Breast Milk Baby doll on is coming to a department store near you.

[Renew Deal]

http://video.aol.com/video/breast-milk-baby-good-morning-america/2670604869

'Breast Milk Baby': Does Doll For Girls Cross Line?

A new doll that mimics the act of breast-feeding has some parents up in arms and the manufacturer defending itself against accusations of perversion.

Called "Breast Milk Baby," the doll sold through Berjuan Toys for $89 allows children to imitate the act of breast-feeding by using a special halter top that comes with the toy.

The top is made from a colorful material with two flowers positioned where nipples would be. When the doll's mouth is brought close to a sensor embedded in the flower, the baby makes motions and sounds consistent with suckling.

Critics say the doll is over-sexualizing young girls or forcing them to grow up too quickly, but the company and supporters have said the toys are meant to teach young girls about the nurturing skills they'll need later in life.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/breast-milk-baby-doll-girls/story?id=13251971

[Aerows]

1. I want to be outraged

but frankly, there are so many things to be outraged about that are larger than this, that I have outrage fatigue.

[madmax]

3. I'm with you on that.

So many outrages, so little strength.

[EOTE]

12. I'm outraged.

Over how little outrage you're displaying. What if this was a breast feeding doll that also made fried chicken with corn flakes? Would you be outraged then?

[beac]

37. Is the doll availabe for sale at the Manhattan Olive Garden?

Because, if so, THEN I am outraged.

[seabeyond]

29. i was thinkin the same.... not a pole stripper doll anyway. nt.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Breast feeding isn't sexualizing young girls...

It is indoctrinating them into the proper role of women as future mothers.

Damn, people, get a grip.

[Lyric]

4. Breastfeeding is not a "perversion".

If dolls that pee and poop are okay, this is okay too. I really don't see the big deal.

:shrug:

[FSogol]

8. What about dolls that take your favorite sweater, your Minutemen Vinyls, and don't call you back?

:cry:

[Lyric]

27. The important question is...

...did the doll have a pit bull? At Olive Garden?

'Cause that's some perverted shit right there.

:rofl:

[Codeine]

30. I dated that doll.

Still has my copy of "Double Nickels on the Dime"

[Ian David]

15. You obviously haven't seen Hasbro's, "My Coprophagic Baby." n/t

[Lyric]

19. Is it anything like Mattel's "Baby Scats-a-Lot"?

That one was a big hit with the Lowry Park Zoo monkeys, or so I hear.

[WinkyDink]

18. Where are the latter?

[Lyric]

26. I had one as a kid. "Baby Alive"

Apparently Hasbro still makes it:

http://www.hasbro.com/babyalive/en_us/demo.cfm

[texanwitch]

5. I can see other people buying this doll for other reasons.

Let kids be little kids for awhile.

[FSogol]

6. Hey, unrelated question here. Where's the nearest Applebees?

:popcorn:

[leftstreet]

10. Will you promise to pm me if they come out with a Circumcision Doll?

:popcorn:

[FSogol]

13. for Pitbulls?

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[eleny]

21. As if this thread needed any help

Okay, The Olive Garden.

[FSogol]

24. Hurrah!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. While I do not think breast feeding is a "sexual act", this is

going a bit far. Kids can learn to nurture by example, but not necessarily by having to breast feed a baby. Not every woman breast feeds their baby and are still nurturing to them. This really is a tad weird.

Though, as the first poster said...I really don't give a shit right now. The world is imploding. We have more important things to worry about. :( A doll isn't one of them.

[Dorian Gray]

35. I don't give a shit

about this doll, but i probably wouldn't buy it for my daughter, either.

[MineralMan]

9. I think that was introduced a couple of years ago.

Little sister wants to do what mom's doing with the new baby. Little sisters have always had baby dolls. They diaper them, just like mom does. It's how mom helps keep them from being jealous.

What do you find wrong or sexual about breast-feeding, I wonder?

How is breast-feeding sexual?

On edit: I was right. This was introduced in 2009, and created a stir then, too. Oh, well.

[Skidmore]

11. I'd rather that young girls learn that the original purpose of

breasts were to provide nourishment to offspring, not to be filled with silicone or bags of water for daddy. Save the outrage for the hootchie fashions for toddlers and young girls that truly do sexualize them.

[Ian David]

16. I can see your dirty pillows...

[WinkyDink]

17. It's of a piece. We are speaking of CORPORATE AMERICA here, not the NIH.

[WinkyDink]

14. Have any of you watched the video? Or seen THIS:

http://algonquin.patch.com/articles/momstalk-padded-bikini-for-pre-teens

Don't give me that "nurturing role" stuff, not when a dollar is involved.

[Ian David]

20. I have an idea. Put fangs on it and market it as a vampire doll you place on your neck. n/t

[WinkyDink]

23. OMG, seriously----that is a money-maker right there! "Baby Vampire"!

[Ian David]

25. I'm headed to Toys R Us to start turning them into vampire dolls RIGHT NOW. n/t

[gkhouston]

22. $89? You've got to be joking. Most kids would lose the halter top (or wreck

the electronics in it) within a month. I've seen little girls pretend to breast-feed with ordinary dolls and they'll learn as much "nurturing" from that as they will from this overpriced piece of crap.

[Renew Deal]

28. $89 seems way overpriced

I mean, it is unique, but this is targeted to little kids. Why should parents spend $89 on this?

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. From the time I was 3 I used to stick my baby dolls up my shirt and

pretend to nurse them. I probably would have loved this doll.

[Chris_Texas]

32. OMG PERVERT!!! Was the doll white and christian and conceived in marriage before Jesus?!

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. It was made of plastic. No way it could have been made before Jesus.

*snarf*

[Dappleganger]

41. OMG!

My sister and I used to the same thing--we thought we were really something, lol!

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. I got the idea from watching my mom nurse my baby bro. I bet we are far from being the

only girls to have ever done that. LOL (And I bet some boys have, too.)

[Dappleganger]

43. They probably have, lol!

Our mother didn't nurse us but of course we knew other moms who did and we thought it was swell.

[MilesColtrane]

33. "Critics say the doll is over-sexualizing young girls"

Critics who find something sexual in the act of a baby feeding are twisted fucks.

I just hope the doll doesn't come with a My Olive Garden™ playset.

[Evolve_Already]

34. Say What?!

"... but the company and supporters have said the toys are meant to teach young girls about the nurturing skills they'll need later in life."

Where is the Kondom Ken doll?

[wickerwoman]

44. LOL

:toast:

[HappyMe]

36. I don't give a crap.

It's kind of creepy. :shrug:

[FedUpWithIt All]

39. Non issue here.

Personally, i think the world has much bigger issues it could concern itself with just now. :shrug:

[shanti]

40. i used to have a pattern

for a stuffed doll that held a nursing baby. the baby's mouth was velcro, as was the mom doll's breast. i never had any girls to give the doll to though :(. i just saw this same doll on ebay, so somebody still thinks it's a good idea.