User blog:Bigrika/Monster High Dolls worse than Barbie?

Okay so my GF send me an opinion of a german ask user who said this: "was sind an diesen monster high Puppen so schlimm?

''Diese Puppen sind schlimmer als Barbies, schaut euch die Beine und Taille an. Dann wie sie geschminkt sind. Kleine Mädchen richten sich meistens nach dem womit sie aufwachsen und wollen so sein wie sie. Ihnen wird somit von klein auf gezeigt, das es normal ist so einen Körper zu haben. Später werden sie denken sie müssten auch so aussehen um schön zu sein. Selbst Psychologen sind gegen diese Puppen, das führt zu Minderwertigkeitskomplexen und Magersucht und Bulimie."''

To let you guys understand what she was saying I'll translate that for you:

"What's so bad with that Monster High Dolls?

'''They are worse than Barbie. Look at their waist and legs. Look at how they are rouged. Little girls usually comply with what they grow up with and want to be like them. So they learn that it is totally normal to have a body like this and later they will think they have to look alike to be pretty. Even psychologists are against this dolls as they lead to feel inadequate, anorexia and bulimia."'''

When I read this I felt kinda angry, because I think it is the easiest to blame games and toys for the problems of little kids and teenagers. I said to her that this is nonesense, that I know alot of girls in the ages of what that ask-user was talking about and I don't think that they suffer any of that problems because of Monster High dolls if they do suffer that problems at all.

My personal opinion is that if anything IS harmfull, then Barbie Dolls are more as they represent HUMAN, while Monster High Dolls represent FANTASY FIGURES. I don't think it is a bad thing if little girls wan't to look like them, they are making it playful and do not think of either Barbie or Monster High as a rolemodel in "beautifulness". And if they grow up to a certain age most of them will be smart enough to know that having a body like a DOLL is unrealistic. In my opinion the really bad rolemodels are celebrities who do bad things to their bodies in their beauty freny like starving slim or - even worse - performing surgery to fit in the beauty ideal createt by advertising and the model industry and NOT by some innocent toy dolls!

Now, I am asking you. What do you think about that bolted statement above?

~Rika 06:00, July 2, 2014 (UTC)