Thursday, October 26, 2006
Tesco Bab(i)es
A friend pointed it out to me that Tesco's have developed and marketed a line of educational toys for women to be (say the ages of 3-9). The flagship of their products is the Peekaboo pole Dancing Kit. The box says: "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!" and "Soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars".
Now isn't this special? The toddlers not only learn how to dance in a sexy way but also how to use their undeveloped sexuality to earn a little dosh. Why didn't they have this when I was a kid? I used to play with boring stuff like super annoying dolls that peed and cried (no wonder I don't have any kids) and miniture ironing boards (no wonder I only shop wrinkle-free clothes).
The stuff I enjoyed the most were my Playmobil knights and Lego's although I quite often played with Barbie dolls (that was mostly about dressing the blonde bombshells in ridiculous outfits that I designed from mum's strange looking fabrics from the time she actually did some knitting). Bloody hell, my parents should have caught on at that stage and realized that I would never become Betty Homemaker.
Who knows what could have happened had there been a Tesco store in Iceland when I was a kid; you know a store with educational stuff for little women. I might have become an exotic dancer with loads of money in my knickers (or do they come off as well when strippers erm strip?).
Yeah, the ever so friendly folks at Tesco's sure want to help little girls get over silly ideas of becoming academics and such. Academics aren't the right material for swinging their bums round and round while spinning less than dressed on a pole. I mean, in which hand would one hold Foucault and how can one read him while going in circles up and down...
I'm feeling dizzy already.
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