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Hey, why not?    When I was a kid I had one of those dolls that ate plastic food and pooped it out again.  Only doll I ever had that I thought was worth a dang, because it actually did something instead of just sitting there being hard and cold and smelling weird.  It was great until I fed it real food.  It disappeared shortly thereafter.

Personal Opinion.....

I would not want my young granddaughter to have such a doll.  Children are exposed to much too much so early.  And they already do such a thing with regular dolls.  But to have one that acts like a suckling baby.  Please.....

An old fashion Grandma,
Janet

That's disgusting.

I once had a baby doll that could tinkle on the toilet and actually show the yellow of the p*** in the pot. i didn't ask for it. 

There's nothing wrong with it, parent's don't have to buy it.  I mean saying there's something wrong with the doll itself is like saying that something is wrong with the book American Psycho (or Wetlands or whatever extreme book you want to think of) just because some parent could possibly buy it for their kid.  People make up crazy obscene and useless things all the time.  The magic of capitalism is that you really DON'T have to buy all of it!

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Quote from: heatherrose on August 24, 2009, 02:27:20 AM

I agree anything, that can be produced, to be used for any purpose,
should be available to anyone, at any time.

As well, any behavior should be allowed anywhere, at any time.

That's the big illusion of society, that things aren't *allowed*.  If something can be done, someone will do it.  The question is whether you have to run from angry people with sticks or not.

I really don't think that over sexualizing of our children is a good thing. OK babies are nice and they suckle etc, but does a five year old really need to put that into the equation? Why not letting her grow up and have girl fun. I hate the trend at the moment for really young girls to wear very sexy clothes, just because the Pussycat trolls etc  do so in video clips. Pink put it well in her song, whose title I have forgotten

I suppose on of the new generation dolls can be the "Little Wanker" teach your baby boy not to play with his thing in public. This is a good learning lesson for all young Mums. Or the breast feeding doll that bites, "You can get use to teething baby".

I'm with Janet.
No

Cindy

What on earth!?!

A baby doll that breastfeeds... strange..

Jay

Oh geez O_o. I don't think I'd let my kid use that. But by the time I'm old enough to even have kids who knows what kinda dolls they'll have out then

~Vincent

Honestly, I don't see what the big deal is.

More expensive gadgety garbage for kids. I don't see how it's any bigger deal than the other (kind of creepy) bodily-functional dolls.

I don't know what the big deal is. It is just breastfeeding.  I don't know how you equate that with sexualising children either Cindy   Shouldn't kids be exposed to things that matter - like how babies are feed and cared for? I say that is good parenting. It's not like you would force them to put this suckling baby to their chest.

My daughter (2.5yrs) likes to pretend to breastfeed with her dolls and push them around in a pram and put napies on them, cuddles, kisses and does it all on her own whim. She also likes to run, skip, jump, climb, slide. Seems pretty normal to me. I think she would like this doll, plus she could put bottles and other things in its mouth too. That would be fun!

I must be even more old fashioned that Cindy or Janet. Breastfeeding is just a normal part of life and kids like to emulate. I think a lot of people's attitude to breastfeeding is weird, which is probably where a lot of these objections are coming from. There is nothing perverted about a woman getting her tit out in public to feed her hungry baby and nothing perverted about a kid wanting to pretend they are doing it too. Just part of life and learning.

I know of some women who have miss carried.

Many of them belong to a doll baby group that meets regularly and cares for their dolls like real babies.

I wonder if this doll could help some of them deal 

I overheard them talking about wanting to breast feed

Maybe I was being a bit fuddy duddy. Sometimes this new fangled technology is just too much for us oldies


Cindy

If breast feeding is 'sexualization' you got some real problems going on there. I always thought it was natural, and like all natural things, kind of messy.

I agree with Janet on that one.  I have four daughters and thank goodness that type of doll was not around when they were young!

Seriously.. I don't understand what's so wrong/bad about it.
I really don't.

Can someone explain what it is?

Its a big flap over nothing.  Breast feeding is a natural thing and most of the girls who want that doll have probably seen their mothers breast feeding their younger sibling. 

Its a fad, if it doesn't sell it will disappear.

Sarah L.

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