The culture of little girls: from Barbie to Bratz

I'm not sure how this advances the Catholic legal theory project, but there is a cultural milestone that cannot go unnoticed (at least by the father of three young girls).  I am no fan of Barbie and the messages she pushes on girls.  But I would gladly buy 100 Barbies before buying a single "Bratz" doll, which can be best described as resembling a Goth-inspired prostitute.  I now learn that over this past holiday season, Bratz overtook Barbie as the top-selling doll.  If toys are a window to the culture, we should be concerned.

Rob

UPDATE: Perhaps the prostitute image is the one constant in our nation's doll preferences, and Bratz dolls have simply updated that image.  My colleague Elizabeth Brown informs me that:

Barbie is a ripoff of a German doll named Lilli, who was, in fact, a prostitute.  Barbie was created by Ruth Handler for her daughter Barbara.  Ruth and Barbara took a trip to Europe and Ruth bought a German doll named Lilli for Barbara.  Lilli was based on the character of a prostitute in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for die Bild Zietung.  The first Lilli dolls were sold in Germany in 1955.  The Lilli dolls were marketed to adult men in bars and tobacco shops, not to children.  MG Lord, in her Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, characterized the Lilli doll as a "gag gift for men, a pornographic character."