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Demonstrators putting together a display of baby dolls on the steps of City Hall yesterday in recognition of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day struggled in their attempts to track down a balance of racially mixed dolls. The Times says that having a mix was important because about 90 percent of women living with HIV in New York City are black and Hispanic and an even higher percentage when it comes to new HIV infections in teenage females. But that wasn't easy to convey for members of the Gay Men's Health Crisis who helped organize it. One member said, “A few people who purchased dolls found it very hard to find brown or black baby dolls. I went to three 99-cent stores and couldn’t find any. Another colleague went to four stores. What is that about?” The paper points out that American Girl and Dora dolls (not to mention Homies) have gone a long way to diversifying what used to just include "Barbies dipped in color." Word is that Dora is about to get a sexy new makeover and there are now Sasha and Malia dolls—but not to be confused with the Obamas of course.
Baby Dolls of Color Hard to Come By
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I think I know where they can get a negro cookie.
"about 90 percent of women living with HIV in New York City are black and Hispanic" Does this correlate to anything in the story or about those suffering from AIDS? Are you suggesting that doll manufacturers are excluding the above group due to their ethnic makeup or because they have HIV?
This being a story about having trouble finding dolls "of color" in the city for an HIV demonstration, I'd say that stat is pretty relevant. I don't know why you're reading so deep into it.
but FUCK that's a shocking statistic isn't it?
Is it really too un-PC now to just call them "black baby dolls"? Would that really offend anybody? I don't get the recent shift to saying "----- of color." That's a lot closer to "colored" than just saying "black."
It has nothing to do with so-called political correctness. It's a simple matter of accuracy.
What do these people expect from a 99 cents store anyway? It's a hit or miss deal there, that's why they're cheap. Maybe FOA Schwartz has an ethnically correct 'Retrovirus Barbie'.
Sometimes FAO Schwartz has too many dolls of color.
Listen to Act Three of this This American Life episode.
Ides,
Why do discussions of race and equality threaten you so much?
Manufacturers normally manufacture stuff that sells. If there is no market for an item then it doesn't sell. If another manufacturer notices that there is a market for a certain item then they will produce it.
So what gives?
So true. Big Business is notoriously Darwinian.
Obviously the white dolls don't sell either if they end up in a 99 cent store.
Gee a portion of the population that is responsible for the majority of AIDS cases suddenly finds out its not popular for baby-doll makers...
Own your mistakes! Stop blaming everyone else. Its not random chance that makes this stuff up. Start producing more CEO's and Williams sisters and watch things change. Want to act like a coherent race? Then suck it up and accept your own failures too. The blame game is tired.
Wow... you're kind of retarded, aren't you? Will just babble whatever nonsense you can to any story, regardless of how irrelevant.