What? You still think that Barbie is sending bad messages to young girls? Compared to Mattel's new Monster High doll, Barbie looks like a dowdy librarian:
Clawdeen Wolf comes complete with a thigh-skimming skirt, sky high boots and heavy makeup, and spends her days “waxing, plucking and shaving.”
“My hair is worthy of a shampoo commercial, and that’s just what grows on my legs. Plucking and shaving is definitely a full-time job but that’s a small price to pay for being scarily fabulous,” reads the character description of the teen werewolf doll, who also lists her favorite hobby as “flirting with boys.”
But the most frightful thing about Clawdeen, experts say, is the shocking impact she could have on girls aged 6 and up -- the very demographic Mattel is targeting.
Hollie McKay of Fox writes: Link
"My hair is worthy of a shampoo commercial, and that’s just what grows on my legs" - if I were a 6 year old, I wouldn't want to buy this doll. Too hairy.
That said, wtf are these doll companies thinking. Ridiculous proportions, skanky clothing... really?
Hey, I grew up on 1970s and early 1980s Playboy so I'm in that group that still thinks its normal for women to have pubes.
This is all the sluttiness of Brats meeting the sheer vapidness of Twilight.
Didn't say there was anything abnormal about pubes, but I draw the line when it starts to creep up stomachs and down thighs, which I imagine it would on a werewolf.
Besides I subscribe to the "Fuck shaving, I'm lazy and no one's looking" creed.
I remember the disappointment that Barbie brought, and the ridiculousness of Bratz, and with Monster High's message of taking pride in what makes you an individual I can safely say it is the best of the three doll lines.