to wonder why people dislike Hello Kitty?

[Rollon2012]

I have a slight obsession , (yes I am a grown woman

I means its a cute cat? what am I missing some people hatred is so passionate i'm wondering what its done lol.

It's ok but it's far too pink, girly and twee for me.

i dislike many other things....ITNG, peppa pig, ben & holly little kingdon....but sadly my DD is intrested in them all so that all i hear about now.

a few weeks ago she wasn't talking at all and crying contantaly....to being a total chatter box about these programmes and other things

My DD has a Hello Kitty dress from H&M that is green. A nice, luscious dark green and HK, whilst being quite large, is ok and she has a rangoli type hair thing.

I quite like it.

Other than that, I hate HK.

It's okay. It's just a bit boring. I don't like having twenty million of any one thing/image, I don't want to look at the same stuff all the time.

because it's everybloodywhere!!

I think its very cute I love kewaii type japanese images everything just looks awesome.
I think I need some rehab

I heart Hello Kitty too

The original programme was fine - typical teaching young kids how to do X in the world. Follow up show was crazier, but no worse than Pingu. Most of the programmes done by the original company fall into one of those two categories.

The problem is that the makers have licensed it - a lot. You can practically find a Hello Kitty version of anything. The overcommerialisation - or maybe just the the fact it is absolutely everywhere and on everything - makes it very frustrating and annoying. See Hello Kitty Hell for the insites from a man with a partner who is obsessed and ou'll find everything from bizarre Hello Kitty Toys to Hello Kitty guns and tazers...and vibrators.

She/it doesn't actually do anything, yet is ubiquitous.

In fact, now you ask, it's exactly because she/it doesn't do anything.

It's hard to imagine a boy icon which was completely inactive and just to me looked at.

Sorry, just to be looked at.

Have you seen the liberty hello kitty fabrics?

Hello kitty is the one cute little girly thing 10 year old DD2 will still tolerate so I don't mind her.
Otherwise DD2 is a bit prone to choosing a rather rock chick look which is a bit inappropriate.
Anyway I want to steal her HK fleece dressing gown, it looks so cosy.

Hello Kitty is cute!

People who don't like it are boring snobs.

For some reasons it sends the wrong vibes to me. I think its partly that it reminds me a bit of the playboy bunny, and the other is that it autotranslates in my head to Sean Connory saying 'Hello, Pooosy' to Honor Blackman

Am rather remiss in indulging 5 yr old dd's longing for pink... in the same way that Playboy, Bratz & LelliKelly will never darken my door, is there any sinister reason why Hello Kitty should be avoided? What obvious connotation am I missing?

I hate the stuff, it looks cheap and tacky. It is everywhere too! YANBU to wonder why it's disliked.

Yes I am a boring snob.

It's great - bought a nice hoodie in Livorno over a year ago. Washes well and still going strong.

hello kitty is ok, it is a versitile alternative to Disney princess. I know what I would rather my dd interested in. dd is 5 and she loves hello kitty and moshi monsters and wheres wally. her bedroom and wardrobe is a beautifull eclectic mix of everything other than princesses. its great.

I used to have to get Hello Kitty stuff shipped here from Japan when I first started liking the stuff. It is everywhere now though, but my kids don't care.

In Asia it is seen as something that only very girly naive females are into. I have to say, growing up there, I was friends with anything but! So I remember when my Singaporean ex secondary school classmate said eek when she saw a hello kitty dvd in my dvd cupboard which i bought for dd1 - I know, motherhood changes people, it really does. Anyways it doesn't get watched a lot these days as dd1 outgrew it and dd2 who's 5 detests hello kitty and instead loves Tim Burton films... Its all very strange. So I'm going to sell that hello kitty dvd.. Unless 3yr old ds likes it...

yes I suppose you are right tiger there is nothing less pretentious than Tim Burton. I dont think tim is any less comercial than HK.