Take on the dolls

What the hell ever happened to a normal doll for a girl? TOR tries to stick to topics which our full readership can relate to, so we mostly avoid too much talk about baby-stuff but when we come across an egregious situation; it is our journalistic duty to report. The TOR staff spent an hour at the local toy-store with the thought of picking up a dark-skinned doll for my niece and the nice Toys R Us employee sent us on our way to the doll section so you'd think I'd be in and out of there in 20 minutes but life is never that easy.
But sometime between the time my sister was playing with dolls and 2011, the world flipped on its head, there are literally thousands of dolls at Toys-R-Us and each one does something special. Some dance, some cry, some talk but they all suck. In the entire Toy R Us category there is no such thing as a normal doll anymore, I guess the competition has gotten so fierce that unless it comes with some gimmick or trick the toy stores won't even stock them. The most ridiculous ones are the ones that cry until you feed them and then they wet their diapers, so it's like having a real kid -that is if you are OK with your kid being made in China.
I guess a one-year old needs to have a doll that burps, farts and shits because that is all this country has become, we're a couch society and we don't allow our kids to have an imagination anymore. Kids watch TV and play video-games, they don't seem to make castles out of pillows, make mud-pies and play house so why make a doll that doesn't do anything because god-forbid they kid's gotta use his imagination.
I don't know who decided that toddlers can't just play with normal toys anymore but I'm sure that this 'technology' is really not only not necessary but probably damaging.

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