Toy Advertisements

Today when I look into the toy market, I’d never expect to see some of the toys that I do. Some are just a disgrace, some I just sit back and think what were they thinking, and some are the ones that I would think that are actually decent but when I actually think of it they are still portraying a twisted purpose. I know that me and my class watched endless upon endless toy commercials, we all thought some were just hilarious. After about a week of just laughing and fooling around, some actually got to work and started finding that some of these toys were trying to shape kids mind so they think they have to be just like these toys. An example would be Barbie, these dolls show a girl who is as close to perfect as a human can get.

Girls growing up today face a very difficult time, many watch TV and see these girls on the runway that stand 6 feet and are skinny. There is a very high rate of girls today that are becoming anorexic at a very young age.

40 per cent of 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade girls want to be thinner. And 80 per cent of 10 year olds are worried in case they become fat. In another survey, 70 percent of 6th grade girls surveyed said that their concern about their weight, shape and diet started when they were aged 9-11. In a study of children aged 8-10, approximately 50 per cent of girls said they were unhappy with their size. In a study of girls aged 9-15, more than 50 per cent claimed they exercised to lose weight, nearly 50 per cent claimed they reduced food intake in order to lose weight, and approximately 5 per cent claimed to use their parents’ diet pills or laxatives in order to lose weight.

These statics are enough to make me sick, young girls shouldn’t be trying to lose weight there young bodies aren’t fully grown yet. Their bodies are going through changes and some add-on a few pounds, I agree with exercising  to stay fit not to lose weight at that age, and diet pills are totally out of the question why would they do that to their body. Most don’t know the consequences of what that is doing to their bodies, I don’t think most adults know what they are putting into their bodies either.

For young boys it’s not about losing weight, it’s more about guns and violence. Some toys for young boys are mostly related to fighting and war. If I go to the toy section in Wal-mart and look down the boy isles I would find that most have a buff guy holding a gun, or some relation to fighting. There are also that deal with physical violence such as UFC fighting and MMA. I know lots of young boys watch these on TV with either their dads or brothers, and will try out their moves on commercial breaks or after. I can’t even count of many times I’ve been at my Grandma’s and watched my cousins ‘grapple’ each other or try to ‘pin’ each other down and make them ‘tap out’. 

Both boys and girls are effected by these toys. I don’t know if parents or people who buy these toys for them see what they are actually buying, but there has been more and more young people taking guns to school or bingeing. It is a serious problem that our world is facing today we need to teach the younger generation more about violence and eating disorders.  They need to see the outcomes of what both of these do to themselves and to the people around them.