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No, i would say that the bratz dolls are not appropriate for young girls in the same sense that having a role model like paris hilton is not a good role model for young girls. It seems to me that these dolls give the impression that in order to be attractive to boys you need to be mean, it also portrays the sort of " my daddy gets me whatever i want " image that must be stressful on the parents.

It also puts a very high importance on personal appearance on girls at a young age which could easily put her on the fast track to anorexia or bulimia because they see that these girls have great lives because they look good and buy alot with their money to look even better. This, along with most other advertising icons, portray women as young looking, thin people who look and act to what men desire. which will inevitably make a girls life harder trying to live up to these expectations.

Bratz are not the first to portray this image, there was also other dolls before that like Barbie, but they seem to have taken more responsibility on the harm their doing and stopped making their dolls so thin. And even other then dolls there is always the other negative influences like advertising in magazines and using sexy women to glorify their products even if their product had nothing to do with woman. If you want my opinion, i say the world should stop this and start working on a better way to portray a gender.

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