A Pair Of Bratz Dolls Is Changing The Toy Industry And Making Kids Feel More Included
To celebrate Pride Month in 2020, Bratz shared a sweet snap of two of their dolls, Roxxi and Nevra, cozying up, with one donning a lesbian flag wristband and the other a bisexual pin badge. “Steppin’ out and coming out,” wrote Bratz, to send a message of support and acceptance to their LGBTQ+ followers.
It isn’t unusual for brands to jump on the rainbow bandwagon during Pride to garner more followers or boost their sales.
However, over a year later, Roxxi and Nevra are still going strong. They even went on a date to a haunted house for National Coming Out Day 2021.
But why is this important? Is it really such a big deal for two dolls to be “dating?”
As Emily Bashforth for LGBTQ Nation writes, if little girls were taught from a young age that two women being in a relationship with one another is pure and wholesome and lovely (and normal), and not taught that “lesbian” is a sexual and dirty word, they could accept their own sexuality much sooner.
Seeing Bratz offer that lifesaving representation to children today makes me emotional because it is giving LGBTQ+ youth the opportunities to feel seen and heard that I never had.
And not only are queer Bratz dolls incredibly important for children to be taught about the existence of the LGBTQ+ community, they’re also validating for the queer folk in their 20s who grew up ashamed and frightened to be themselves.
Lesbian dolls who are open and proud of their sexuality not only normalizes female-female relationships from the get-go, it reassures the LGBTQ+ women in adulthood that there was never anything wrong with them.
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