Uh...this looks like a conservatively dressed youngster... I was thinking I was going to see a real ghetto slut or something.
Posted on 03/16/2009 12:16:42 PM PDT by presidio9
I’m completely unfamiliar with the character, except for what I have read here.
-It sounds like the creators are starting the dumbing down process at an early age. (or maybe she is just the product of already dumbed-down people).
-I wasnt sure if that was the before or after picture, so i guess it’s not so bad.
Apparently, she will become “Dora the Shopper”.
Really, really boring....
Yeah, exactly... It’s merely a shirt. Which means that Dora is wearing nothing but tights for pants. Put a skirt on her and it would be less problemmatic.
>> Nik and Disney are the devil to young kids....
Really? They (particularly Disney) are pretty popular in my house. My daughter watched Dora a little, but prefers the Little Einsteins. I don’t really see any problem with either.
SnakeDoc
So, Dora was just a “L.U.G.”?
I think you mean:
Swim across rivery river
Then go across deserty desert
My problem with Dora is that she’s constantly code-switching. They figure it’s fun for kids and it gets them wanting to learn a foreign language, but it completely destroys literacy.
LOL! I remember pi$$ing off my ex when I’d sing MY version of her theme song.
I won’t post my lyrics, but you’d get the idea...
I’ve noticed that many (most) of the new cartoon characters have souht-of-the-border accents. Handy Manny, for one. Made me wonder if small Anglo kids are going to be speaking with an accent now. Not saying that’s good or bad - just saying -
Glad I’m not only one who has thought of that.
Nice to see her creators were able to purchase some facial reconstruction for her. Now that poor girl won’t have to go around looking like Stewie Griffin’s long-lost half-sister with the football-shaped head.
>> Which means that Dora is wearing nothing but tights for pants.
They’re not tights — they’re slightly shortened pants. They’re far longer than even the most conservative pair of shorts. Like I said, my daughter has several outfits just like that— and they’re not at all revealing. They’re cotton pants.
SnakeDoc
Wait till they get about 12.....
how about “Twamp” ?
... and no, that's not my daughter.
SnakeDoc
Looks fine to me, and I’m a pretty picky about these things.
That show is about as PC as one can get. I think just about every ethnicity (save middle-eastern) has been depicted. The only white males are either depicted as disabled, or as poofters.
I hadn’t seen two G’Daughters for a year — when they were 6ish, 7ish. (they live across the country) When they came for Christmas a year back, I had bought a couple pair of Dora slipper sox as one of their gifts. These girls were now close to ages 8 and 9 -— and you should have heard the squeals when they opened the slippers! I was still living in the past, when girls were little girls until their tweens! Little did I know that they were into Hanna and her ilk!! “We’re not little kids any more, G.Ma!!!”
Well, that was all I needed. I fixed the slipper mistake, but when they went home, I packed a couple of Dora cookies in their suitcase. More squeals when they found them! And when I sent Valentine cards, I pasted Dora pictures over Hannah’s face! These kids are going to hate me!
When I saw them a few weeks ago, I hid a couple of cute trinket gifts behind my back and they could only get them if they said they LOVED Dora. They said it and got the gifts. Then the devil in me went further. I had a couple more trinkets but they had to promise me that they would wear Dora costumes that I would sent them for Halloween — and I had to see pictures of them in them. They swallowed hard and promised. When they went home, there were a couple more hidden Dora cookies in their bag. (am I a terrible granny? Yep!)
But now, they can see that G’ma is on top of it, with this new Dora coming out! New respect?
What can I do now?
That's "sexed-up"?
Complaints must have been from some Muslim moms who want an older Dora to be seen only in a full Hijab.
I didn't know stretch pants qualified as "sexed-up". What does that make shorts?
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