Bratz

all genders want to play with their “gender specific” toys, and it causes a confusion in children. Children don’t always want to play with the toys that were made for their gender. Growing up, I started off playing with basic girl toys; Barbie, Bratz, My Little Pony, ect. However, as I started to get a little older, I found myself drawn to more boy…

the three main characteristics; longevity, attraction (how popular), and the impact left on society. Barbie deserves to be in the charter round of inductees for the Pop Culture Icon Museum because let’s face it, who else can compete with Barbie? The Bratz Dolls, Polly Pockets, and the American Girl Dolls have all tried but they proved unsuccessful and fizzled out within a couple of years. It is now 2016 and Barbie dolls are still being bought left and right. She has proved that she can…

I’d visited Lewes once before. Bonfire Night, 2002, aged 4, ears stuffed with cotton wool and potential pyromania growing within. From that, one can understand my intrigue when it was described as “a genteel town” by David James Smith for The Sunday Times - quite the opposite to how I’d perceived it! I had to see it to believe it. I travelled by bus from the nearby city of Brighton and Hove, to enter Lewes like a local. Trying to look sophisticated, in the sea of briefcase gripping…

I dropped my beautiful Bratz doll on the dirty street and laughed the hardest laugh I had ever experienced. My stomach felt like it was in the process of disappearing as I landed on my knees and I laughed. I began to wonder if I was going to die because I could not breathe. Tears…

The thought of oneself is a big factor in today’s society which leads individuals to make decisions that can affect them drastically. With the ability to alter their body, celebrities who serve as a constant ideal, and peer pressure from school or work, it’s hard not to experience a bit of body image thoughts. Today, efforts made by self-conscious children, teens, and adults to copy the unrealistic standards of celebrities or television personalities, are increasing and changing many…

kids are getting older younger” (George 3) The media has clung to this concept marketing adult concepts to children believing that is what they’d like. Toys have changed from Cabbage Patch Kids, a pudgy baby like doll to the newer line of doll called Bratz, a disproportionate, done up doll. Problems are arising everywhere with the marketing mindset “kids are getting, older…

On Saturday, February 4th, 2006, I invited my closest friends over to watch movies, eat too much cake, and force them to listen as I relentlessly bragged about my newest Bratz or Barbie dolls. In order to cope with the herd of pre-teens rampaging throughout their home, my father and step-mother invited some of their friends over, as well. The party officially started when I ecstatically tore the wrapping off of my brand-new…

There is no doubt that Gender Socialization starts as early as our childhood years. I went to the toy department at Walmart and was really shocked. I had never realized how segregated these toys were. The toys are separated by gender, they tell us about defining masculinity and femininity, and it impacts how children understand what it means to be a girl or a boy. In the Toy department at Walmart, it is really obvious which toys are for girls and which toys are for boys. The toys are separated,…

Children play with dolls, for example, barbie’s and bratz. Barbie’s are these tall, small waisted, pretty faced dolls. Bratz are these tall, skinny, big eyed, big lips, fashionable dolls. Young girls are playing with these dolls and wanting to look like them.”5 Reasons NOT to Buy Barbie for Little Girls”, this article explains how barbie…

acting career in 1996 by portraying Young Cosette in Les Misérables, starting with the U.S. national tour and later moving to the Broadway show. She later made cameo appearances in other television series until achieving her breakout role as Jade in Bratz (2007). Three years later, she landed her most prominent part as Mona Vanderwaal in Pretty Little Liars (2010). Parrish received four Teen Choice Awards for her work during the series'…