If you wanted one more sign we’re spiraling down the cultural toilet, here it is: Tattoo Barbie.
SKY News is reporting:
The new “Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie” comes with a set of body art stickers to be placed anywhere on her body.
The set also comes with a tattoo gun so kids can stamp designs on themselves.
Manufacturer Mattel says the tattoos for children are temporary and wash off.
But some parents believe the toy is not appropriate for young children and would not buy the doll.
Ya’ think?
Has Mattel lost its mind? CMR can only extrapolate what’s coming next:
2010 – Tramp stamp Barbie? Comes with free contraception, a “Free Clinic” doctor’s office where Barbie can get her pretend gonorrhea shot from an inflatable hypodermic needle. Recommended for children ages 3 and up.
2011 – Correctional Facility Barbie. With digestible pouch for smuggling drug contraband. Shank not included.
2012 – Daytime Hooker Barbie – (Also known as Bratz) Pimp not included. Pull her string and she says, “That’ll cost ya’ extra, honey” and “Not on the lips baby.”
March 6, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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March 6, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Eegahinc – You’re right, I’m not going to follow the link. I might end up seeing my evil twin sister, and I don’t want to deal with that right now.
March 6, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I wish someone would have told me you can’t be Catholic and have tattoos before I converted!
March 6, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Nobody said that. Don’t be sensitive. They’re mocking them for marketing tattoos for children on Barbies.
March 6, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Be not afraid, Katie! Just in case your comment wasn’t tongue-in-cheek, the Church, to my knowledge (this site’s author may know more than me), has no catch-all prohibition on tattoos. It only asks that you consider any possible risks to bodily health or integrity, and that you don’t choose a design or placement which explicitly OR implicitly conveys a message in opposition of Christian teaching.
Tramp Stamp Barbie, in my unasked for opinion, doesn’t make the cut under those rules. Pretty Butterfly on the Shoulder Barbie probably wouldn’t raise any eyebrows unless you believe it might act as a sort of “gateway drug” to nastier things in the current cultural climate.
Anyway, who asked me? I’ll stop now.
March 7, 2009 at 8:00 am
there has already been a tattoo barbie a few years back – a generation girl barbie with a nose ring – a barbie in a wheelchair – there was also an astronaut, doctor, store clerk, police officer, veterinarian, baby sitter, military service person, chef, paleontologist, princess, rock band singer, zoologist – what’s the problem??????