1. Jen

March 26, 2009 @ 11:36 am

I agree. Pregnant Barbie freaked me out too!

2. Allison G-MOD

March 26, 2009 @ 12:40 pm

I don’t like Tattoo Barbie.
Neither Dh or I have tattoos. We both feel the same way about them.
I’m hoping my kids won’t want them when they are of age.

I don’t really even let them get the fake temporary tats. They are a “once in a greeeat while” treat. A cartoon-type on the top of their hand is OK I guess, even though I don’t like them.

But I was NOT HAPPY when my friend gave my daughter a tramp-stamp one day! She game home with a glittery butterfly on her lower back, and I was pissed. I don’t need anyone’s attention drawn to my 4 year old’s belt line. Kids at this age want the temp ones so they can look at them. They don’t even know they’re there when you put them in a place where they can’t even see them. So when you put one in that location on a 4 year old, you’re basically saying “Hey! Look at my baby’s body. Dontcha want that???”

3. Jessica

March 26, 2009 @ 12:52 pm

I don’t really have a strong opinion one way or another.

I’m not a big tatoo fan either.

I know their a lot different today, but when I was a kid (insert Granny voice) tatoos were pretty WT. Now it’s common-place.

I’m still of the mindset that it’s fine for rock stars, not fine for proper ladies, but if I had a daughter who got the tatoo barbie as a gift, I wouldn’t make a big deal out of it although I’d probably name her Amber.

4. mully

March 26, 2009 @ 1:07 pm

For God’s sake! What next?

Copulating Barbie and Ken?

5. Allison G-MOD

March 26, 2009 @ 1:40 pm

The best quote I’ve ever heard, came from Ozzy Osbourne. When his daughter came home with a tattoo, she claimed “It’s different. I’m unique”.
And his response was “What the bloody F—? (mumble) If you f—ing want to be f—ing different,(mumble) then don’t get a bloody f—ing tattoo. Because f—ing everybody’s got them! (mumble) How is that f—ing unique?”

(it was wise and insightful, even if it was covered in F words, and some words one couldn’t understand )

6. Valerie

March 26, 2009 @ 2:00 pm

Maybe the next Barbie will have removable breast implants. Seems like anything goes lately.
I had never seen the pregnant Barbie. It is freaky!!!!

Where exactly is this tatoo on Barbie?

7. Nancy

March 26, 2009 @ 2:17 pm

I saw the commercial for this the other day, and while I’m not exactly running out to get this for the 5YO Barbie fan in my house, it’s not a huge issue for me. After all, how many of our kids have play make-up in their costume sets? They like playing grown up and for some grown ups, tattoos are just another form of self-expression.

8. Lauren

March 26, 2009 @ 3:42 pm

I don’t have any tattoes, but my husband has a couple. I just can’t imagine putting something on my body that I can’t take off or wash off if I want to. I like options.

When my two youngest were 6 and 4, I was busy one Saturday, cleaning, something or other. Anyway, they were upstairs playing. They were quiet, but I knew they had a movie on, so although I’d call up to check, they’d say they were fine, and I’d go about my business. That night, however, I screamed in horror as I lifted my 4 year old daughter’s shirt over her head to put her in the bathtub. She was stamped with those ink tattoes all over her stomach and arms and back. Not an inch was left uncovered. Needless to say, that’s why they were so quiet all afternoon.

It took a good month for those tats to wear off, with nightly scrubbings.

I am disappointed that Mattel would promote that to such young children. Good God, don’t our kids get enough thrown at them when they’re barely teenagers?

9. mully

March 28, 2009 @ 11:46 am

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After all, how many of our kids have play make-up in their costume sets?

Makeup washes off with soap and water. Tatoos dont.

10. Corey

March 28, 2009 @ 12:18 pm

HAHAHAHA!

I don’t care about the tattoo barbie. I probably wouldn’t buy it, but I don’t see how it oversexualizes anybody. Do only people with tattoos have sex? Is showing off her bicep trampier than the fact that her breasts are ginormous and her waist is itty-bitty and if her measurements were accurate, a real woman would just fall over? I kinda don’t think so, but that’s just me.

Also, the reason I probably wouldn’t buy it doesn’t have to do with the tattoo. It’s because all barbies in my house end up naked with their heads busted off about 10 minutes after we buy them. I know it’s not just my kids, either.

The pregnant barbie, though, that is HILARIOUS. Cuz I birthed me a baby, and I *know* she didn’t fall right outta my abdomen! Apparently Barbie IS all about sex and not about reproduction!

12. Tracy

March 30, 2009 @ 11:04 am

I say ban all Barbies, gross.

I wouldn’t worry about her sparkling butterfly tattoo, any more than I’d worry about her super skinny waist line, perky tits, and flawless Barbie complexion.

To me, Barbie is gross. She’s going to be around forever as long as folks keep buying her though, and I’m sure there will be more awfulness. I kind of wish instead of a sparking butterfly she had a tattoo that said “read books..” or “learning is awesome..”

But, I have tattoos on both arms, and I love them. My daughter has grown up around folks with tattoos all over, and doesn’t notice whether someone has them, or doesn’t.

13. mully

March 30, 2009 @ 11:35 am

Im reading the comments aimed at banning Barbie in general. For now forget the tatoo Barbie.

Im pretty old. Id guess alot older than most of you blogging on this site. I got a Barbie the first year they came out waaaaay back in the late 50’s, early 60’s.

I played with her! She was a doll! I didnt think of her as a means to a better education (or not) or to make myself more conscious as a female.

I went to college in spite of playing with a Barbie. I even marched in pro-feminist rallies. I dont think playing with a doll, be it Barbie or whatever influences girls one way or the other to be creative, empowered adult females.

14. Valerie

March 30, 2009 @ 2:43 pm

Mully, I’m with you. I remember playing with my Barbie constantly when I was a kid. I think I received mine sometime in the 60’s.
I kept her in her little shiny black case with all of her clothes hanging on a little bar inside along with her shoes. I played with her as a doll. It was fun to dress her up or down. I also had Ken and one of the cars. She didn’t influence how I wanted to look or anything else.

I do think that pregnant Barbie is too much, but I wouldn’t really fuss too much about a butterfly tatoo on the top of her arm.

15. kennedy

March 30, 2009 @ 3:53 pm

I don’t like the Tatoo Barbie. It’s fake, but still. Barbie doesn’t have tatoos! The dolls I don’t like are those Bratz dolls. I refuse to buy my daughter those dolls! Barbie, in general, I much perfer. Barbie is supposed to set a positive example to girls. Telling little girls to get a tatoo, that’s not positive. Next they’ll have a Spring Break Barbie with little fake cases of beer, or Smoking Barbie with little mini cigarettes.

16. kennedy

March 30, 2009 @ 3:54 pm

By the way, it’s not like I think tatoos are as bad as underage drinking and smoking, but it’s not for children.

17. Gina Elliott

February 28, 2010 @ 9:59 pm

You people are nuts! Its a pretty little sparkly pink butterfly. Theres nothing wrong with that, nor tattoos. Its just art, its not like she has a gun in hand ready to murder! Geez.