I can’t tell you how glad I am to see this!

Not only is a doll like this needed on U.S. toy shelves, perched right next to those nasty bottle-guzzling dolls, but more variety of baby dolls in general is needed in the U.S. anyway, to encourage a kinder-gentler American culture toward motherhood.

Of course it’s wonderful to give our daughters so many science and engineering toys, but we are short changing them in being ready for normal family relationships by, on average, unwittingly cutting back in passing on what were traditionally considered “girl’s” interests.   And the truth is, whether culturally ready or not, most little girls grow up to be women who give birth at least once.   Don’t get me wrong – toy companies know how to financially exploit girls’ & boys’ innate interests,  or they wouldn’t set up segregated pink and army green aisles, to make small children scream and cry for toys every time you bring them into such places.  But they are also imposing multiple racially provocative cultural statements, with the easy availability of non-white baby dolls, and the appaulling scarcity of white baby dolls.

A couple of years  ago I tried to buy a mid-summer baby doll to use in a convention exhibit.  I thought simple, I’ll just waltze into Toys-R-Us and pick one up. Nothing doing!  Do you know how difficult it is to buy a ordinary baby doll for white girls in the United States?  They had Hispanic, black, & Asian baby dolls, but not a single white baby doll to be had in the whole massive store.  White girls, so far still the majority ethnicity in the U.S. , if they want any dolls at all, are consigned to a pile of ugly Bratz and other distorted and self-absorbed, tatooed & blinging, fashionista dolls with motorcycle helmets.    So rather than wait until Christmas-time, the only time the toy industry will break the embargo against little  white girls having baby dolls,  I was forced to resort to ordering one online through Amazon.

But no WONDER we have such a culture gap between the races in the U.S. .  Now WONDER we are having such trouble now getting breastfeeding normalized in the public square, having to change laws to do it, since changing hearts to do it is so slow.  Culturally we are still struggling with even recognizing what is normal mothering behavior, rather than sexualizing anything to do with babies or breasts, and the U.S. toy industry is little help.

Bebé Glotón right now is only available in Spain, where the little girls are majority white European descent.   I sincerely hope it makes it to the U.S. toy store shelves, not only in its usual boy/girl versions, but in all the races too.  I would also like to recommend that the little Spanish Bebé Glotón learn some happy cooing sounds, or little girls will think that all breastfeeding babies do is emit a nasty cry and burp.   The little girl in the video looked visibly stressed by the loud crying, and visibly relieved to pick it up and hug it and burp it.   A little truth and happiness should be injected into this scenario…

…because we all know a breastfed baby is a happier healthier baby!   …and a little pro-lactin goes a long way toward a happier healthier mother