Bad Moms Want To Know: Tattoo Barbie

By on October 3, 2011 2 Comments
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Barbie. One word that strikes fear in some Bad Moms hearts while for other Bad Moms it brings back a flood of fond memories of dress-up and make-believe. Who knew Barbie could be so complicated and controversial? Oh who am I kidding, she always has been that way. For a toy based on a German [...]

My Son May Or May Not Be Gay But His Gender Identity Is Probably Commercially-Reinforced

By on November 22, 2010 7 Comments
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So you know that whole NerdyApple story that hit the Internets just after Halloween, wherein a mom defended her son’s freedom to dress up as Daphne from Scooby Doo? I watched the fuss with a bit of bemusement, because it just seemed so not radical to me that a boy would maybe want to dress [...]

Toy Story 3: Featuring Ken’s Fabulous Dream Home

By on April 14, 2010 3 Comments
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It is impossible to calculate the total amount of time that I have spent watching Toy Story and Toy Story 2 and reenacting scenes from both movies. Suffice it to say that, even just calculating the hours spent doing these things since my daughter was born, it’s a lot. That said, when it comes to [...]

Atheist Barbie: Because Godless Children Play With Dolls Too

By on April 13, 2010 2 Comments
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Snack-sized baby (atheists are pedavores!) sold separately.

Bad Moms Love Jon Stewart

By on March 24, 2010 Leave a Comment
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What’s not to love about Jon Stewart? Nothing, that’s what. And if there was even the tiniest speck of doubt in your mind about that, you can put it to rest, because Jon Stewart plays with Barbies, which, in addition to fully validating Katie’s theory that Barbies aren’t so bad, is concrete evidence that he [...]

Hurray For Barbie: Two Snappy New Careers And One Really Bad Typo

By on March 2, 2010 3 Comments
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Barbie. She’s a household name. I had a whole mess of Barbies; I dressed them up, brushed their hair and created lives for them when I was a kid, and I’ll bet that many of you did, too. I always dressed mine in a fancy silver ball gown with red velour hearts on the sleeves, [...]

The Barbie Chainsaw Massacre, If Elsa Peretti Had A Barbie. And A Chainsaw.

By on January 13, 2010 8 Comments

I stated it just last month but it bears repeating: I've given into the entire Barbie phenomenon and bought my kid the one item she begged for consistently. Barbie is in the house. It's been painful, but as I said a few weeks ago, that little bitch inspires my daughter's imagination and makes her happy [...]

Pink Stinks: Or DOES IT?

By on December 14, 2009 8 Comments

A recent article in the Globe and Mail, Pink is the new crack, focused on a British campaign called Pinkstinks. Pinkstinks encourages Brits to boycott the purchase of over-the-top girly toys of the pink, princess, and fairy overload variety that currently inhabit the “pink alley” of toy stores. This was the first time I heard [...]