After receiving outraged complaints about the "Lil Monkey" baby doll, Costco removed the toy from shelves in Northeast and Southeast according to Digtriad.com. The "Cuddle With Me" doll package, featured above, included a black baby doll and a plush monkey with accessories, mainly focusing on the hat the baby is wearing that reads "Lil Monkey."Several consumers found the package to be offensive and filed a complaint with store managers and Costco's corporate office. Soon after the news hit mediatakeout.com the dolls were pulled from inventory.
The item hit shelves late last month and was exclusively sold in Costco. Interesting enough, there were also Caucasian and Hispanic versions of the doll packaged with the monkey and the same hat shown in the picture. All three versions have been pulled from shelves, but some consumers and manufactures want to know why?
Some people don't find the package offensive and can't understand why others are being so sensitive. Comments made about the issue was a little disturbing...some of which read:
Easton80 wrote:
Seriously?! I don't know what's worse... that someone was actually offended by this or that the company actually pulled all of the dolls off the shelves in all those stores (costing the company lots of money) because of one person's opinion!
If this is how absurdly sensitive our country has become, then I would like to have "Vanilla Wafers" and all "Crackers" taken off the shelves... NOW! As a white person, that offends me.
See how dumb that sounds?
I really don't know how I feel about this....knowing the doll was sold in other ethnicities with the same verbiage makes me believe there was no malicious intent...but what were manufactures really thinking???
If this is how absurdly sensitive our country has become, then I would like to have "Vanilla Wafers" and all "Crackers" taken off the shelves... NOW! As a white person, that offends me.
See how dumb that sounds?
roesler wrote:
They really must be ashamed of who they are; it is very evident in their reactions to basically everything.
vjnnc wrote:
This is fricken ridiculous! ENOUGH already you IDIOTS - get over it! When I say IDIOTS, I'm talking to you IDIOTS who are ALWAYS offended by something. Good GOD this is insane.
8/12/2009 6:53 PM EDT on DigTriad.com
I really don't know how I feel about this....knowing the doll was sold in other ethnicities with the same verbiage makes me believe there was no malicious intent...but what were manufactures really thinking???
3 comments:
There will always be people who find the term "monkey" offensive because of their upbringing and past experiences. The better actions with this issue here are to focus on those things that are ACTUALLY doing harm to our society like vulgar lyrics in music, etc. -- not a baby doll! The company obviously had intentions to make the theme of monkeys a fun and playful point, not to be intended as a platform for racism. Let's seperate what is potentially harmful and what is truely for the innocence of children's play and fun. I bet for every minute spent on this issue there are thousands more issues happening that have more intent to harm people than this.
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I'm kind of agreemant with anonymous on this one.. i dont think they meant any harm and i think they blew it way out of proportion.. but i think another message here is how quickly things can be done when enough "noise" is made aobut a subject.. too bad people dont make more "noise" about things the previous commenter said- vulgor music etc...
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ALL RACIST WHITES AREN'T GOING TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!! THEY WILL SAY THAT IT HAS BEEN BLOWN OUT IF PROPORTION AND THEY DIDNT MEAN ANY HARM!!!!!SO FOR ANY BLACKS COMMENTING ON THIS WILL BE POINTLESS
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