2007-02-05 14:00:34 · 16 answers · asked by Colin M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I'm afraid it's a racial discrimination thing. It's a shame really as I had a knitted Golly when I was a kid and I thought it was fab.Being mixed race myself I think sometimes Colour/ Race discrimination can be really overreacted to. I have never seen a problem with gollys myself.
2007-02-08 06:00:38 · answer #1 · answered by vickiesox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just found out what a gollywog is.
Guess I've led a sheltered existance, to live half a century and never to have heard of it before. And now that I know what it is, I gotta say, good riddance!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollywog
2007-02-05 14:09:33 · answer #2 · answered by Joni DaNerd 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As other people have said, they were thought to be politically incorrect.
I loved my golly when I was a little boy - and I am most certainly not racist now!
I do think it's a shame that dolls which have been loved by children for so long have been lost.
OK, Enid Blyton may have been a racist, but all those kids weren't.
2007-02-05 16:25:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word itself became a derogatory term. If you ever read Blyton, gollies got treated particularly badly too, with terminology reserved for toys of their colour. It was likely a form of inherent racism, not questioned at the time, but becoming increasingly objectionable in more recent times.
2007-02-05 14:45:37 · answer #4 · answered by L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were deemed to be politically incorrect. I have never understood why because effectively it is a black doll, and what is wrong with that? I made one for my daughter and she loved it to bits.
I have seen one or two recently in tourist shops so hopefully they are making a comeback and reason has prevailed.They look so much better than some of the insipid white dolls on the market and are really cute. A child who loves a black doll is less likely to be racist later in life surely.
2007-02-05 14:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I saw a huge one for sale in a dolls shop today. At least a head bigger than Baby Annabel it was.
2007-02-05 14:03:58 · answer #6 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why?
But it definitely says a lot about the minds of the people who banned them, that they think black people look like golliwogs!!
2007-02-05 22:52:12 · answer #7 · answered by andylefty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gollywogs? or do you mean pollywogs? What is a gollywog?
2007-02-05 14:03:19 · answer #8 · answered by justmedrt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they were regarded as racially derogatory.
2007-02-05 15:00:59 · answer #9 · answered by Loxie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they were all stolen off the jam jars
and used on fake passports
2007-02-05 14:16:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋