Paper doll

foundation, a doll house is a mere set in a world created for fantasy. A tool for the creative mind to act out their imaginations. A tool used by children to pass the simple boredom of everyday life. A tool for adults to remain in the nostalgia of happiness before it is all torn apart. A tool that both helps ease the suffering of a hardened facade, and a puts a knife in the users back while cutting the strings between realism, and the unrealistic fantasy that we idolize. The pleasing nature of…

blinded by sensibility, as most adults are. Sabel, being young, sees the trouble head on and directly, but she is too young to know how terribly wrong it is that a doll moves and talks and… murders. In the end, her dad, who is war-wise and intuition is more in tune than most, knows that Sabel is telling the truth and he deals with the doll the way he think is best…but at the same time, he underestimates it. Sabel knows this, she is more wise to the world and its evils now. What is her last…

Elizabeth Frances was born in a two-story white clapboard house in the modest town of McLouth, Kansas, to Clara Belle and Allen Elzaver in 1914. Their house has stood, mostly unchanged for the last hundred years on a street that bears the name of a family member. In fact, most of the older streets in McLouth bear the names of their family members. Clara Belle carefully chose the name Elizabeth Frances for her newborn, but when her doctor finally sat down a few days later to fill out the birth…

Within the field of Social Psychology, the most agreed upon age at which children form and begin to follow cultural stereotypes is age five (Psychology Today). Mattel Inc., the company that owns Barbie, starts marketing their dolls to children ages three and up. As more than a doll, as a role model and a representation of the ideal woman, Barbie’s form, perceived values, and lack of authenticity create a complicated paradox between celebrating diversity, perpetuating colonialism, and sexualizing…

superheroes, and guns. This promotes for young boys that they have to be fierce, hard workers, fighter, strong and intelligent. However, for the girls it is the complete opposite. The toys for girls such as the beautiful Barbies, princess dolls, and baby dolls gives off the message that girls are meant to be homemakers, mothers, beautiful, soft, gentle, nurturing, and perfect. This incredible difference and promotion of what is “girl” and what is “boy” creates a division of the…

With the haunted doll, people are creeped out. The camera angles made it seem like it really was the doll who was doing all of the bad acts to the girl. But people get used to that idea, and by the end of the movie they are just expecting an exorcism on the ghost or a similar action. By having the guy jump out in a fit of rage, it shocks everyone. To make matters more terrifying, he is wearing a mask that looks like the dolls face. This scene provides an interesting twist…

In Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, “A Doll’s House”, the main character, Nora, displays a lack of interest to her children. The gap between Nora and a real mother is made when the two is compared and contrasted. To begin with, a mother’s top priority should be their young, otherwise it makes children less important than money and jobs. Even a cub is cared for by its mother until it has enough strength to survive on its own. If mothers cannot do this, what does that make humans? A mother…

Learn to live colorfully with the Lalaloopsy Color Me Squiggles N' Shapes dolls, and find great deals on this toy from eBay. The blank, white canvas of the Lalaloopsy doll lets your child take markers and create all kinds of shapes and squiggles to decorate it any way he or she sees fit. These aren't just any markers because after creating all of the squiggles and shapes, you can easily clean each stamp off with a sponge so your kids can color again. This makes the toy a great deal compared to…

and the impermanence of that time. Some of the most popular toys from the 50s include decorated tin toy cars, restriction cars, diecast cars, trucks and farm machinery. For girls, plastic mannequin dolls for dressing eventually got famous enough for a major toy company to start making them. This doll was called Barbie and has been around ever since. In addition, other toys include Play-Doh, Silly Putty, Magic 8-balls, Frisbees, Slinkies, Pogo Sticks, Hula Hoops, toy trains, and dollhouses; all…

Lloyd on Lemmy Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman remembers Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister. The following Lemmy tribute was written by Lloyd Kaufman: writer, director, producer, co-founder and president of TROMA Entertainment for Girls and Corpses Magazine. December 30th, 2015 was my saddest birthday. It was my 70th birthday and I was with the Guna Indians in very remote San Blas Islands when the news of Lemmy Kilmister’s death reached me. The loss of Motörhead legend Lemmy, on December 28th, 2015, had a…