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Gizmodo Pole Dancing Doll

February 15, 2012 by · Comments Off on Gizmodo Pole Dancing Doll 

Gizmodo Pole Dancing DollGizmodo Pole Dancing Doll, Batteries and dollar bills not included. A grainy Internet photo of an alleged new toy for girls has parents in a tizzy – “Pole Dance,” a doll that, well, dances around a pole. Like a stripper.

In the photo, which first appeared on gadget blog Gizmodo.com, the box for the toy depicts a cherubic, brunette doll in a shiny green dress, clutching a pole with a disco ball on top while standing on a small stage that says “Pole Dancer.”

The simple graphics on the box include the words “Style,” “Flash” “Up and Down” “Go Round and Round” and “Music.”

Whether or not it’s a hoax or a sign of the apocalypse, posters on parenting Web site parentdish.com were aghast over the suggestive doll sending a horrible message to young girls.

“Can you say dieing (sic) civilization. NEXT!!,” read one post. Said another: “It does look pretty real . but it just seems too over the top to be real! I just can’t believe someone would go that far . well, then again, maybe I can.”

A writer for Gizmodo.com told parentdish.com that the new doll is likely authentic – and probably came from Asia.

“As far as I can tell, it’s a real product,” said Gizmodo.com’s Jesus Diaz. “It didn’t seem Photoshopped to me. It feels more like the typical Chinese-made product you can only find in low cost stores.”

Pole Dancing Doll A Hoax

February 15, 2012 by · Comments Off on Pole Dancing Doll A Hoax 

Pole Dancing Doll A Hoax, For the last few days, the interwebs has come alive with the sound of parental indignation — all because of this grainy camera-phone snapshot,

Oh, look, Mommy! A stripper starter-kit for the pre-K set! The pic’s originator, Gizmodo.com, can’t definitively verify that the doll is in fact real, or available in the U.S.

But either way, are we really so surprised? The scene in 2004?s Mean Girls when high-school queen bee Regina’s little sister pumped her tiny grade-school booty to Kelis’s salacious hit “Milkshake” was meant to be satirical; these days, it feels increasingly real.

From Miley Cyrus’s infamous pole-assisted gyrations at the recent Teen Choice Awards to club-ready clothing lines for grade-schoolers like Beyonce’s Dereon Girls, it seems that pop culture is constantly fighting to shorten or even obliterate an ever-briefer age of innocence.

But you tell me, PopWatchers, do I sound like a consumer-advocate Andy Rooney here? Or is this doll really so inconceivable?

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