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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsmom 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=rss1I 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 dont 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 its appropriate for their child. Its kinda late to take it back now that shes 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
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)who aren't aware that boys have penises?
Even the most sheltered fundie girls have seen little boys getting their diapers changed.
treestar
(82,383 posts)This is ridiculous. Why hide that fact from children?
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)This is obviously the worst thing that's ever happened to children.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Game over man, game over!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Improves the chances of their children voting GOP...
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)naive and gullible ... willing to believe the republican authoritarians with no brain involved.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)"Its kinda late to take it back now that shes 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)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.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)so they aren't "sexual."
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)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)I mean, other than that she's obviously a right-wing nut job fundamentalist?
What is WRONG with those people?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I don't think dolls should even have buttocks.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)seaglass
(8,171 posts)This is just weird. I think Ken and G.I. Joe should get their penises (penii?) first.
d_r
(6,907 posts)seaglass
(8,171 posts)mea culpa
I edited my post below.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5322228
closeupready
(29,503 posts)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)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)is considered "normal." Boy dolls have penises and girl dolls have nothing?
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)To claim that a child is harmed by seeing a penis on a doll is beyond stupid.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)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)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.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)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.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)but you're shocked that the kid sees where the piss comes from?
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)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
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Now he knows all about male/female anatomy. Loves to play Human Body app on iPad. Future doctor.
LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)Wow!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Says a lot about the uptight attitudes that are far too prevelant.
mythology
(9,527 posts)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)So do boys, but on boys they're cute.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)good question
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)that there really are people who think like this.
And they vote ...
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)When was about five, I noticed that little girls were pretty aggressive in wanting to play doctor.
mcar
(42,302 posts)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)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)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.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)Betcha a dollar she doesn't know what it is.
Seriously, this bs has gone back and forth since the 70s.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Why not demystify genitals?
no_hypocrisy
(46,083 posts)The first commercial anatomically correct baby boy was introduced in the Seventies to celebrate the birth of the son of Gloria & Michael Stivic (and Archie Bunker's first grandchild) in "All In The Family". The doll was called the Joey doll, named after the baby.
http://www.momlogic.com/2009/08/top_11_most_controversial_dolls.php#8
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=806&bih=491&q=the+joey+doll+%2B+stivic&oq=the+joey+doll+%2B+stivic&gs_l=img.3...1734.5785.0.5994.22.11.0.11.11.0.312.1838.0j3j4j1.8.0....0...1ac.1.51.img..14.8.1825.eJpB6nE4Uro
Hekate
(90,645 posts)...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.