Womb for improvement

First we had stilettos for babies, plush booties with high heels for the budding Carrie Bradshaw.

Heelarious, right?

Okay, so nobody says you have to buy them, even as a ''cute'' jokey baby shower gift which is where I first saw them on a four-month old.

Lots of ooohs and ahhhhs from the other women there.

But now it gets worse:

Here come Baby Bangs, beaded  and decorated toupees for your bald infant girls.

They're designed ''to  enhance their natural beauty.''

I kid you not.

Bad enough little girls get hooked on the multi-billion-dollar-feel-bad-about-your-body industry by the time they can say ''Barbie.'' Now they're getting girls before they can even walk or talk?

What's next? Female fetus spas? Embryo boob jobs?

Am I losing my sense of humour here?

Via Sociological Images.

UPPITY WOMAN DATE: Twitter Tweep Monica Rooney just twigged me on to Baby Toupees, for both boys and girls, plus sites for dogs and cats.

The thing about Baby Bangs is, as Sociological Images points out, that it's all about making a girl baby look more girly.

Can't we leave the kids alone for a few years?

Comments

[Paul]

Self-parody. A little while back Saturday Night Live featured a skit with thong diapers.

[MJM]

That Baby Toupee looks quite unsafe--choking/strangling hazard?

[Sebastian Stoker]

Over twenty years ago, SNL showed a feature short called Babes in Makeup.

Parents are sending a clear message, that they do not consider their kids good enough - and in need of work - even in infancy. And when the kid is 15, has cut marks, an eating disorder and says she hates them, the parents will wonder how she got so screwed up.

[...pat.]

bad enough that it's Baby Bangs -- it's a comb-over! it requires hairspray. HAIRSPRAY. Oh, now that's healthy.

[Kat]

This makes me want to make a line of onesies and baby t-shirts saying, "This is not a toy."

I mean, okay, dressing up babies is fun. I'm guilty of making a few Raw Chicken Viking Hats in my time (http://alohamedia.net/sarah/hats/chicken-viking/), although in my defence, one of them was for an adult who was a very good sport. But when you start confusing babies with angels, cherubs, "it" girls, or any other "pedestal" sorts of imagery, you're in for some trouble.