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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Hannah Montana ... ?

So, we're browsing around the Round Rock Outlet Mall last night, to enjoy the cooler evening weather, and Z wanted to go into Kay-bee Toys. While he was drooling over Transformers, I wandered over to the board game section, only to stumble upon this:

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Here's a close-up, just in case you can't see it well:

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A.) Games like this should be abolished. Teaching your daughter how to become a "pop star", like Hannah Montana. It says it includes an "instructional DVD", as if to imply that if you & your daughter follow the steps on the DVD, you TOO could be the next Billy Ray & Miley. Isn't that false advertising? How about this ... do your daughter a favor, and get her a chemistry set instead.

B.) If they are marketing to little pre-pubescent girls, shouldn't they at least put someone on the box who actually looks like a girl? Or a young girl, at that? For some reason, the person photographed looks to me like a 14-year old boy in drag. I know this poor person had to don the dreadful Hannah Montana wig, but honestly. Even Miley Cyrus looks more feminine than this when she's all costumed up. Disney (who put out the game) could use a little of their massive fortune made off of Hannah Montana to doll up the girl on the game box. Wow.

By the way, has anyone out there ever watched five minutes of Hannah Montana? If so, you will probably understand my utter confusion as to how this became such a phenomenon. I think they use laugh tracks, it's that bad. Hannah Montana is reason #738 that I'm happy to be the Mom of a boy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought it looked like a boy too!