Mattel Doll Preaches The Gospel Of Hair Removal

http://jezebel.com/#!5782870/mattel-doll-encourages-girls-to-pluck--shave

I was really surprised to see the blog Jezebel’s article on Mattel’s Monster High Doll, Clawdeen Wolf. The Monster High line of dolls are based on famous monsters, and Clawdeen is a werewolf’s daughter and is causing uproar with parents. On the doll’s box is the description: “My hair is worthy of a shampoo commercial, and that's just what grows on my legs. Plucking and shaving is definitely a full-time job but that's a small price to pay for being scarily fabulous. “. This statement has gotten attention because people worry that this will give girls the impression that in order to be considered beautiful and to fit in, they have to remove their body hair. Not to mention the fact that the doll helps to enforce a number of society’s other beauty ideals, with her thin build, super-short skirt, and profile that states that she likes shopping and flirting with boys. While I know that it is just a sentence on the back of the doll’s box, if a child reads that it could give them the wrong impression about beauty. My favorite part of the article is when Mattel made a statement saying their dolls "deliver a positive message of celebrating ones imperfections and embracing those of others.". As the author stated, creating a doll that extensively removes its body hair to fit in, is not really giving the message for girls to embrace their differences.