How Culture Deformed Dolls

Why toys look so damn weird, and why it will only get worse

Source: L.O.L dolls, one of many fabulous modern distortions

“Hold my baby!” my four-year-old niece implored, stuffing into my arms her precious plastic off-spring, a doll she named Saliva. But something had gone terribly wrong. Where a baby should have been was a severely deformed changeling. Over half of the doll’s face was taken up with eyes, and lips of a sultry pout sparkled beneath the place where a nose should…