monsters-and-microwave-pizzas:
Well, I guess it was only a matter of time before Monster High started encouraging body issues just like all the other dolls.
I was wondering when this was gonna start up!
Funfact: Skelita is a skeleton, as in, not a human, as in, she doesn’t have organs or skin or anything, as in, why aren’t people teaching their children body acceptance instead leaving them to think being a non-living, fictional, non-human is something to aspire to?
I actually heard it already! When I posted a pic of my kids skeleton CAM at Christmas! A girl immediately piped up about kids & dolls & body issues. I was like, really? She’s a …. skeleton?
I’m fat, I’ve been all my life. At least, that’s what my family told me. I don’t think I ever looked at a doll and thought “thats how I should be”. With my family’s assessment of my weight bored into my skull, I looked at every other girl in class and was jealous. Everyone on tv and was ashamed. All my favorite singers and wished for their bodies. The mannaquins at clothes stores, the ones that fit into the clothes that I couldn’t? I envied those bitches.
But a doll?
Lets get real. You guys, a whole new generation, are bringing “fat-shaming” into existence. And this is WONDERFUL! I’m too old to wear my extra 50 with pride, but I’m sure as hell watching this change occur with glee. Soon, I hope, this obsession with weight with cease.
My kid, probably as “overweight” as I was considered to be, has none such issues. She’s content with her body (at 12), as I’ve always focused on her health and well being, rather than her size. Though she sees me struggle with my weight, she’s like, “well, you’re still beautiful. If you want to lose weight, you can! You’ve done it before!” My little cheerleader.
She grew up with Barbie, Monster High, tiny-wasted Kim Possible, the very thin Hannah Montana, the gorgeously attired and “zaftig” Raven-Simone, and the funny and quirky (and tiny) Hilary Duff - and I don’t she’s ever had an issue with not being thin enough to look or dress like them. She went as Kim Possible and Asohka Tano for Halloween, and didn’t bemoan the fact that her (very normal) tummy stuck out, she was just proud of her costume.
Maybe its just me, but regardless of the outside influences, if you raise a kid to be concerned with their health and not their size - they aren’t going to be looking at a SKELETAL FASHION DOLL and thinking they should look like that.
k, this is the second time I’ve ranted about it. Sorry. I’m done. aaaah.