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Top 5 Worst Birthday Gifts for Girls
Pretty box, but you won't believe what's inside!
Really, there are so many awful toys out there. Either the baby products are covered with lead (or cadmium!) or they take gobs of batteries. Or they’re loud and annoying. Or just plain expensive. If you’ve ever been shopping with a girl in mind, you also know that the toys can get … weird. As in, really? For a little girl? Why?
The Huffington Post rounded up a list of the 14 worst toys for girls, but it included a doll that you can breastfeed which … how is that bad? So I culled their picks to a Top 5 list of the worst birthday gifts for girls.
Starting with this senseless kit:
Makeovers for 8-year-olds?
2. Pole-dancing doll
Pole dancing ... doll?
3. T-shirt expressing a mother’s misplaced career dreams? [credit: VioletsAreBlue]
Why? ... Why!
4. Blurring the line between dressing dolls and dressing, um, baby sisters?
More size 0 high heels!
5. Cleaning cart — in gender-coded colors! [via Feministing]
No shame in learning to clean. But, wow, is this toy a drag!
See the others in the Huffington Post list of , which includes kids (read: girls) back tattoos, Barbies with tattoo guns, a creepy dog in designer jeans and princess cleaning supplies (enough with the cleaning supplies!).
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Photos: via Huffington Post, Amazon, alteredstateofmind.blogspot.com
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[...] Top 5 Worst Birthday Gift Ideas for Girls [...]
Stuffed Animals With Mental Illness | Strollerderby commented on Sep 09 10 at 4:26 pmAmy commented on Sep 08 10 at 5:37 pmThis brought a smile to my face. I thought it was a joke until I switched over to HP to check them out. What in the world are these people thinking. I don’t know what I would do if my daughter were to get some of these as a gift. OH MY GOODNESS! LOL. (she would however love the cleaning stuff – she is a cleaner that girl).
Angela commented on Sep 09 10 at 5:47 pmI don’t mind letting kids use play cleaning supplies, but is it really necessary to stamp “Girls Only” on the box?
Becca commented on Sep 09 10 at 7:44 pmThe others are scary but my preschooler has her heart set on the cleaning cart she thinks that is awesome.
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