October 21, 2011
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Tattooed ‘Barbie’ Doll
I am thinking of getting my daughter the new tattooed Barbie Doll.
Some people are concerned the Tattooed Barbie sends a bad message to children. Here is the link: Link
Does Tattooed Barbie send a bad message?
Comments (59)
No, it doesn’t. I think it’s neat to see and as long as your kid knows that you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, and are aware of what all accompanies it, why should it be bad?
Barbie’s been sending bad messages for 50 years.
She’s sassy. If I ever had kids I’d get it to teach them to be unique.
I can think of several other versions that would be worse…..whore Barbie, drunk Barbie, meth addict Barbie to name a few. I was thinking of getting my daughter a Barbie for Christmas. I’ll have to consider tattoo Barbie…lol…jk
nah, but if I had a daughter I wouldn’t want to buy it for her. Personally, I don’t know how people can stand tattoos! I’d be trying to scrub them off thinking my arm or whatever is dirty. You know kind of like when you accidentally get a sharpie mark and it doesn’t come off for days?
Whats the bad message?
I used to have a doll, that when you pumped her arm, temporary tattoos came out of her belly button. I’m serious. And I still don’t have a tattoo. So people are reading too much into it.
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It’s a lot better message than most other Barbie dolls!
I guess the message is “tattoos are a cool accessory it you’re hip enough”
To some that would be a pretty awesome message. To others, it challenges their lifestyle in primitive caves.
Oh yes…I forgot…anyone that has tattoos, including dolls…are sending bad messages.
I think she is awesome!
Let me think first :p
I have no issue with the tattoos, but I have an issue with the doll. Seriously, Mattel, duck-face? You gave Barbie duck-face?!
You have a daughter?
no, that just keeps here current. My hubby asked if it was a tramp stamp.
Tattooed Barbie sends no more of a bad message than regular Barbie. I mean seriously. They haven’t changed her body proportions to a healthy size yet, but they’re concerned about if the tattooing sends a bad message. I think that as far as getting it for your daughter goes, if she really wants it, then get it for her.
I think it’s cute. I kinda want one! lol
But people need to stop freaking out, its not meant for kids and won’t be sold at toy stores, so if it ends up ‘sending the wrong message’ it’s the parents fault.
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It’s no wonder I’m having a harder and harder time finding a suitable date. I hate tattoos.
That’s pretty nice. I like that.
So what if she has tattoos? So do I. But I most certainly am not shaped like that. And as much as I wanna say “… and I’m proud to be shaped the way I am…” I can’t, because I’m not. I’d much rather be shaped like her, and have honestly considered plastic surgery. No, her proportions are not healthy. But that’s what people see as beautiful. And I want so badly to be beautiful, not just in the eyes of others, but in my own eyes… But, I digress. The point behind my personal rant is this…. what’s the real issue we need to be addressing here?
No.
This is the nicest Barbie Doll iv’e ever seen. I just love the pink hair. Buy it for your little girl…I think it’s just fine.
I don’t know. It really depends on what type of person your child is. When I was a child, I wasn’t allowed to have barbie dolls. I didn’t have any self-image issues then and I didn’t really care what other people thought about me. I would never try to look like any of the toys that I played with. I used to get the bootleg Barbies (1 B’s). The dolls from the dollar store that are similar, but of course they are hollow and cheaply made. I always looked at them and felt that they did not look like real women. They were to skinny, large busted, and they wore the same expression all day. I did not want to look like that.
If your daughter knows that to achieve the appearance of a doll is impossible and she doesn’t tend to emulate whatever she sees on television or plays with, then it is completely okay to get her the doll.
I wouldn’t buy the doll, not because of the tattoos, but because I think she’s fugly
seriously? A bad message? Those BRATZ dolls are worse than barbie could ever hope to be.
Okay it is a doll and there are far more important things in this world to worry about, I don’t care what they do to barbie. As long as she isn’t tattoed with anything hateful, worry about something else.
I especially do not think it should be marketed to children, but frankly Barbie was mostly used for beheading and filling with catnip for my kitties when I was a child… or being torn apart by werewolves… They never stayed in tact generally speaking…
of course not, there’s nothing wrong with tattoos.
If you click the link it said that the Barbie was meant for adults and is a collectors item. I think theres a lot other negativity in the world right now, besides this Barbie, that parents need to be aware of. This Barbie is minuscule compared to catching them watching R rated movies on tv or something.
omg. lol No. It does not.
I don’t know about any other generation, but in my earlier years, kids were total fanatics of writing on their skin. Always. I got in so much trouble, countless times for coming home with writing on my skin. After being reprimanded enough times for it, I stopped… then, years later, I got my third tattoo and am now planning for my fourth, fifth and sixth tattoos.
LMAO at her dog’s name: “bastardo.” lol But awww… bummer that it won’t be sold in stores. I wanted a Tokidoki doll. lol
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Tattooed Barbie sends the ignorant message that it is perfectly fine to play with a collectible Barbie. That’s wrong. It’s collectible. Put it on the shelf where it belongs and put a $10 Malibu Barbie in your daughter’s hands. What’s next? Letting your kid play with Mulder & Scully Barbies or Desi & Lucy Barbies??? For shame!
I don’t think that’s very pretty or that girls will even want it. If they don’t want it, fortunately the question of whether I’d spend my money on it for a kid won’t come up.
Well if people think getting tattoos is bad… Then it might send that message.. Which may be bad… But I don’t think it sends a bad message..
the new tattooed barbie says – TATS ARE COOL, just make sure the needle’s clean!
I personally wouldn’t want my little sisters having this just because I don’t want them to get tatted up, but I can understand why a mom with a bunch of tattoos could buy this for her kid so she could justify her tats.
yeah, it sends the bad message that being tattood like that doesn’t make you look like you always need to take a shower.
Ladies, it’s nasty. Guys, it’s really, really douch-bagesque of you to be tattood up like that.
Just sayin.
No way, it’s not like it’s a pregnant with 4 other children holding apron strings single welfare collecting barbie! lol Actually I want one!
They’re all sold out. They were just a collectors item anyway.
Not at all! People are too worried about the little things and trying to shelter their children too much these days.
“and a cactus-covered pet named “Bastardino.””
LOLOL Bastard-ino. Barbie be trollin’.
This would be the first barbie I’d actually ever want to own. What’s the bad message? Does it have a tattoo promoting drugs? gangs? murder? racism? I doubt it. It’s just how they always make a barbie for each crowd. This one is for the open minded crowd and the tattoo crowd. I don’t see a problem with it. I’d get it for my kid if I had one and they wanted it. Tattoos are becoming more socially acceptable and less taboo. But there will always be those that think this is sending a bad message or is some how offensive to them and will warp their poor child’s minds. Pft.
Hell yeah you should. Have you seen her dog?! Bad ass!
I think its cute
Honestly, what is the difference between my daughter seeing my tattoos and her seeing tattoos on a Barbie doll? I would use this doll like I use everything else in life, as a chance to teach my daughter something. Tattoos do not make a person bad.
I think people send bad messages. I don’t know where the notion that tattoos were so bad came from. Good people have tattoos. It’s art and expression!
It wouldn’t be much different than the message barbie has been giving about body image the last 50+ years.
How about a terrorist Barbie, with a cute black ski mask and AK47 accessories?
@darkoozeripple - good lets promote violence and hatred. sounds like a great idea. It got Sadam and Bin Ladden really far in life. Let me know how it works for you.
I don’t think it’s such a bad idea. Especially because it isn’t sold in toy stores and isn’t targeted toward children. However, I do think they went a little overboard. They could have spread the tattoos out a bit. like one on her neck another on an arm and then another on an ankle or something. they have them all in the same spot and it looks like a mess to me. The name of the pet isn’t good though.
My biggest complaint about Barbie dolls is how they changed the eyes to make them more like Bratz doll eyes. I think the change in eyes is unoriginal and ugly. They aren’t Bratz they’re barbie.
I can’t deny it though, I’d love to have one of those high fashion collectors Barbies.
You have a daughter young enough to play with dolls? I only have one still young enough to be interested in dolls and she’s all about her American Girl dolls
If tattooed barbies are a bad messege, so are temporary tattoos, right? I think it’s actually a great idea. Barbie has always been so stereotypical, and now they are finally breaking loose. Barbie showed us what a female “should look like”. Now its starting to find the beauty in all females, not just the flawless ones.
If people think this is a bad idea and that it sends the “Wrong” message what about all those barbie doll clothes that if barbie bends over you see her vagina? And barbie that comes by herself with babies? And how the image of barbie is tall and skinny with big boobs? This is the least of the problems with barbie, I don’t think their is anything wrong with this
It is well known I am an old fart..but when I was a widdle girl the Webster dictionary defined tattoo as: “permanent pictures inked into the skin by sailors and other disreputable people”. The reason I remember is that my father was in the Navy and thought it hillarious.
@totay - Did you ever hear about how if Barbie were an actual woman, she would have some serious problems? The proportions are anatomically impossible to have if you are alive, and they couldn’t even surgically alter someone into having those proportions w/o removing several necessary organs. I used to counsel battered women (having intimate knowledge of having a brutal mate), but got interested in the Dove Project, where Dove soap company has opened workshops for little girls to plant seeds of life-long self-confidence and self acceptance; to teach our daughters and granddaughters that they are beautiful, each and every one of them. And not w/that self defeating “in your own way” crap that in truth sounds to the ears of those receiving this message that they only have inner beauty and physical beauty if unattainable. As a counselor, and a one time victim, I have found that if we have inner confidence and acceptance of ourselves, warts and all, we are much less likely to fall for the crap that an abuser tries to sell to get us in a place where we are more vulnerable to his/her control.
Tattoos are apart of Modern American culture. Ultimately, whether or not you buy her the doll.. She will come in contact with tattooed individuals sooner or later. I myself am a tattooish man… I don’t think any toy or lack there of influenced my decision to be inked.
It’s absolutely absurd for parents to be in an uproar. I’m not running out to buy the doll but I’m not campaigning to strip it from the shelves either. I wouldn’t have been allowed to have it growing up because of religious reasons. However I have two young girls and when they are older, old enough to understand you don’t do everything you see ( no daughter harry potter does lot Really exis
t) I would have no problem with them having one
Barbie just isn’t the same as when I was growing up. :/ I wouldn’t say it’s good or bad, as it all depends on your culture and how you perceive it. However, I wouldn’t buy it myself. But that’s just me.
This doll is geared toward adult collectors. It comes with a pet named Bastardino. It costs $50. I’ve always thought Barbie in general sent a bad message. But I do love the pink hair.
I had a tattoo barbie when I was little, and I was a good child and have no tattoos.