In her heyday, the Barbie doll was been considered controversial and threatened to upset the Apple Cart of society. A female who wanted to be a doctor or a (gasp!) astronaut? Then who would be barefoot and pregnant in the household?
Society, and the dolls it expects little girls to play with, have changed.
Meet The Breast Milk Baby Doll manufactured by Berjuan Toys and available in Europe for the past two years, which actually explains quite a bit if you think about it. The Breast Milk Baby Doll comes with a special halter top with two flowers positioned where nipples would be. When the mouth of the doll is brought close to a sensor embedded in the flower, the baby motions and makes suckling sounds.
The only thing missing is the acessory pack with a carton of smokes, Red Bull, and season one of MTV’s Teen Mom!
This little gem will be flying off store shelves in the United States in just a few weeks.
Or maybe not.
Do you find this disturbing? You should!
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I am not a prude by any means but even I find this doll disturbing. They should just stick to the dolls that allows little girls to feed with a toy bottle. Imitating breast feeding truly does cross the line in my opinion!
Mine as well!
Oh for heaven’s sake! Something has been lost in translation!!
Absolutely!
Not cool, toy industry. Not cool.
You’re absolutely right – not cool.
OMG! This is so disturbing. Great way to make our children grow up faster and want nothing more then to become a mother. I can’t belive this idiot stupid doll is on the shelves. Im disgusted!!! Soooo wrong in every way possible. How is this teaching young girls anything???
I guarantee no one in this company is giving much thought to educating little girls.
BTW…I think being a mother or father is the hardest and best job in the world, it’s just not something society should be teaching young girls. The image on the box is disgusting, oh god. I must disconnect from the internet now and eat some nutella to calm my nerves.
Why don’t they make a how to put on a condom doll? Now that’s education!
Uh, yeah, I guess so.
I think they need to stop handing out medical-grade marijuana before these toy company brainstorming sessions.
Holy Crap! Does anyone else find it disturbing that the doll has a little flower on its chest too?
The whole thing is disturbing.
MAD disturbing!!! what ever happened to “let a kid be a kid” ??? i hate this…cant they just be dolls!!! and let the kids decide what to do with them…the 90s were awesome and simple… for me anyway lol
We all remember our childhood selectively. And no, they can’t leave well enough alone – not while there’s money to be made.
This is just creepy!
Wasn’t there a pregnant doll on the market a few years ago?
The world in which we live.
It’s a hell of a world, isn’t it?