 70s.

Hekate

(90,645 posts)
55. I suppose those moms are planning to hide their boy babies' peenies ...
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 03:04 PM
Aug 2014

...and make diaper changing a secretive affair so their girls won't find out?

This is very weird to me. I got my toddler a Mattel Baby Brother doll in 1976 or 77' then produced a real baby brother for her in 1978. I used to bathe them together too.

And in my mother's house what was inside baby diapers was no secret as she taught me to help take care of my younger sibs.

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