That Super-Scary Breastfeeding Doll is Back:

Or, at least the media seems to have remembered it exists. Again. I'm fairly sure they all had this exact same tantrum when the doll was first marketed about two years ago. Or, Mumsnet lives in some weird sort of time vacuum where we discuss things two years before the media does [or the week before in the case of Matthew Wright and his lazy researchers]. 

So, let's just review the situation once again: it's a doll which simulates breastfeeding. It does not encourage satan worship. The doll does not come with its own machete or sub-machine gun. It does not recite Mein Kampf or Fifty Shades of Grey. It is just a doll like countless others on the market with the sole exception of not coming with a bottle.

Personally, as this lovely Facebook graphic suggests, I am far more concerned about the sexualisation of children through Monster High dolls. I'm concerned about Tescos who sold pole dancing kits. For children. I am concerned about W.H Smith and Argos selling Playboy branded items for children.

A doll which simulates breastfeeding is lovely. Pole dancing kits for children: an actual problem.