Sunday, September 25, 2011
ONN's sarcasm this time finds a new target: parents and feminists who are oversensitive about the effect of today's consumerist culture on our young women. However, ONN may not want to get too far with this kind of subtle sarcasm, because the audience may not always be able to appreicate the humor. For some people the video could actually convey the exact message it is intended to contradict.
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I personally believe that the mass media turns every little thing into something HUGE. Its A Toy.. Onn was only able to show one little girl who wanted her head to be larger where are the rest?
ReplyDeleteI agree that this shouldn't have become such a big deal. I actually found it hard to take this video seriously because it seemed comical at times. Of course, the fact that a girl was trying to hurt herself to make her head bigger is not funny at all. However, I think most people can figure out that a normal person's spine wouldn't be able to support such a huge head without taking the time to study the proportions of a Bratz doll.
ReplyDeleteThis is a completely new way of looking at the controversy of dolls for me. Many times people say that dolls cause girls to want to be taller, bigger chested, or have a smaller waist; I have never heard of someone wanting a bigger head to match their doll. I believe this video is a little comical because I cannot fathom this idea of wanting a bigger head. I do believe dolls create an image that younger girls try to portray; so, maybe all dolls need to have body measurements that are proportional to an average healthy human. It is terrible to think that we would have to regulate something like this though.
ReplyDeleteI could not take this video seriously. I agree that girls want to portray the image that their dolls show, but I do not think that head size is a factor that influences them. I thought that this video would suggest that Bratz are influencing young girls to wear inappropriate clothes or make-up at a young age. I think that the public should be more concerned with the clothing choice of the dolls than the size of the dolls head. I found it hard to see ONN as a credible source after watching this video. If this was such a large problem then I think that they could have found more than one young girl to interview.
ReplyDeleteI think the ONN gave me a fresh view about the dolls because they thought the Brat's bigger head could even infulence the young gilrs and make them feel furstrated. The dolls can affect younger girls on the clothes or the good shapes, which is definetly corrtect. However, they should do a further study about the infulence of head's size on the young girls if this is a big serious problem rather than just giving little information about this.
ReplyDeleteSome little girls have really no idea about how to judge the real beauty. I think schools should educate them, but, our society should have more duty to give them the good environment. All the fashion shows imply us beauty equals thin bodies, not the healthy. I heard a news happened in my high school: a girl, in order to "attract" her boyfriend, refuse to eat food for 4days, and at last, sent into the hospital.
ReplyDeleteThis video is extremely interesting in the way that it uses satirical and sarcastic tools to raise a point of extreme prominence in society. The hilarious part about this video, is that it demonstrates directly the believability and blindness people have to completely ridiculous trends. This video is raising the point that society, but specifically young girls, will go to any extent to fit and be considered cool. However, this video is sarcastic and hilarious in the way that it exaggerates the point, making the common issue about body aesthetics, about head size. On top of that, the video proves its point my actually making viewers believe that the 'head size issue' is actually a serious issue in society. Definitely girls and woman in general are constantly battling body image, due to unfair ideals, however head-size has never been a very common, if present at all, problem. Therefore, the stupidity and blindness of society is shown and again proven by the content and tools this video uses.
ReplyDeleteThe issue in this video seems quite unbelievable. People might believe this to be a significant issue in the society, but I refuse to believe any such thing. There are not many instances of where girls are looking up to these dolls and complaining about their head sizes. One girl with such a problem does not mean that our society should start worrying about young girls and their head sizes. With that being said, I think that these kind of dolls do convey an awful message for the young girls in the society. The importance these dolls put on the looks and body is just ridiculous. These girls just become obsessed with their body and looks which leads them to make terrible decisions in the future.
ReplyDeleteI find it very hard to believe that this video is actually trying to be serious. I do not believe at all that these little girls admire Bratz dolls for having large heads. On the other hand, Bratz dolls and others of that kind are contributing to the downward spiral of the confidence girls have in their bodies. The companies should make body proportions more accurate and normal because if the girls of the generation that play with them get used to it then there most likely will be an increase in eating disorders. I think that these dolls are ridiculous and the young girls don't actually want their heads to be bigger.
ReplyDeleteI think no matter this clip is real or not, the issue discussed could be serious and deserves public attention. The Bratz Dolls may be misleading to young girls who have not build up their aethestic standard. Although we as adults can quickly figure it out that bigger heads doesn't mean beauty (and that huge heads don't even exist), young kidss may not. It is the doll producer's responsibility to convey and clarify what is real beauty to their young customers.
ReplyDeleteI found this clip to be extremely surprising. The idea that there are girls hurting themselves in order to enlarge their heads is bizarre. The media has always expressed how dolls lead young girls to have unrealistic ideas about beauty. However, it’s hard to believe that girls could really desire such a large, disproportionate head. Suddenly, the idea instilled in me by my childhood dolls, a thinner waist, doesn’t seem so impossible.
ReplyDeleteI find this video interesting, not only in the fact that young girls are that impressionable to where they would try to distort their own appearance, but also that this issue is trying to portrayed as serious. I find it idiotic that someone with common sense would try to make their head bigger by hurting themselves. I can see why people would want to dress like a doll because most of the time they are fashionable, but the head size goes way overboard. I do not think this should be an issue at all and I bet there is such a minute and small percentage of the population that actually does this. I think the dolls are fine.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy how satirical the onion's videos are and this is no exception. While young girl's self esteem is a serious issue, I don't think this is crossing the line at all. It's just another jab at human nature which is what most onion videos focus on. That's why I personally like the ONN, its just their way of making us laugh at ourselves.
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