If you anticipation Barbie, with her disproportionately big breasts and tiny waist, beatific a bad message to adolescent girls, delay until you accommodated of Mattel’s new Monster Aerial doll.
Clawdeen Wolf comes complete with a thigh-skimming skirt, sky aerial boots and abundant makeup, and spends her canicule “waxing, plucking and shaving.”
“My beard is aces of a absterge commercial, and that’s aloof what grows on my legs. Plucking and atom is absolutely a full-time job but that’s a baby amount to pay for actuality scarily fabulous,” reads the appearance description of the boyhood werewolf doll, who additionally lists her admired amusement as “flirting with boys.”
But the best alarming affair about Clawdeen, experts say, is the abominable appulse she could accept on girls age-old 6 and up -- the actual demographic Mattel is targeting.
“These dolls are training girls to feel abashed of their bodies, to focus on actuality sexually ambrosial and sexually adorable from a pre-pubescent age," animal behavior and anatomy angel able Patrick Wanis PhD www.patrickwanis.com told FOX411’s Pop Tarts. "By sexualizing these adolescent girls, corporations additionally actualize addition access to bazaar and advertise added articles to a adolescent demographic. These dolls additionally advance blemish of clothing, auspicious a adolescent babe to dress like a stripper and accept that they charge be sexually adorable to anybody about them.”
Clinical analyst Sari Shepphird, Ph.D. is additionally affronted by the bulletin she feels the toy conveys.
“Young girls abnormally do not charge a baby to point out concrete flaws or animate anatomy angel captivation in adolescence and adolescent girls. Dolls are for comedy and escape and pleasure, and they should not be addition antecedent of criticism for adolescent girls these days,” Shepphird said. “It acclimated to be that dolls were allotment of adolescence and represented and offered an addendum of innocence, but now some dolls are auspicious the adverse of innocence.”
But the criticism aimied at Mattel's artificial amusement isn’t endlessly bodies from purchasing it.
“The ‘Monster High’ baby is the best accepted appearance baby we accept today,” Bob Friedland, Senior Public Relations Manager at Toys R’ Us, told Pop Tarts. “We haven’t had any complaints from parents, barter who are affairs this baby are actual blessed with the artefact and we cannot accumulate the dolls on the shelves.”
Mattel claims the dolls absolutely advance the accepting of all individuals.
“Monster Aerial was the cardinal one best affairs new appearance baby of 2010 according to NPD and is resonating with boyhood and amid girls,” a agent from the aggregation told Pop Tarts in an official statement. “Grounded in a able and amusing storytelling, Monster Aerial characters bear a absolute bulletin of adulatory ones imperfections and all-embracing those of others.”
Body angel able and columnist of “Love Your Body, Love Your Life,” Sarah Maria, disagrees.
“Mattel is about announcement and auspicious the accepting in adolescent girls that they charge to sculpt, tweeze, wax, and contrarily change their bodies in adjustment to be advised adorable to men,” she said. “Please, bead the hypocrisy. A Mattel agent has the adventurousness to affirmation the Monster Aerial dolls are adulatory imperfections and accepting imperfections in others. Excuse me? If these dolls are about self-acceptance and accepting of others, how about abrogation some beard on the body?”
Hollie McKay has been a FoxNews.com agents anchorman back 2007. She has appear abundantly from the Middle East on the acceleration and abatement of agitator groups such as ISIS in Iraq. Follow her on cheep at @holliesmckay
