Thursday August 27, 2009, 7:21 pm
Oh My,I am so glad you are back!!!!! I have been doing all the crazy ones,and this is a doosie!Thanks,Gorilly

Thursday August 27, 2009, 7:41 pm
I cant actually beleive they are marketing this towards kids...What the hell....I mean this is a older story, but I have never heard of this....creepy..

Gorilly

Luvs ya Suzybell

Friday August 28, 2009, 6:23 am
This takes the cake. I can't believe they put this out. What next. Thanks Gorilly Girl.

Friday August 28, 2009, 9:39 am
I thought this doll would be for those mom's with empty nest syndrome hee hee...

Friday August 28, 2009, 9:40 am
Disgusting

Friday August 28, 2009, 9:57 am
We are so smart we are crazy.............

Plant trees for life...........

Friday August 28, 2009, 11:10 am
Now everyone should just relax. This doll will help acclimatize girls to increase their birthrate in their early teens. Just what we need. (I'm being sarcastic.)

Friday August 28, 2009, 11:17 am
I think this is really sweet, personally dolls coming with bottles & dummies is one of my little pet hates. My then 3-year-old SON would 'breastfeed' his toys while I breastfed his baby brother. why disgusting? perhaps the lack of breastfeeding leads to the sexualisation of breasts & not the other way round.....

Friday August 28, 2009, 11:20 am
It's a bit odd, but hey, breasts are for breastfeeding. I used to "breastfeed" my dolls - I held them and said, "the baby's eating"... And that was it! Whatever happened to using your imagination???

Friday August 28, 2009, 11:22 am
Hear hear, Jessica!!! We should be worried that bottles have become so mainstream that a kid knowing what breasts are for seems weird to us. Bottles and formula are a good thing for moms who can't breastfeed - but hell, let's hear it for nature - the old-fashioned way is always better, at least in these cases.

Friday August 28, 2009, 1:40 pm
I read the story, saw the photo and the comments. I guess all in all I'm wondering why breast feeding is looked at as "dirty". It is what nature intended. Children imitate everything we do, so if a child imitates they are breast feeding, so what? How did this get to be something "disgusting" and sexual, because that is what it is looked upon, as some sort of sexual act and it is not. We have come so far, to take 30 steps back.

Friday August 28, 2009, 3:49 pm
The trouble is that women's bodies have been sexualized so much that this seems to sexualize girls too, somehow, along with some fashions and dolls.
I agree, imagination is better, not creeppy toys like this.

Friday August 28, 2009, 6:45 pm
Yeah what is wrong with promoting breast feeding instead of teaching all of our kids that babies are fed from bottles. Once again we turn nature on its head and anything natural is dirty. We got it all backwards here in this country.

Friday August 28, 2009, 10:32 pm
Strange,but,I guess it could be a good thing.But,aren't we kind of rushing children to grow up a little fast these days? Maybe I'm wrong,but it just seems so.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 7:39 am
I don't understand the fuss, actually. Anyone who's ever nursed her children and then watched them grow up (like me) knows that young children love to play with dolls, emulating the ways they see adults taking care of infants and children. Dolls are some of the oldest toys found in archaeological sites, in fact. Just as Jessica and others have said, children who view nursing as the ordinary way to feed an infant, will pretend to breastfeed their dolls.

Is there a need for an electronic gadget to enter the play? Well, no, not really. I'm sure children throughout the ages have nursed cornhusk dolls without faces, sticks wrapped in rags and lovingly named, and anything else their imaginations can endow with human infancy. But what's the big deal that makes an electronically-enhanced doll newsworthy or disgusting? Has anyone looked at a modern toy department lately? Even when I was a kid, dolls transformed into robots, eagerly gummed Jell-O, talked, walked, and crawled on their own. Today, they respond to kids' voices with appropriate actions. They play video games. They go online with their young owners for virtual playdates with other dolls. I'm no neo-Luddite--witness the fact that this discussion is occurring on an internet forum--so I don't have a specific problem with technology-enhanced toys.

Does the halter top with flower-nipples look weird to me? Well, yeah. But parents of little girls who might otherwise be inclined to lift their shirts in public to nurse their existing dolls probably see some benefit in a less-shocking alternative, at least as long as the contemporary public views breastfeeding infants itself as sexualized and weird.

What is it that I find shocking? I find it shocking that people here at Care2 views breastfeeding infants itself as sexualized and weird.

Monday August 31, 2009, 5:41 pm
I guess some just have their reasons hun to think of this as sexualized and odd. Escecially those whom have been molested in any shape, way or form.....I can see where one would think this not right. But I am only posting a story I think is odd and weird. But anyhooo's I didnt mean for this story to be a argument we all have our opinions that we should all respect and have them voiced....I do understand where you are comming from Ms. Cooper...but I still think it a bit odd meself...

Big Gorilly Hugs to you all...Gorilly

Saturday October 10, 2009, 7:13 pm
The BEBE GLOTON is already come and gone in the USA the first batch was sold out before they arrived and next batch will arrive October 28, you can purchase it on eBay, Amazon or www.bebegloton.us The earliest you will get it is the first week of November. The manufacturer is almost sold out and after the end of November he won't have any more until February. Hurry up if you want yours for Christmas. These dolls are for 3 year old and up. And some people says this is creepy but 3 year old don't think in sexual terms they see breastfeeding as something natural and they don't question it. Only adults are creepy

Saturday October 10, 2009, 8:33 pm
If there is one angle of questioning mimicing
reality this raises a dozen in my mind.

In Europe & all too many third world countries
breast feeding is so normal & very well accepted
as the norm, even in public.

In spite of the fact we in America have more
sexualized this and that going on by way of
every telecommunications known to man
we still hang onto our dearly beloved puritanical
ways.

However, the problem I see with this doll is
the exposure of more than necessary sexualization
to little girls mimicing a behavior that is viewed as
sexual. because of our prudishness.

America has an extremely high pregnancy rate among
teen girls and down the road in a few years after the
doll is put away it is feasible we will see a mini
explosion of even more pregnant teens just because
of this doll. Keep in mind teenage girls are not the
most mature people in our society and to be a mommy
will be all the more natural thing to be brought on
by the nurturing instinct by way of this doll whether
it is viewed as sexual or not.

I can jjust see the reaction now on the faces of
people, family members & even in public of seeing
a little girl breast feed a doll.

The problem is us adults & not really the children.
We may have come a long way baby but we've got
a mighty long way to go for this baby.

Plant trees for life....................