Yes oh G-d yes! One of them had a nose job. A NOSE JOB! And they have those crazy lips...

Plastic toys = plastic kids, perhaps.

Those horrid things will not enter my home.

I am a toy snob, as it is.

Only if said girl follows the teachings of a doll :) Hopefully she has her own sense of who she is and cares not to emulate a plastic toy. I had Barbie dolls and I can honestly say that I was never inclined to be tan, blonde, large breasted, drive a pink car, and date a guy named Ken.

Am I missing something here? Since when do Bratz dolls encourage "sex before marriage, at an early age"? They may not conform to some people's ideals as far as the way they are dressed, but I personally do not think the outfits are any worse than some things that Barbie has worn over the years. I have read the books to my four-year-old daughter many times, and I can't say I remember ANY mention of sex, casual or otherwise. In fact, I believe that the most recent one I read had a story of four girls who went to the beach, and helped other people they met on the beach. They also worked out a dispute between the four of them in a manner that suggested they were upright and wholesome young women. No casual sex. No sluttiness. And not a bit shallow. I believe you are letting your own moral standards for the way a young woman should dress or whether she should wear makeup influence your view. And, by the way, for you to suggest that any woman could be a "slut" based upon what they are learning from a doll, seems like a very shallow and chauvinistic standard.

Believe it or not, they've been around for years and years. Adults don't like them and see them differently from kids. At the end of the day, they do not have the ability to teach anybody anything - they are lumps of moulded plastic - and when I last checked, they could not have sex of any way, shape or form. They also lack a brain inside the head which means they are not good at instruction.

Let's remember they are not real little people - they are dolls, that do sod all.

No. What does fashion - even skimpy fashion - have to do with sexual activity? How is the fashion any skimpier than Barbie with the 44DD chest? Finally, I strongly disagree with the word "slut" and its connotations. It is a sexist judgment made on females for behavior that is considered perfectly acceptable in males.

Personally, I wouldn't want anything around my daughters (or my sister) that teaches traditional, sexist attitudes towards sexuality or gender. Keep it away - far away.

Yes - I think so. Trashy toys for a trashy generation.

It is beyond me how a normal rational and sensible minded parent could credit a doll with their childs possible future behaviour patterns.
I believe a child to be more influenced by regular and continual parental guidance as opposed to the influence of a raggy haired doll that their child may have played with on a few occassions several years ago and I would seriously wonder at the intelligence of anyone who could honestly give credit or lay blame for the same on a doll.

No.

yes finally everyone is starting to see what we teach kids