Caylee Anthony Doll

Kamon Mason

He whom is lost, yet found.
Joined
Jan 26, 2009
Messages
14
Location
Various
Gil
0
I was watching the news not to long ago, when I saw the part about the Cayle Anthony dolls. Personally, I was offset by this matter, being that it was a young child that was murdered.

I would like to know your opinions on this matter. Do you support the doll, or are you against the doll.
 
OMG this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. I cannot believe anybody would do this, even if it was for a memorial or anything like that. It was little girl that was brutally murdered, not a freakin barbie. God this is seriously whats wrong with the world today. -__-
 
I edited the title, as it's Caylee, to avoid confusion.

Anyway I understand that the profit from the sales is going to some kind of charity? Also it was made to raise awareness, or so they say. However it would have to be a very cynical marketing executive who uses that as an excuse to cash in on selling a doll of a murdered child.

I personally don't find it morally repugnant or anything like that, but I'm inclined to not be sentimental anyway.
 
heres a link to an article about it.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212203861.shtml

Hmm some say he wasnt going to donate the money to charity while he says he is.
Without permission from the parents i dont think he has any right to make a doll. And especially seeing as the child in question was murdered, its a little disrespectfull i feel.
With permission from the parents and of course proceeds going 100% to charity i dont see a problem as these dolls are helping other people instead of lining his pockets.

EDIT - also the idea of the doll meaning to look like the child is just creepy, why not make it just a regular doll.
 
heres a link to an article about it.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212203861.shtml

Hmm some say he wasnt going to donate the money to charity while he says he is.
Without permission from the parents i dont think he has any right to make a doll. And especially seeing as the child in question was murdered, its a little disrespectfull i feel.
With permission from the parents and of course proceeds going 100% to charity i dont see a problem as these dolls are helping other people instead of lining his pockets.

EDIT - also the idea of the doll meaning to look like the child is just creepy, why not make it just a regular doll.


Agreed.

Oh, and thank you for editing the title, Bez. That is what I get for typing in the dark and not checking my words.
 
heres a link to an article about it.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212203861.shtml

Hmm some say he wasnt going to donate the money to charity while he says he is.
Without permission from the parents i dont think he has any right to make a doll. And especially seeing as the child in question was murdered, its a little disrespectfull i feel.
With permission from the parents and of course proceeds going 100% to charity i dont see a problem as these dolls are helping other people instead of lining his pockets.

EDIT - also the idea of the doll meaning to look like the child is just creepy, why not make it just a regular doll.


well the problem with parental permission is that the mother is the one suspected of killing Caylee. and if they did make a doll I kinda feel like its exactly what the mother wanted. It's been said that She didn't even want to have Caylee in the first place and that she was going to have an abortion but her mother wouldn't allow it, and it seems like Casey Anthony killed her daughter just for the attention and stuff. She really never truly appealed for her daughter's return, and she seemed to like getting the media's attention. So making a Caylee doll would basically give her even more attention, which is what she wants.
 
A little girl that was brutally murdered and they make a doll in her likeness. Now, yes this information has afforded me mass quantity of what is affectionately termed " The Willies", my question is this:

Why is that no one gets pissed when they promote living people with a doll? There are people who are alive and have to walk into toys r us with their kids and see some twisted humanoid pekinese dressed in their assigned signature garb stocked in bulk with their band name on it in huge Matisse ITC font( let us all get to boycottn').... and yet the same people who own Prez Kennedy...or <insert plugged celebrity name here> figurines are the same types that quiver in the loins over a chance to picket against this item....

Granted, asking " What do you make of it?" Is not socially uncalled for. Neither is wondering about others opinion. But to lose sleep over the desecration of a little girls death while the breathing and among us are flocking the cavity space of 18-wheelers....

Oh my God....heres one par for the 4....I just found an argument within! How the hell would a person present this doll as a gift to another little girl?

" Look honey I bought this doll at a charity event. "

*girl reads back of box*

" Ummm........why do I need to be reminded of this?"











*crickets*






I guess I should have asked myself that same question before I ressurected this thread. Damn....
 
Last edited:
Not to be insensitive or anything, but I find it ironic that a little girl would find more fame in death than in life. It just goes to show what a sick twisted world we live in.


As for the topic at hand (namely, the dolls), I think it wouldn't be sick at all to make dolls, provided they didn't look like the little girl. Because they do, that little girl will always be primarily associated with child murder. That's what she'll be remembered for. Not for the way she acted, not for the things she did, she'll always be looked at as part of a body count. People will see her face and go "oh, that's the child murder girl!" instead of going "oh, that's Caylee Anthony!".

If you're prompted by a death to promote awareness of that kind of death around the world, then choose something symbolic of the death. A doll is fine, but don't tarnish the memory of a little girl who died tragically by permanently connecting her face to the crime she fell victim to.
 
Back
Top