By Lauredhel on March 21, 2008
Because I couldn’t make this up. Not if I tried.
Struts Runway Magic. It’s a plastic equine! It’s an unfeasibly insubstantial fashion model! It comes in clearly delineated racial types!
It’s – Struts Runway Magic! Now selling at a polymer-soaked femininity indoctrination centre near you.
Struts Sierra!
Struts Sydney!
Struts Rio!
Struts Milan!
[Via Jezebel.]
Posted in consumerism, gender & feminism | Tagged bratz, femininity, girls, stilettos, toys |
Article written by Lauredhel
Lauredhel is an Australian woman and mother with a disability. She blogs about social justice, reproductive justice, freedom from violence, the use and misuse of language, medical science, being disabled, her garden, and whatever else pops into her head.
Lauredhel also blogs at FWD/Forward (feminists with disabilities), scribbles at her personal dreamwidth journal Selective and Arbitrary, and co-moderates Hollaback Australia. She joined Hoyden About Town in 2007.
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