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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Barbie Bashing

Some "researchers" at the University of Bath are upset over the fact that many kids like to tear up their toys:

"Whilst for an adult the delight the child felt in breaking, mutilating and torturing their dolls is deeply disturbing..."

Only if you're a hand-wringing academic ideologue who finds psychological bogeymen in every breath and step. Everyone else realizes it's perfectly normal. I mean, I did all sorts of nasty things to those plastic army men when I was a kid, and look how I turned out...


Okay, bad example.

But you get my point.

posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:24

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

there is nothing wrong with tearing up dolls. I'm a 37 year old man and still do it while wearing makeup and my pretty lavender dress. Of course the amryl nitrate helps me come down from my doll destroying jag. No more wire hangers. NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!!

13:10  
Blogger Fundy said...

I must really be screwed; I as a young lad took a brick to a Tonka toy dump truck (not one of the new an improved plastic ones) and smashed it to oblivion. I guess now someone will be coming by with my new winter coat and haul me away. You know the one were you hug yourself and it has the nice shiny buckles in the back.

15:29  

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