The latest toy craze to hit France is an action figure that gives a new meaning to the word "action." "She is beautiful, no?" asked Jacques de John, CEO of Le Joi Du Toys, France's largest toy manufacturer. He was referring to its Collette line of dolls introduced three months ago. "But then," he added with a uniquely Gallic wink and laugh, "she would have to be, given her toy line of work, eh?"
Collette stands 12 inches tall and resembles America's classic Barbie doll. But the similarities end there. While Barbie can be a princess, a nurse, a pilot or any one of a hundred professions that promotes self-esteem, Collette has lots of wardrobe but just one career.
"She is a Woman of the Night," said Monsieur de John.
Dressed in a tight black miniskirt, fishnet stockings, stiletto heels and a belly shirt, Collette also features excessive make-up and a comehither smile familiar -- we are told -- to those who frequent the sleazier sections of Paris.
"And," added Marie Latrampe, Le Joi's director of marketing, "Collette and her friends in the Action Hookers line are all anatomically correct."
What a delightful doll to bring to career day at your local elementary school.
Now it seems pretty clear that this is not marketed for your typical four year old (More likely your more perverted forty year old), and one has to wonder what horrible fate might befall these "toys"after being removed from their boxes, but I actually applaud the depicting of the anatomy in realisitic fashion. I think that seeing Barbie with nothing between her unnaturally long legs probably bothered some pre-adolescent girls.
I mean I know it bothered me.
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Don't feed the trolls!
It just goes directly to their thighs.