The Huffington Post offers it’s suggestions for the worst kids’ products available right now.

Pole Dancing Doll

Because dancing on poles is adorable.

Shave The Baby

Is this really how they want kids to learn about pubic hair?

Kid’s Nipple Tassel T-Shirt

(for more inappropriate kids’ shirts, see Terrible T’s)

Breast-Feeding Doll

For the prepubescent girls who just can’t wait to breast feed.

Baby Stilettos

Because all girls should be obsessed with shoes, even if they can’t walk yet.

Stuffed STDs

Nothing quite like snuggling up to Chlamydia during nap time.

Toy Tattoo Gun

Because it’s a habit you need to develop early.

Source:

Thanks to Michelle from California for this article!

“The 7 Most Inappropriate Products For Children” (Alex Leo) The Huffington Post. September 14, 2009

Rachel Simmons, author of best-seller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, has followed up with her latest, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. The first book addressed societal pressure on girls to always be sweet and nice, which represses powerful emotions, especially anger. That’s why the aggression winds up “hidden,” expressed indirectly and passively.

The books chronicle years of Simmons’ research, including case studies and informal exercises with young girls. “A really great exercise,” she says, “is to ask girls to sit the way a typical guy sits and then ask girls to sit the way a typical girl sits. And you will see two completely different postures. Guys have way more permission to take up space in every sense of that phrase. There just aren’t the same rules as there are for women, and that’s going to lead to a different consciousness and a different set of concerns.”

The problem isn’t confined to American society, either. “The very first countries to translate Odd Girl Out were all Asian,” Simmons says. “I think that there is a huge, huge indirect aggression problem in Asia. It has to do with the Asian culture’s very inflexible expectations of women and girls.”

The Curse continues meditation on this trend of suppression, and takes it a step further to advise parents on how to raise their daughters differently. By letting them be honest about their full range of emotions, however unpleasant, we can guide them out of mean-girl culture and into well-adjusted womanhood.

Source:

“When Being a Good Girl is a Bad Thing” (Frances Romero) Time Magazine Online. August 31, 2009

Here, we take a look at suggestive shirts available for toddlers, kids and teens.

TODDLERS

Cotton on Kids
Negative reactions to this line caused Cotton on Kids to discontinue it.
To read more about the dispute, check out Articles [1], [2] or [3].

“My dad poked your mom” Deek’s Digs / “Future Trophy Wife”: Shirts 4 Squirts

Deek’s Digs / T-shirt Hell : Does the font have to be made of penises, too?

“I’m this Many” / “I enjoy a good spanking”
(Clothing Company Unknown)

“I’m proof my mom likes to fuck“: Offensive T’s

KIDS

“Horny, Twenty-Four-Seven” & “Future Trophy Wife”: Zazzle.com

“Peanutbutter Motherfucker”: Artist Jim Shaw made this limited edition t-shirt in 1996, via DefectiveWear.com

“Little Losers” line, JayJays

“Mr. Agro
Mr. Pimp
Mr. Asshole
Miss Gold Digger
Miss Wasted
Mr. Drunk
Miss Floozy
Miss Bitch
Mr. Well-Hung”

Nipple Tassel T-shirt for Tots, Twisted Twee
See the article where the fashion designer defends this shirt.

ABERCROMBIE KIDS

You’d never know this site is for kids.

Abercrombie Kids Homepage

“Fun” for kids to be flirting already?

Fleece that gives kids a cute butt… because they should be worrying about that.

The only denim skirts are miniskirts. (As of the Fall 2009 Line)

TEENS

Judging by the stores and/or the young models, these clothes are assumed to be targeted at teens.

“Freshman 15″, with 15 guys’ names: Pandagon
Check out the review of this product, at Feministing.com

Zazzle.com / TshirtHell.com

“Kiss my ass, It’s Irish”: Uniqwear / Hollister

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH (again)

A&F came under fire in 2005 for their “Attitude Shirt” line for teens. A “Girlcott” was launched by the Women & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania. As a result, Abercrombie discontinued some of the items. [6]

Here are the shirts in question:

“I need (a girl with a) good head (on her shoulders)” / ”Who needs brains when you have these?”

…by first looking at my chest to read this.

“Show the Twins”
“Female Students Wanted for Sexual Research”
“Buck Fuddy”
“Math Tutor + Bed – Clothes ÷ Your Legs = Anatomy Lesson”

Sources:

[1] “Cotton on Kids’ Risque T-shirt Slogans Under Attack” (Cheryl Critchley) News.com Australia. July 22, 2009
[2] “Cotton On Vows to Withdraw Offensive T-Shirts” (Stephen Lunn) The Australian. August 14, 2009
[3] “Cotton On Hit by Social Media Backlash – What Are the Lessons for Your Business” (Patrick Stafford) SmartCompany.com. August 17, 2009
[4] “Designer Defends Nipple Tassels on Tots T-Shirt” (Tom Henderson) ParentDish.com. August 18, 2009
[5] Abercrombie Kids
[6] A&F Girlcott Incident – Wikipedia
[7] Cotton on Kids
[8] Deek’s Digs
[9] Shirts 4 Squirts
[10] T-shirt Hell
[11] Offensive T’s
[12] Zazzle.com
[13] DefectiveWear.com
[14] Twisted Twee
[15] JayJays
[16] Hollister
[17] Pandagon
[18] Uniqwear