was the first thing I saw when I walked into Toy "R" Us/Babies "R" Us to get my son a little umbrella stroller. And when I say first thing, I mean it was a maze of Twilight paraphanlia you had to wander through in order to find the real toys, like trains and baby dolls. What in the world does a child need a shirtless teenage doll for? And worse, why is a movie/book series geared toward YOUNG ADULTS the first thing you have to see when you walk into a toy store?? What kind of message does that send? To make matters worse, when I went looking for the picture online of the doll, you could search by 'age', and ol shirtless Jacob came up under the youngest search, 5-7 years old, because werewolves and vamprires are apparently appropraite for that age group.
Now, I realize this has absolutely nothing to do with anything else on this blog, but I am an English major, and I can make it all pull together. In a world where I am searching for simple, beautiful things, it upsets me that young children are subjected to things that are in fact not simple, or beautiful. Boom!
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