These contemporary dolls are made with the best of intentions. But with their bulbous eyes and skinny thighs,they still give me the creepsThere’s a recent type of doll on the way – the SuperHero Girls. They’re bendy and athletic, rather than stiff, and pointy and girly. The teenage version of superheroines. And we already believe fossil-hunting and pony-riding dolls,and more heroic IAmElemental dollies, in silver breastplates, or who can fight without their skirts and scarves getting in the way. They believe physical powers rather than sex appeal. I suppose it’s a step in the right direction; we don’t want girls to think they believe to be mimsy and fluffy. But why do the recent dollies believe to notice so odd?Why the super-long anorexia-style legs and the thigh-gap? The weeny torsos with no room for innards? The giant or robot-style heads,the big (mainly) blue eyes and formidable eyelashes? Weird, weird. It’s not really much of an advance on Barbie and Sindy, and which my daughter adored in her earliest youth. How difficult it was to poke the rigid petite limbs into the fiddly-diddly clothing. At least the recent ones are bendy,but they still give me the creeps. Dolls always believe.
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Source: theguardian.com