Video player not working?0:000:000:00SettingsQualityAutoAudioSpeed1×CaptionsOffBratz Dolls Give Girls Unrealistic Expectation Of Head SizeDula TVFunny videos since 2008Thumbs up0Thumbs down0 Share1.6K views Jan 2009A fake news report claims Bratz dolls' oversized heads promote poor body image, then ends with an anchor delivering a crude joke about a Lexus recall. Show transcript0:06If you have a daughter, it's likely you're familiar with Bratz, the must-have doll for the under 10 set.0:12But could these toys be promoting an unhealthy body image among young girls due to their unrealistically large heads?0:20Here's Jean Anne Wharton to take us beyond the facts.0:31Since their launch in 2001, Bratz dolls have been flying off the shelves.0:36They're fun, they're fashionable, and their heads are enormous.0:41According to gender equality advocate Melissa Waters, even though these dolls can't talk, they're sending young girls a message about their bodies.0:50What girls are taking away from this is that in order to be beautiful, you need to have a head that's twice the size of your torso.0:56Melissa isn't alone in her concerns. Yvonne Gray gave her daughter Shayla her first brats for Christmas last year.1:05Now she wishes she hadn't.1:07I want to be a good parent. I want her to feel good about herself, about her head.1:12I mean, we we all want to be the woman with, uh, the head out to here, but at some point you have to say that you're OK with your little head and be OK with having a nose.1:23Shayla says nearly everyone her age owns a Bratz doll.1:27So, Shayla, tell me, what do you and your friends like about Bratz dolls?1:32Well, we think that they have really cool clothes1:35Mm-hmm.1:35and that they're pretty.1:37And do you think you're as pretty as them?1:40No, I don't because I have a really small head.1:44The Brats are depicted as having fun lives, shopping, dancing, and playing sports, but what isn't shown is how difficult it would be to do any of those things with an enormous cranium.1:56If you make a Bratz doll human height, the circumference of her skull would be 5 and a half feet.2:00She wouldn't be able to lift her head, and the sheer weight of it would crush her spine, rendering this so-called cool girl bedridden for life.2:08Waters organization is spreading their message through school programs and a national ad campaign.2:13Their goal is to reach preteen girls now and avoid dangerous consequences later.2:20We really have to teach girls that any size head is beautiful.2:24Otherwise, they're going to be in a plastic surgeon's office at 23 asking for cranial implants or collagen injections in their scalps.2:31Regardless of Water's warning, the demand for Bratz dolls continues to grow, along with parents' concerns.2:38I've, I've actually seen Shayla trying things, um, just the other day I, I saw her hitting herself in the face with a book to try to get her head to swell.2:49Am I going to walk into her room and, and find her with a hammer to her head?2:53I, I, I just don't know anymore. A doll shouldn't make a girl feel bad about herself.2:58But for millions of girls like Shayla, that message isn't getting through.3:03From Beyond the Facts, I'm Jean Anne Horton.3:07Thank you, Jean Anne, for that. It's sad how our society is so focused on the size of women's heads.3:13In business news, Lexus is recalling their top of the line LS 460, saying the car's airbags could deploy mid blow job.3:20Blow job.
