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Old 06-23-2015, 01:28 PM
 
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A real person in perfect size


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jue_JlxnPGM

Before adults and society brainwash our kids, they are often really smart and realistic. I am not saying there would not be tall skinny people etc. (as barbie type) also but most of the judgements are learnt from adults. Adults teach kids and ruin kids to think bad things and expect unrealist appearance from others.

Range of dolls with disabilities launches after social media campaign for more diverse toys goes viral | Daily Mail Online

Instead teaching kids to measure every mm http://www.biomedsearch.com/attachme...02106.g001.jpg and looking for unperfect signs from others, why not teach and fyi for adults: learn as an adult too to accept that people are perfect and real in every appearance that they exist?
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Old 06-23-2015, 10:58 PM
 
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Instead teaching kids to measure every mm http://www.biomedsearch.com/attachme...02106.g001.jpg and looking for unperfect signs from others, why not teach and fyi for adults: learn as an adult too to accept that people are perfect and real in every appearance that they exist?
I think it's better to teach your children to aspire to perfection rather than settle for whatever. That doesn't mean you have to be judgmental of people who don't share your drive, but just being happy with who you are means you have no reason to learn, change, grow, or improve. So I'm not going to show my kids a picture of a turd and tell them it's a beautiful rose.

All things in moderation, of course, because being too focused on perfection will turn them into neurotic wrecks. So we're supposed to somehow chart a course between creating self-satisfied couch potatoes and obsessive-compulsive ultra-marathoners.

However, "real" dolls/models/etc falls in the category of a bridge too far, for me.
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Old 06-25-2015, 10:27 AM
 
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A real person in perfect size


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jue_JlxnPGM

Before adults and society brainwash our kids, they are often really smart and realistic. I am not saying there would not be tall skinny people etc. (as barbie type) also but most of the judgements are learnt from adults. Adults teach kids and ruin kids to think bad things and expect unrealist appearance from others.

Range of dolls with disabilities launches after social media campaign for more diverse toys goes viral | Daily Mail Online

Instead teaching kids to measure every mm http://www.biomedsearch.com/attachme...02106.g001.jpg and looking for unperfect signs from others, why not teach and fyi for adults: learn as an adult too to accept that people are perfect and real in every appearance that they exist?
These kids uttered so many "like" I had to close it.
It pretty much made it impossible for me to care about what they really thought of the real doll vs. the "unreal" doll, etc.

Somebody please save this generation from the terror of "like".
It's so annoying it makes you want to scream.
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Old 06-25-2015, 11:04 AM
 
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These kids uttered so many "like" I had to close it.
It pretty much made it impossible for me to care about what they really thought of the real doll vs. the "unreal" doll, etc.

Somebody please save this generation from the terror of "like".
It's so annoying it makes you want to scream.
I like these kids I believe they could bring back caring, happiness and liking each others into this cold world.
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Old 06-25-2015, 11:06 AM
 
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I think it's better to teach your children to aspire to perfection rather than settle for whatever. That doesn't mean you have to be judgmental of people who don't share your drive, but just being happy with who you are means you have no reason to learn, change, grow, or improve. So I'm not going to show my kids a picture of a turd and tell them it's a beautiful rose.

All things in moderation, of course, because being too focused on perfection will turn them into neurotic wrecks. So we're supposed to somehow chart a course between creating self-satisfied couch potatoes and obsessive-compulsive ultra-marathoners.

However, "real" dolls/models/etc falls in the category of a bridge too far, for me.

How sad, unrealistic and unempathic prejudices by looks. Why do you think you have so limited view and so much prejudices?
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Old 06-25-2015, 12:50 PM
 
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I like these kids I believe they could bring back caring, happiness and liking each others into this cold world.
They will have a lot of "liking" to practice with 8 billions+ projected for 2030.

Caring and liking each other doesn't come from PC projects designed to make kids appreciate "real world" bodies as opposed to idealized ones.

It comes from a sense of solidarity and needing one other. Increasingly, humans no longer need each other - emotionally speaking.
They compete with each other (fiercely) for increasingly limited resources. The masters need humans to cooperate in corporate-type teams to get jobs done; but that doesn't mean love for your fellow human.

I, for one, would be happy enough if someone taught them how to speak.
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