New Doll That Teaches How To Breast Feed Causing Controversy

[July16th-20th]

Source: CBS News

NEW YORK – A new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed.

The doll is made by Berjuan Toys, a company out of Spain. It comes with a special halter top that has two flowers where nipples would be. When a little girl puts on the top and holds the baby doll up the flowers, it makes suckling sounds. The company says the doll is a top-selling toy in Europe and on its website, says the toy ”lets young girls express their love and affection in the most natural way possible, just like mommy!”

But the toy has many parents asking if it’s going too far.

“I think that it’s totally bizarre to teach a prepubescent child how to breastfeed,” said Nicole from Manhattan. “Quite strange.”

“I think it’s very creepy,” said one woman. “I don’t think little kids should be breastfeeding.”

“I don’t approve of it at all. I think it’s ridiculous for a child. Let her learn it when she’s older,” said another woman.


Read more: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/07/16/new-doll-that-teaches-how-to-breast-feed-causing-controversy/

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Well...at least it's not emphasizing sex, like way too many products for little girls do. Yes, having (and breastfeeding) a baby is obviously a result of sexual activity, but, given the increasingly-overt efforts to "slut up" females at the earliest possible age, this is relatively harmless in comparison.

[Ilsa]

1. It's unusual, but at least it is teaching a nurturing

attitude compared to Barbie when shes dressed to go clubbing.

[izquierdista]

2. For little girls who don't go to Olive Garden?

How else are they supposed to learn? :shrug:

[66 dmhlt]

3. I'm clearly out of the loop, 'cause I don't get the Olive Garden reference

[izquierdista]

16. Here

http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/08/19/breastfeeding-mother-asked-to-leave-olive-garden/

[ehrnst]

4. In other cultures, this is done. Cultures where breasts aren't used to sell beer and cars.

In our culture breasts are reserved for men's sexual use, so seeing a young girl pretending to have them for another purpose is disturbing.

Just like seeing breastfeeding (even discrete breastfeeding) is for many people.

[primavera]

9. +1 n/t

[snooper2]

14. Yeah, in Russia and Spain and France and India and Norway and and and

They NEVER use hot young thangs to advertise :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

They show commericals in Norway that would make the prudes in America completely flip :rofl:



People crack me up

[ehrnst]

24. What does this have to do with my post? Did you post it in the wrong place? (nt)

[snooper2]

25. So America is the only place where hot women are used to sell beer and cars

that's your premise right...

Only American men think breasts exist for their pleasure only?

[noiretextatique]

26. the poster never made that claim

the poster did claim that some cultures teach breastfeeding. american is clearly not the only sexist, objectifying, fucked up culture.

[canoeist52]

5. It's just a toy product. No one is forcing anyone to buy it.

Parents are in control here, right?

[rucky]

6. They make dolls that drink from bottles.

kids gotta eat

[AlbertCat]

13. They make dolls that drink from bottles.

Do they still make them that pee?


Everybody gets their pets spayed and neutered (I hope...and no I'm not Bob Barker!) But kids on farms in the heartland still see animals feeding their young, don't they? Doesn't everyone remember seeing puppies or kittens feeding?

Why are people afraid for their kids to learn about life?

[jmowreader]

28. The breastfeeding doll sounds more logical than the bottle fed one

Isn't breastfeeding supposed to be the preferred way to go?

[HopeHoops]

7. Our older daughters pretended to breast feed their dolls (and other assorted stuffed creatures)

All they were doing was mimicking what my wife was doing. They've got baby dolls that drink and pee. Breast feeding is (almost always) the best means of providing the optimal nutrition to a child. It is a natural function and should be promoted, but hey, we live in a "tits sell shit" society so unless you're marketing to guys who like cheap beer, chicken wings, and endless stupid sports programs, it HAS to be wrong.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. I used to stuff my baby dolls up my shirt, emulating my mother who was

nursing my lil bro at the time. Perfectly natural.

[Brickbat]

8. Frankly, I think the number of dolls that seem to be sold by people fixated on elimination is

weirder. I love the idea of a breastfeeding doll. Both my son and my daughter pretended to nurse their dolls. And guess what? They grew up well-adjusted and -- shocking -- nurturing.

[TheMadMonk]

10. This is at least the fifth time this doll has managed to cause controversy.

All the way back to 2009. As breathlessly reported here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6244700

and here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6248742

and here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4924825

and here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x774696

and here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x831879


Doctor to young girl as he places the stethoscope to her chest. "Big breaths."

Reply: "Yeth, and I'm only thirteen"

[Taverner]

11. Maybe I've just got the mind of an old hippie, but what's the problem?

Then again, I don't find breastfeeding to be some huge, controversial act.

:shrug:

[Iggo]

18. Because boobies.

Duh.

[ehrnst]

12. There is thong underwear and club clothing for 7 year olds. THAT should be controversial.

Not breastfeeding.

[davsand]

15. Exactly! Sexualizing little girls is way more problematic, in my opinion.

Tiny Lolitas are just creepy. Personally, I am WAY more offended at finding thong underwear and see-thru shirts in a size 6X. Needless to say, I did not buy them for my daughter when she was that small, and I do not buy them for her now that she's 14 years old and wearing small women's sizes. I call it "age appropriate" clothing.




Laura

[bemildred]

17. More anxiety causing droool from our media overlords. nt

[ensho]

19. hosp. maternity wards used to have a nurse(s) trained in breast

feeding.

to help the new mother and child.

wonder if they still do?

[apnu]

23. They do, my wife and called them "nipple nazis" because they were agressive.

Then because our kid had some small problems latching right away a nurse took him under the guise of measurements and force fed him a bottle wich we were strongly opposed to. Needless to say we freaked out on that nurse and were more tolerant of the nipple nazis after that, but still they were very agressive about it. He latched a few hours after being stolen away and was fine. What was odd was we, the first time parents, were more calm about it than the nurses. We figured he'd latch in his own time and his weight drop wasn't off the charts, at that point, but the hospital really intense out about it.

[digitaln3rd]

20. Plenty of children know about it if they have a sibling, anyway.

They're bound to see their mother doing it and start to ask questions.

For all those people quoted in the article, why not discuss it with their children rather then sensor something by blocking their ears and pretending it doesn't exist.

[hedgehog]

21. What about all those little boys who will grow up and unbutton

blouses expecting to find flowers?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

[jmowreader]

29. Some of us do...

[bananas]

27. Oh, it's a doll of the baby, not a doll of the mother.

I thought it would be a life-size doll of a mother.
That would be controversial!