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Now, I don't really see a problem with this. They have had barbie with kinky underwear for years. So what do you expect is gonna happen when Ken sees her like that?
I think it's good education (yes the kinky underwear is too, too many women are ignorant of that).
Having said that I asume I'm gonna get loads of flames from sexually repressed people.
Barbie's pregnant pal pulled from shelves
Wednesday, December 25, 2002 Posted: 9:36 AM EST (1436 GMT)
The pregnant version of Midge, Barbie's oldest friend, pops out a curled-up baby when her belly is opened.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- She's Barbie's oldest friend, happily married and visibly pregnant -- which, some parents complain, makes her unfit for children.
The pregnant version of Midge, which pops out a curled-up baby when her belly, attached by a magnet, is opened -- has been pulled from Wal-Mart shelves across the country following complaints from customers, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
"It was just that customers had a concern about having a pregnant doll," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Cynthia Illick said.
She said the retailer would no longer sell the "Happy Family" set, which included pregnant Midge, her husband and her 3-year-old son.
Illick said the decision was made in mid-December. "What we try to do is listen to what our customers want," she said.
Messages left for representatives of the toy's maker, Mattel Inc., were not returned Tuesday.
Midge was introduced in 1963, the first of a slew of friends and family members for Barbie, who first appeared four years earlier and has been one of the world's top-selling dolls ever since.
The pregnant Midge wears a wedding ring and comes with doll-sized crib, cradle, changing table, baby toys and a baby monitor. The husband and son are sold separately.
Mattel posted an article on its Barbie Web site by University of Southern California psychology professor Jo Ann Farver praising the doll as a "wonderful prop," particularly for families expecting a new sibling.
Midge is a family woman who dons a wedding band and has a 3-year-old son.
Manager Bill Boehmer of the KB Toys store in Philadelphia's Roosevelt Mall said he had heard only positive responses from customers.
"I've had people laugh, but I haven't had anyone say this was ridiculous or 'What are we trying to tell these kids?' or anything like that," said Boehmer.
But at KB Toys in downtown Philadelphia, customer reaction Tuesday was uniformly negative.
"It promotes teenage pregnancy. What would an 8-year-old or 12-year-old get out of that doll baby?" asked Sabrina Fagan, 29, who has a 9-year-old son.
"Most girls want to be like Barbie" or her friends, said Kenya Williams, 29, who has two daughters, ages 9 and 7. "Maybe if they would have put them all together as a family, it might be a little different, but alone it sends out the wrong message."
Wednesday, December 25, 2002 Posted: 9:36 AM EST (1436 GMT)
The pregnant version of Midge, Barbie's oldest friend, pops out a curled-up baby when her belly is opened.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- She's Barbie's oldest friend, happily married and visibly pregnant -- which, some parents complain, makes her unfit for children.
The pregnant version of Midge, which pops out a curled-up baby when her belly, attached by a magnet, is opened -- has been pulled from Wal-Mart shelves across the country following complaints from customers, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
"It was just that customers had a concern about having a pregnant doll," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Cynthia Illick said.
She said the retailer would no longer sell the "Happy Family" set, which included pregnant Midge, her husband and her 3-year-old son.
Illick said the decision was made in mid-December. "What we try to do is listen to what our customers want," she said.
Messages left for representatives of the toy's maker, Mattel Inc., were not returned Tuesday.
Midge was introduced in 1963, the first of a slew of friends and family members for Barbie, who first appeared four years earlier and has been one of the world's top-selling dolls ever since.
The pregnant Midge wears a wedding ring and comes with doll-sized crib, cradle, changing table, baby toys and a baby monitor. The husband and son are sold separately.
Mattel posted an article on its Barbie Web site by University of Southern California psychology professor Jo Ann Farver praising the doll as a "wonderful prop," particularly for families expecting a new sibling.
Midge is a family woman who dons a wedding band and has a 3-year-old son.
Manager Bill Boehmer of the KB Toys store in Philadelphia's Roosevelt Mall said he had heard only positive responses from customers.
"I've had people laugh, but I haven't had anyone say this was ridiculous or 'What are we trying to tell these kids?' or anything like that," said Boehmer.
But at KB Toys in downtown Philadelphia, customer reaction Tuesday was uniformly negative.
"It promotes teenage pregnancy. What would an 8-year-old or 12-year-old get out of that doll baby?" asked Sabrina Fagan, 29, who has a 9-year-old son.
"Most girls want to be like Barbie" or her friends, said Kenya Williams, 29, who has two daughters, ages 9 and 7. "Maybe if they would have put them all together as a family, it might be a little different, but alone it sends out the wrong message."
I think it's good education (yes the kinky underwear is too, too many women are ignorant of that).
Having said that I asume I'm gonna get loads of flames from sexually repressed people.
"Happily married", my foot!
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