to think this is creepy

[adrenalinejunkie]

i was having a look around a toy shop for something for ds and wandered into the dolls section (i still have a soft spot for barbies collectible ones but still)
and i came across a baby born (or some such) set it had a boy baby doll and a girl baby doll dressed up as a bride and groom, i found it very weird tbh ,is it just me?

Kaloki - my ken was a control freak who used to slap my barbie about and sleep around. My barbie just let him walk all over her.

My sister's Ken was a pushover meek and mild, gentle.. Her barbie was a feisty thing who ruled the roost.

The really odd thing is who we married!

My sister's husband is a gentle soul and my sister - well! what she says goes! her way or the highway.

Me? well, Himself has NEVER laid a finger on me and never ever would. Never even shouted at me in 13 years together. But there is def the control thing. A 'me tarzan you jane' vibe. And I have taken a large amount of shit over the years.

I think that's so strange!

erm. I'm confused, Pixie. Practically nobody on the thread agrees with the OP. It seems like you think we do.

I think the breastfeeding doll is a sweet idea, but dolls are inherently evil so that point alone puts me off.

NurseSunshine - in fact DD has an old Barbie of mine but she has never wanted to play with dolls. You can probably blame that on my influence too - I have never encouraged pretend housework, marraige, babies or any other traditional female role. But that's another subject entirely.

Callisto - do you remember the tv series Maelstrom? Gave me the heebie-jeebies, that did!

Still trying to get my head around the baby obstetrician

im surprised that nobody agrees with me , but i do appreciate everyones point of view.
I was a complete tomboy when i was young and never really had many dolls , my brother and i were the only small children in our family and i think that could be why i have missed out on the whole obstetrician/horse rider /scooter doll thing .However i do still think that the idea of babydolls getting married being husband and wife is a little bit weird .

yanbu
imo the whole point of a doll that looks like a baby, is that it is a pretend baby.
if you want a bride you buy a barbie

im glad someone agrees with me twoshoes , i understand children like to roleplay but that doesnt mean i would like the idea of a baby doll holding a can of beer or wearing high heels .

the whole point of a baby doll is it is a baby....

Unless you are a child 2shoes. None of my toys ended up as what they were meant to be. Now I know I was odd, but I wasn't that odd that no other kids did/do that.

Icky and YANBU. A recent National Geographic has an article on women and girls in Afghanistan with photos of skinny little prepubescent girls done up with hairdos and makeup and glam dresses to attend a relative's wedding. Really sick. What you saw is much the same imo.

My toys were also never what they were 'supposed' to be.

Where's the imagination in that?

mathanxiety I'm not sure what the comparison is?

HecateQueenofWitches - your post with all the links has opened my eyes to a whole world of doll weirdness!!!!

Having lived in an all blue house for 6 years, now that DD1 is here I hadn't really engaged with the idea of dolls yet, but assumed that they probably were like babies, with bottles and prams etc.

I had no idea that there was a world out there that contained baby obstetricians and scooter chicks. Oh lord, I think I may need to go and play with my DS Ben10 set to rebalance my world view!!!!

ooh, oooh, if you really want to mess with your child mix it up. Have the baby obstetrician deliver this guy

it's only a doll, they could be baby bridesmais and page boy

I think they're both 'creepy' as the OP put it. I think the creepiness lies in seeing baby dolls or little girls playing roles of adults. The Afghan thing is far more creepy though, imo.

Although having said that, in my house, dolls seem to lose every stitch of clothing within 5 minutes of crossing the threshold, never to be dressed again. We have the clothes in a doll trunk.

Fucking hate dolls, Baby Annabelle has left me scarred for life after it turned its head and starting talking to me when I was babysitting my niece, I grabbed it out of the toybox and chucked it in the washing machine

Sil thought it was hilarious, she'd delibrately placed it there, knowing of my fear, having ribbed me for years about me only allowing dd and ds to have rag doll type dolls

I had an experience like that Twas late one night and I heard this voice out of the blue. I honestly thought it was the cat. Sounded exactly like the voice a cat would have if a cat suddenly decided to strike up a conversation...

When I was younger one of my friends was going out with a guy whose mum owned porcelain dolls; they adorned every spare inch of space in his home.

I was stuck their one day while he and his friends were getting stoned, being a sweet little girl I never suggested to the stoned and paranoid boys that the dolls were moving when they weren't looking.. honest

Wrt to baby dolls or girls playing roles of adults, I think it's quite normal for young girls to want to play at being adults. I know most games between my cousins and me revolved around us playing at adult roles. As for the baby dolls, I had a talking elephant, pretending a baby doll is an older doll is a smaller leap.

I don't think it's creepy. Children learn how to be adults by watching and copying mummy and daddy.

I agree about the breastfeeding doll that it's good to encourage breastfeeding as the norm but I still didn't like it (and not because I'm sexualising the act of breastfeeding or anything). But then, I was a complete tomboy as a child and would rather be fishing than playing with dolls so maybe I just don't understand.

yeah, it;s creepy

I don't think there is anything creepy about children playing at being adults.

This happens in much of the animal kingdom. Take cats, for example. Their play is all about learning how to be independant adults - the skills they will need to survive. You see this same thing in species after species.

When you realise that, you realise what this type of play actually ^is, then you see tthat far from being 'creepy', it is actually developmentally essential.