{"id":26101,"date":"2010-08-12T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=26101"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:09:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T09:09:29","slug":"more-sexy-toy-makeovers-lisa-frank-trollz-and-cabbage-patch-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/12\/more-sexy-toy-makeovers-lisa-frank-trollz-and-cabbage-patch-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sexy Toy Makeovers: Lisa Frank, Trollz, and Cabbage Patch Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously we’ve posted on the sexy makeovers recently given to Dora the Explorer<\/a>, Strawberry Shortcake, Holly Hobby<\/a>, and the Sun Maid<\/a>.\u00a0 Here we have three more.<\/p>\n

Lisa Frank<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andy Wright at the SF Weekly<\/em> recently posted<\/a> about a new look for Lisa Frank art.\u00a0 If you’re a woman in your 30s, like me, you probably remember this art vividly.\u00a0 As Wright describes it, it “…was a branded line of school supplies consisting of Trapper Keepers and folders that looked like they were designed by a six-year-old girl on acid.”<\/p>\n

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When I was a kid, Lisa Frank didn’t include any people. But today it appears that they’ve added, well this:<\/p>\n

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Wright: “I have to wonder if little girls actually are more interested in bizarrely proportioned nymphets dressed like sexy hippies than a righteous day-glo tiger cub.”<\/p>\n

Trolls, now Trollz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember Trolls?\u00a0 Growing up, I remember them looking something like this (source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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But apparently now they look like this <\/em>(source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Cabbage Patch Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a vintage Cabbage Patch Kid from 1983 (source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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This is the front page of the website<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

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They still make “Classic” Cabbage Patch Kids, but now they also make “Pop ‘N Style”:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously we’ve posted on the sexy makeovers recently given to Dora the Explorer, Strawberry Shortcake, Holly Hobby, and the Sun Maid.\u00a0 Here we have three more. Lisa Frank Andy Wright at the SF Weekly recently posted about a new look for Lisa Frank art.\u00a0 If you’re a woman in your 30s, like me, you probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,223,55,2099,2093,253,1711,120],"class_list":["post-26101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-objectification","tag-history","tag-toysgames","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26101"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59855,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions\/59855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}