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[silversolitaire]

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Wal-Mart pulled Barbie's friend Midge from the shelves because she's pregnant. They say it promotes teenage pregnancy. Funny, Midge is married to Alan since 1991, already has a 3-yo son and wears a wedding ring. And this gives a negative image? And the My Scene Barbies aren't promoting a negative image? They only think about clothes, cellphones and boys... oh wait, that's what teenagers are supposed to think about. Not family and icky stuff like that. They sell video games that promote violence, magazines that promote puking up every meal to look beautiful, they even sell Spawn toys that are some of the goriest toys ever seen. But a married pregnant woman? No, that's definitely negative. *nods*

>_< Idiots.

Comments

[ladysorka]

*pets her pregnant Midge doll*

Wal-mart has never exactly been known for it's equality. *sighs*

[boixboi.livejournal.com]

The United States is ruled by the stupidest of its masses, who are SO FUCKING DUMB, they come in and bitch and write letters when they see this pregnant doll, and don't have the intelligence of a fucking gnat, and these dumbasses threaten to boycott, etc, and so Walmart pulls things from its shelves.

Angry? Me? No. It's practically a perfect society when stupid people who complain get all the 'progress' they want for their personal fucking morals. /sarcasm

USians

[tomkayito.livejournal.com]

Isn't it true? The US is just a bunch of stupid people who don't even stop to understand what they're complaining about.

All it takes is one stupid USian to look at something the wrong way and they can make an entire movement against a product. Where else would a lady win a multi-million dollar court case for pouring scalding coffee on herself, would unnecesary violence, bloodshed, explosives, and gore be rated lower than mild nudity, and would simple toys that aren't even that fun to play with get entire TV series dedicated to them, large scale competitions, and sponsor money from other companies?

The eager people wanting to make a dollar, television and entertainment that people want, combined with the companies who want to keep making money off of substandard products, this is what drives the US economy and society to be what it is now, instead of what it could be.

I should know. I have the pleasure of being a US citizen. All I can say in our defense is please don't judge us all by these few.

[jessindistress.livejournal.com]

That is so seriously fucked up. Even if Midge was a teenager- go her. At least it would be like saying, "Teenage pregnancy happens," rather than denying it. *rolls eyes*

And anyway, how many teenagers see Barbie as a role model anyway? *rolls eyes* The whole boys n' phones n' skinniness n' glamour thing is, IMO, a far more dangerous thing to blatantly promote than an acceptance of teenage pregnancy.

Wal-Mart are fuckwits.

~Jess

[eturnity.livejournal.com]

when i grow up, I want to have a disproprtioned head and not be able to walk because of my frail little chewed on ankles!!!
sorry, random person being bored. *hides*