Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Bleak

Do you all of you out there know what reborn dolls are? They are mass-produced dolls that are redone using paint (down to tiny veins,) rooted hair, and appropriate stuffing or filling to imitate an actual newborn baby. Magnets can be used to give the baby a pacifier. It's not my thing, but then most people would probably think I was strange for collecting dolls at all, so there you are. But tonight on eBay was a first for me: a reborn baby vampire doll. Creepy! Not to mention, how do vampires have babies anyway? Besides that whole Twilight thing which is probably at fault for a lot of this current vampire craze anyway. I suppose some people would like the sweetness and innocence of a baby combined with the darkness of a vampire--or they want to pretend they have Edward Cullen's love child. It just seems a little too ghoulish for me.

Our culture seems to be ever more fascinated with death, darkness and things that go bump in the night. It may be more of an issue to me because of my illness. If I am not careful, I can get pulled into the abyss easier than most. But thinking of the idea of "the culture of death" that some have thrown around, due to the acceptance, and in some cases encouragement, of abortion and euthanasia, I wonder. Non-Christians have every right to collect a doll created after the Death Tarot card, or be drawn to gloominess and cemeteries. Am I overreacting to wonder if our culture can wonder too far down the path into darkness? What do you see in your world?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

If no one comments on this by tomorrow, then I will. I'm still ruminating on the CSPP post about "one-butt kitchens."

-Jane S.

Barb the Evil Genius said...

The what now?

Anonymous said...

A one-butt kitchen works best when only one person is in there to cook. And when friends or relatives visit, they feel guilty if they can't help in the kitchen.

J.S.

Barb the Evil Genius said...

My mom has one of those. Called a "galley kitchen." Kitchen is long and narrow. Seemed to be popular in houses of a certain era.

I had to think hard to know what CSPP was. I don't go there.

Anonymous said...

I cannot get my mother's words out of my head, "Now when you go over to so-and-so's house, you make sure to ask if they need help with the dishes."

Maybe that's why I don't like to visit people and why I don't have people over for dinner very often ;)

*And* I know why some women do not want anyone in their kitchens. Not even their own kids! LOL

Anonymous said...

Oh, I was going to comment on vampire baby dolls.

And I don't have anything to say.

J.S.