Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 09/3/2009
I Love My Pole Dancing Doll!
MOMMY I WANNA BE A POLE DANCER TOO!
Oh lawd. There is some debate over whether or not this product is real, according to ParentDish. I really hope it’s not, and yet I can sort of believe that it is, considering that British store Tesco released a similar product in 2006, (although it was about 10 times more offensive) — the Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit. It included a chrome pole, a ’sexy dance garter’ and an instructional DVD. It was condemned as “extremely dangerous” and even capable of “destroy(ing) children’s lives.”
Well, maybe a pole dancing kit won’t destroy lives. I don’t actually think every kid who would buy this would become a stripper. Why would we assume that little kids are SO STUPID that a doll they played with as little kids could completely shape their identity and future? But I’m not really sure we should be encouraging young girls to go sexualize themselves for the pleasure of others at quite THIS young an age. We should probably just keep it classy and wait until they’re teenagers.
Plus, all this coming after the creepy breast-feeding dolls. I mean…what is this? Dolls are either hyper-encouraging little girls to be mommies-in-training or hyper-sexualizing them? Why the extremism?
I never thought I’d think of Barbie as a lesser evil. I mean at least she’s been a zoologist, doctor, chef, astronaut, and my personal favorite SeaWorld Trainer. Even if she would be like 8 feet tall and a size 0000 in real life…at least she’s getting some shit done.
And cue the announcement of newly released Exotic Dancer Barbie…
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Becca @ at 1:07 pm, September 3rd, 2009
Oh dear… The situation with Tesco is less about the evils of pushing sexuality onto children and more about the morons they employ. The pole is clearly for adults, but bear in mind that these are the same people who put books on Josef Fritzl in the “perfect gifts for fathers day” section of the store!
Zoe @ at 6:18 pm, September 3rd, 2009
Yeah, not so much.
In regards to the breast-feeding baby doll, I don’t see so much harm in that. Making a doll solely revolving around that purpose, yeah, sorta awkward, but I used to “breast feed” my baby dolls when I was younger too. Whatever. I’m in college and still don’t have plans to have kids yet (unlike most of my high school class), so no big deal.
Brooke @ at 12:38 am, September 4th, 2009
Why is the breastfeeding doll creepy? There are so many dolls that have bottles and encourage formula feeding. I really see formula feeding as very anti-feminist, so much of it depends on making women feel like they are inferior to what male scientist can create and male doctors can sell. I’ve never actually bought my daughter a doll, but somehow she has ended up with three baby dolls. She nurses them, she would love a doll that makes nursing sounds. I don’t actually think there is anything wrong with encouraging girls to be mothers or nurturing to children if they naturally are drawn to that. I think the problem is that male children are often told to push their nurturing instincts aside. I just follow what my daughter is interested in. Sometimes it is playing with dolls, other times it is playing with Legos, sometimes she likes playing in her toy kitchen. I don’t think I would be able to encouraging her playing with a stripping pole toy though, lol.
Angela @ at 4:13 pm, September 4th, 2009
About the breast feeding doll, Its really not very different than bottle feeding the doll. Except that breast feeding is natural. I think the fact that breasts are so sexualized is whats making that seem creepy. Breastfeeding is a natural process that a lot of kids emulate anyways…from what you said I could probably say that all dolls are sexualizing kids and trying to turn them into “little mommies”
Alex Catgirl @ at 2:05 pm, September 5th, 2009
@Brooke, you do realize that about 57% of those biomedical scientists are women right? Women MDs will soon outnumber men as well.
I thought the hungry baby doll was cute, given that really girls don’t have developed, or even sorta developed, breasts soo how would they know where the baby goes? Little girls are to young to be deciding if they want a baby or not, but it is an option for most of them, just like deciding to be a zoologist, doctor, chef, astronaut, or SeaWorld Trainer.
Don’t knock exotic dancers either, a friend of mine makes really good money working part time doing it. If I wasn’t worried about my mum crucifying me with my super high heels or strangling me with a G-string if/when she found out, I’d try it out for the novelty factor.
Some of those girls bad arse quotient is off the charts, they abuse the clientèle…and get paid for it! What’s not to love
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