Tattoo Barbie (aka the less threatening/intimidating and more palatable “Butterfly Art Barbie”) is the source of high controversy among some parents. According to one Sacramento parent:
“It’s attracting kids too young to want to expose parts of their body to show off tattoos,”
Does it have a tinge of over-sexualization? Are we becoming too desensitized or are we overreacting? I must confess, I don’t see what the big fuss is all about. Should I? So she’s got tats and a tattoo ‘gun’. They come off. Is it the message of over-exposure that’s getting to everyone? Or, rather, exposure to non-age appropriate situations and ideas?
How many of you had stick-on tattoos when you were kids? Do your kids have them?
Is this as big of a deal as some make it out to be? Do you see a problem with this particular Barbie?
Quite frankly, I’m a little more concerned and creeped out by the pregnant barbie whose baby just kind of falls out of her stomach….
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