New Line of Dolls with Disabilities

[sinisterporpoise]

 http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a40588/makies-dolls/

Yes, I understand that the custom toy maker should respond to customer demands. I do not fault them for giving into the demands of their customers. What I am having a hard time with is I find this idea horrific and I can't really explain why. As someone who grew up during the 80s and who was assigned male at birth, the closest thing we had to this were the Starscream action and Destro action figures.  

Comments

[silk_dragon_zen]

Ah, I hadn't been thinking in the direction of rule 34. On the other hand, there are many disabled people who want their sexual partners to be attracted to them not despite their disabilities, but want their partners to be attracted to them as a whole, including their disabilities as part of who they are.

But sheesh, we're talking about dolls for kids here, so rule 34 doesn't even remotely apply (except maybe in the way that, alas, rule 34 might apply to “abled” dolls, too: a doll fetish or something. *sigh*).

[sinisterporpoise]

Now you see why I didn't want to go down that road.