Iraqi dolls
This is a little different but has to be brought up. While I was working the other day I had the news playing in the background. I heard talk about a doll manufacturer who had jumped right on the bandwagon after the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and built a special doll. Now I didn't catch enough of it to know if this doll was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or based on someone else and that part doesn't really matter. What mattered was that this doll was horrid! It was a two sided doll. One side was normal and the other side depicted the character after death, blood, brains, gore and all. It was pretty disgusting. Now hopefully anyone buying this doll is just buying it for themselves and locking it away for safekeeping or investment purposes. What I don't get, and what applies to this blog is the fact that people aren't in an uproar over the doll. There has been so much talk this past decade or two about protecting our kids from these types of images. We aren't supposed to buy toy guns even though kids have played cops and robbers and cowboys and indians forever. Now suddenly guns are a bad toy. We shouldn't buy army action figures because it promotes violence, we shouldn't encourage or let them watch wrestling. We don't even know which movies they should be allowed to watch unless the industry puts a pg or g label on them. All of these things we can and can't do and all of these things we should and shouldn't do but not one word has been said about these dolls? I tried to find a picture of this doll to post here for you but so far I haven't been able to find it again. I will keep looking and post it as soon as I find it! Powered By Qumana |
posted by Connie at 7:26 AM
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