Family-Unfriendly Aesop/Toys

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Examples of Family-Unfriendly Aesops in Toys include:

  • Bratz: Don't theorise, accessorise!
  • One word-Barbies
    • Sure, Barbie may present an unrealistic standard of beauty that no human being could ever hope to live up to, but she's a hell of a lot better than the Bratz. She's been a doctor, an astronaut, a teacher, a vet, President, a painter, a musician, a student. She even has a movie where she tells the prince at the end that she can't marry him yet because she still has things she wants to do before she settles down. And she's |well-read in political theory. Barbie is actually quite a good role model.
  • The Purr-tenders were cats masquerading as other animals because they thought they weren't special enough to get attention otherwise. This deception was encouraged; instead of being yourself, it was better to hide who you really were at all costs and hope people accepted the mask you wore for them... and if they found out the deception, that they'd already grown attached enough to you not to mind that you'd been lying all this time.