About the 'new' Dora: STFU

My head is about to pop off. Currently, it’s as swollen as the original Dora’s big ass cabeza. Moms are all in a friggin’ tizzy over a SHADOW. A fucking silhouette. Seriously folks?! Can we wait and see if she looks like a Bratz doll before we throw a fit? This is totally premature. It seems like people just want to claim FIRST?! in attacking what they don’t know anything about. Calm down folks! Can we reserve judgment after we see what she actually looks like?

I also find the simultaneous uproar over the Tattoo Barbie to be amusing. It’s bad for Barbies to come with toy tattoo machines and stickers because it gives girls the ‘wrong message’ (that they can be successful artists for a living, gorgeous with ink, or break the mold as to what’s ok for girls to do?). I’d go into detail, but Maria basically already took care of it. What I don’t get is that it’s also bad for Dora to embody everything that they would say is in opposite of that? What am I missing?

Dora does not look the slightest bit inappropriate. Not. one. bit. She looks older. Which is the point of this!! This is not the new Dora The Explorer, that will be playing on Nick Jr. at 9am. This Dora is not geared towards preschoolers. She’s. not. a. baby. anymore. Inappropriate would be an 8 year old in orange shorts and ruffled yellow socks. I’m just sayin’… This is what children wear. You wouldn’t be hard pressed to walk into an elementary school and find a classroom full of little girls in cute outfits, not dissimilar to what this new Dora looks to be wearing.

What’s wrong with her clothes? Nothing. Not a damn thing. There’s no sex appeal. Just because she’s shaped like an actual child and not a basketball, she’s ’sexed up’? Pfft.

People act like it’s bad for girls to be interested in fashion, clothing, girly things. Now if you know me, you know that I am totally against shoving stereotypes down the throats of my daughters. I get a little tickle of elation every time they go for the primary colored toy over the pink, and want the action figure over the doll. I do not allow Bratz or those ‘My Style’ Barbies in my house. But there is nothing wrong with young girls liking to look good, as long as that doesn’t include exposing their navel, wearing eyeshadow or stilettos, give or take some sluttiness.

The Bella is quite the teeny fashionista. She chooses her own clothes when we go shopping (with my input, of course) and picks out her own clothes every morning. She has her own sense of style, makes adventurous choices and does the damn thing. I love it. Ask her what she wants for any holiday or birthday? To go shopping for clothes. A new pair of shoes. The child has more in her closet than I ever did. This is something she’s into, and I’m more than happy to encourage it. I style her hair the way she requests as long as time allows, and laugh watching her play stylist to her little sister. It’s her thing. Why is that bad? Oh right! It ain’t.

I asked her if she liked the new older Dora’s shadow. She said yes, and I asked her what she liked. Her reply? “I like that she has long hair like me. I like her skirt, and she has on leggings like I wear with my skirts.  And I have shoes like that! but with no bows” I asked her if she liked what the old Dora was wearing. “No, she wore bad colors. And I didn’t like her hair.” Y’all know Dora had bad hair. A fucking bowl cut does not work for Latin people. We have thick hair. They should have known better.

I guess what I’m saying is that people are either putting the cart before the horse, getting their facts mixed up with general assumptions or just looking for an opportunity to bitch. Dora isn’t sexy. She’s just growing up – which guess what folks? All kids do.

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