Why do some girls that reach a certain age punish their dolls and subject them to a range of punishments, including decapitation and placing the doll in a microwave oven ??
2007-05-04 08:45:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Because we can. As soon as children learn how to destroy things, they love it. I cut up one of my doll's dresses and tried to make it into a bikini top. It didn't work.
2007-05-04 11:15:20 · answer #1 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jealousy. The dolls remain beautiful and young and have no personal problems. The girls grow up and get pimples, and lots of adolescence problem with siblings, schoolmates, etc.
2007-05-09 07:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by i think so 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw an article about this about a year ago in Newsweek (I think), they described it as a rite of passage, and said it was actually a common thing among younger girls.
honestly, I find it frightening, I did not do that to my dolls.
2007-05-04 15:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by krissy p 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I did this when I started getting sick of playing with Barbies. For me, it was nothing more than a new game to play. My friends did this too. Sometimes when we would play together, it was like we were competing with who could make the craziest looking barbie.
I think we just did this out of boredom, as I am still friends with most of those girls, and we have all grown into very sane, non-violent people.
2007-05-04 16:03:50 · answer #4 · answered by ☭ 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Like everything it is a learning process as well as it probably being an acting out thing. It is best that they get whatever it is out of their system before they become an adult and/or a parent.
2007-05-08 12:46:54 · answer #5 · answered by Bethy4 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They're putting away childish things.
Seems healthier than the endless parade of man-boys on the net who reverently save every toy, cartoon, and habit of their childhhods.
2007-05-05 15:36:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the doll is Bad! Bad Doll!!
2007-05-04 16:00:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Don't know what kind of girls you've been hanging out with but I don't recall any of my sisters doing that and my wife has EVERYONE she's ever owned, trust me , I know, because I've had to move the boxes everytime we've moved. ALL OF THEM.
2007-05-08 17:12:20 · answer #8 · answered by Gardner? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a form of control. If they are not given many options growing up they might turn to something like dall destruction
2007-05-04 15:50:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i never played with dolls in my life..ok maybe once...but that event led to hte breaking of my little sister's first actual china doll..man, do i feel bad?
2007-05-04 23:02:03 · answer #10 · answered by roxygirl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋