Last year, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind bald Barbie doll for a four-year-old girl who lost her hair due to cancer. An online campaign has now started urging the toy maker to mass produce the doll for girls who suffer from hair loss.

The Facebook Group, “Beautiful and Bald Barbie! Let’s see if we can get it made,” has more than 13,000 likes. The group writes:

“We would like to see a Beautiful and Bald Barbie made to help young girls who suffer from hair loss due to cancer treatments, Alopecia or Trichotillomania . Also, for young girls who are having trouble coping with their mother’s hair loss from chemo. Many children have some difficulty accepting their mother, sister, aunt, grandparent or friend going from a long haired to a bald.”

The group says that in addition to the bald Barbie, Mattel could also offer accessories like head scarves and hats.

Tracey Kidd, whose four-year-old daughter Ruby is being treated for cancer, told the Digital Journal:

“There’s so much emphasis, especially on little girls, on their hair and how they (cancer kids) look. It’s important for them to feel good, especially in hospital.”

Mattel recently created a Katy Perry barbie doll and a Nicki Minaj barbie doll to benefit various charities. The toy company also created a tattoo barbie doll to appeal to a new generation of more progressive girls. Asking for a bald barbie doesn’t seem to be asking all that much.

Do you think Mattel will create a bald barbie? Should they?

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The latest Barbie doll comes with tattoos across her left arm, neck and chest, something that has apparently prompted an outrage amongst parents. Because hey, Barbie was always such an amazing role model for young girls.

The new, limited edition Barbie is the work of Mattel and Italy-based brand Tokidoki and sells for $50. She sports a pink bob, leopard print leggings, a dog called ‘Bastardino’ and tattoos. Supposedly, this has invited the wrath of parents across the land.

Yet are the irate parents really out there, or are they a media fabrication?

Well, they do exist. But this Daily Mail piece resorts to hunting around obscure websites for “tweenage” girls, just to locate a negative opinion about Barbie’s new body art. None of the usual ‘experts’ are wheeled out to offer an opinion, and that’s probably because – like the rest of us – they don’t see this as A Big Deal.

This greater acceptance of an inked Barbie is probably down to the fact Mattel has already manufactured a tatted Barbie. In 1999, Butterfly Art Barbie was withdrawn from stores after parents complained. In 2009, the company released Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie, a doll with removable sticker tattoos that some people found a tittersome use for. When people complained about the latter, Mattel stuck to its guns.

In the case of 2009 Barbie, the Mail at least trotted out a so-called expert who droned a bit about how childrens’ play habits were becoming sexualized. But in 2011, nobody with a brain still located on Earth seriously believes a doll with tattoos is an issue.

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Manufacturer of assorted children’s items Fisher Price is recalling more than 10 million of their products (list below) due to manufacturing flaws that have resulted in injury requiring medical attention to at least seven children.

Products recalled span furniture to infant and children’s toys and hazards include choking and scarily, “genital bleeding.” A list of recalled items includes:

About 7 million Fisher Price Trikes and Tough Trikes toddler tricycles

About 950,000 Healthy Care, Easy Clean and Close to Me High Chairs

About 100,000 Fisher-Price Little People Wheelies Stand ‘n Play Rampway

About 2.8 million Baby Playzone Crawl & Cruise Playground, Baby Playzone Crawl & Slide Arcade, Baby Gymnastics Play Wall, Ocean Wonders Kick & Crawl Aquarium (C3068 and H8094), 1-2-3 Tetherball, Bat & Score Goal.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission was aware of 46 incidents where pieces of some of the recalled toys came loose, and in three of those incidents, a child had started to choke on the toy’s parts. The recall applies to both the US and Canada.

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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt’s quest for domination continues: they somehow managed to convince Mattel that they’re good people to immortalize in doll form. Heidi’s makes more sense, since she’s already cut to the chase and embraced a little plastic herself, but family-hating Spencer must have worked some kind of magic:

“Spencer revealed that he and Heidi have talked to Mattel stating, ‘We just talked to Mattel yesterday, and we are already working on our own Ken and Barbie.’”

Why would a kid want to play with this? Do kids know what The Hills is? Surely there aren’t enough collectors out there. . . right?

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