Perlease.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-62577192

[Togo]

//I feel sorry for the poor, put-upon kids who'll end up having this crapola forced on them. Suffer the poor little children.//

It is more work from the psychological nudge teams from the Ministry of Wishful Thinking. After the blurring of gender awareness they now want to encourage, not only the acceptance, but the positive benefits of being disabled or injured. "Please mummy can I have a leg removed"?

[youngmafbog]

Sorry, I still dont understand.

[sp1814]

FatticusInch

It's film quote (from There Will Be Blood).

Got it slightly wrong. It's milkshake rather than milk.

[douglas9401]

"what on earth have the Tories got to do with Mattel?"

Apart from being an assorment of oddly-shaped, unthinking plasic replicas of human beings you mean?

[jno]

you may well be right, ymb; but I don't think they'll be expecting a huge uptake; the dolls are just there for anyone who thinks their child might like one. And collectors and completists.

Who bought this one?
https://tinyurl.com/bdh5efdw
Probably not many, but enough to encourage them to update their lines frequently.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

//I feel sorry for the poor, put-upon kids who'll end up having this crapola forced on them. Suffer the poor little children.//

Don't hope think it's far more likely that parents of children who are disabled in some way will be buying these?

Like - how many white girls do you see with black Barbies? There may be a few, but it's way more likely to see little black girls with them.

This isn't about force - it's about choice.

[Spicerack]

Whatever, it led to a rarebit of civility, SP.

[douglas9401]

That reminds me, my barbie needs a right good scrub after the weekend.
I'll do it today as there's burger all going on here, not a sausage.

[sp1814]

Spicerack

Huh?

Are you talking about cheese on toast???

[DTCwordfan]

How about a TTT Ken - or it would be so ugly that it would be unmarketable?

[FatticusInch]

sp1814
//Spicerack

Huh?

Are you talking about cheese on toast???//

What a crock, Monsieur!

[youngmafbog]

SP, why did you write that at me, I didnt say that at all - even if you wish I had.

In fact as the parent of a disabled child I put a point over.

I have not anywhere said it shouldnt happen, just trying to have a grown up conversation and then you launch into me with something I havent said - again.

[Spicerack]

Yes. Didn't you notice fatticus's puns. Worcester than mine, believe it or not.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

Sorry - eyes aren't working properly this afternoon.

[Peter Pedant]

// I thought he was asking somebody to perlease buy him one, pasta//
and then he can stab it with a pair of mathematical compasses before French grammar at fwee !

I dont expect this to last very long

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the only reason anyone objects to this is that it is perceived as being vaguely "left wing" and that's enough to set some people off