Closing Bell: Hanging Out on the Stoop
For most of us, it’s getting too cold to partake in that great Brooklyn activity known as hangin’ out on the stoop. Not so at this sweet, freestanding home in South Slope where someone has parked their doll with the big-ole-head in their stead. Might it stay there ’til spring?
For most of us, it’s getting too cold to partake in that great Brooklyn activity known as hangin’ out on the stoop. Not so at this sweet, freestanding home in South Slope where someone has parked their doll with the big-ole-head in their stead. Might it stay there ’til spring?
Could be worse: It could have been KLAUS Barbie sitting on the steps. . .talk about your Stoop Nazi!
Doll abuse begins at a very young age.
From The TimesDecember 19, 2005
Barbarism begins with Barbie, the doll children love to hate
By Alexandra Frean, Social Affairs Correspondent
BARBIE, that plastic icon of girlhood fantasy play, is routinely tortured by children, research has found.
The methods of mutilation are varied and creative, ranging from scalping to decapitation, burning, breaking and even microwaving, according to academics from the University of Bath.
The findings were revealed as part of an in-depth look by psychologists and management academics into the role of brands among 7 to 11-year-old schoolchildren.
The researchers had not intended to focus on Barbie, but they were taken aback by the rejection, hatred and violence she provoked when they asked the children about their feelings for the doll.
Violence and torture against Barbie were repeatedly reported across age, school and gender. No other toy or brand name provoked such a negative response.
“You might expect little girls to love their Barbie and expect an imaginary love in return. Instead girls feel violence and hatred towards their Barbie,†Agnes Nairn, one of the researchers, said
Here’s the whole story…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article767739.ece
Polemicist, that actually made me laugh out loud.
I’d hit it.
It’s a life-size Christina Aguilera doll.
Maybe one of the person’s that think everybody should be allowed to drink beer outside of their house/home
hollowed out the doll and filled her up with beer.
I first thought it was Giada DeLaurentis in a wig.
“Sitting on my stoop, watching the world go by…
Too bad I can’t have a beer to nurse,
Since the cops keep on me as I let the tickets fly.”
You think she can have a beer without getting a ticket?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmlDhIDkqA
Too lazy to write the lyrics.
Little Jackie is Imani Coppola.