Toys R Us caters for a wide range of tastes. We all know that. I mean, personally, I’m not a big fan of the educational toys section, for example. Board games, also, are pushing it, with a few exceptions. I also tend to steer clear of the costume dress section. Invariably I get carried away, and mothers don’t take too kindly to overexcited six foot men in full musketeer outfit near their children.

Toys R Us also stocks all manner of dolls, and such. I never really understood a pre-pubescent girl’s strong desire to act out maternal instincts, but apparently those instincts are there, so there’s a market for life-like baby dolls. Fine, we can live with that.

Invariably as technology improves, dolls are made in an increasingly life-like fashion. The hair, the skin, the blinked little eyes, those serene expressions…Creepy.

I think doll manufacturers know this. And now they are humping our minds, without our approval. 2oceansviber Shane snapped this pic inside the Gateway shopping centre Toys R Us branch.

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Look at the one on the left, second from the bottom. Why are its eyes open? Is it tired of sleeping? Is it waiting patiently, morbidly for release from its humid translucent jail?

That this is creepy and fundamentally wrong, there is no doubt.

You know how many babies were dumped into trash cans and assorted refuse bins in Cape Town alone this last year? Over 500.

If you raise a generation of kids through their formative years with the understanding that when you want a baby, you get it in a box, you’ll imprint the converse understanding that when you don’t want it anymore, you put it in a box.

Siff.

[Thanks, Shane]