Are these dolls totally inappropriate?

[Itsbeen84yearss]

Just seen the ad for these on channel 5 (in between peppa episodes). Marketed as ‘opposites’? I might be being bad minded but these look highly sexualised to me. I bought my dd an lol doll once but I think it had a school uniform on. Didn’t look like these at all. Why are they like this now?? Surely it’s sending all sorts of bad messages to kids

@5128gap

Fetish wear? That made me laugh. And what child of the age to be playing with these dolls would know what a fetish was? To a child its a doll in red trousers and a matching jacket. Neither doll looks remotely 'sexy' in those clothes. Again, with the horror of a doll in fishnets. Why on earth would your children associate fishnets with sex? My DD would have thought they were ballet tights. And fishnets are very fashionable.

This.

Your daughter would confuse fishnets with ballet tights?

A small child wouldn't think of the costume as being fetish wear, but the adults who design and market these dolls definitely do. It really makes me wonder why an adult would want to produce these dolls for little girls?

We have an overflowing dressing up box pirate

Really? Because that is discusting. Pirates were (are) murderous criminals and should not be glamourised.

@GreyhoundG1rl

Your daughter would confuse fishnets with ballet tights?

She wouldn't confuse them no, she would relate them to the context in which she knew them. She wore them for ballet, when performing in shows, and for character and Irish dance too. Not a new thing. Check our ballerina Sindy.

Its normalising the fetishisation of children. Teens won’t buy these. Tweet Argos who sell them.

@Iusedtoliveinsanfrancisco

Its normalising the fetishisation of children. Teens won’t buy these. Tweet Argos who sell them.

But the dolls aren't supposed to be children.

What I mean is so the dolls are not children being fetishised, they are supposed to represent celebrities. Which is another issue.

I do think the Tree Change dolls look so much nicer afterwards.