Why does dora wear a belly shirt

It's about a Spanish girl named Dora and her monkey named Boots. It's aka, inc! You should watch this. Teen, 13 years old Written by burritosareawesome55 October 5, Teen, 16 years old Written by Vitani Pajama September 15, I love this show.

I think it's good. This show is good but I don't think it should be pretty much the same thing over and over again. This title contains: Positive role models. Teen, 15 years old Written by pawpatrolfanatic September 6, Teen, 14 years old Written by InfinityVive June 28, This show is so stupid. Kids are not that stupid to believe she is with them in real life, I mean, this causes Kids to be so dumb in the future, I recently found my little brother punching the TV because of how stupid this show is, So I recommend not letting kids watch this till they are sane enough to recognize the difference between TV and real life.

P May 31, Dora is a great show Dora is the best because she teach's Spanish and helps kids learn i am a fan of Dora the character she is cute and the voice is good i give it a 4 out of 5.

Kid, 11 years old April 26, Teen, 13 years old Written by SuperSackboy April 21, The Songs Are Amazing. The Theme Song Is Catchy. The Characters Are My Childhood. Teen, 13 years old Written by Lulubeanjones06 April 12, Kid, 11 years old March 4, Ugh, this gives me a headache! I guess Fora the Murderer is more like it because Dora is a bad influence for kids. First of all, this show is super annoying. The songs are annoying as well, so do the theme song. The cheers are ringing in my ears.

Dora always let children scream unnecessary things IDK if I spelled unnecesaary correctly because I always fail my spelling tests. Second, the plot is just pointless. Dora can't teach kids how to speak proper Spanish.

The post you link to is from November , and it's a post about the toys and dolls like "Magic Hair Fairytale Princess Dora", not about Dora's current makeover.

Also, I don't really appreciate women's feminist speech being characterised as a "fuss". It's a trivialising gendered, derogatory term. Perhaps I'm missing the plot because I've never actually watched Dora the Explorer, but if she's all about cooking and taking care of babies, then the name is pretty misleading. Patti - not that sort of exploring, although not the other one either.

The show is basically about getting from point A to point B usually through two intermediate steps - stuff like "go across the bridge and through the tunnel to get to the mountain" , and the story revolves around solving the problems encountered on the way - the bridge might be missing some planks, or the tunnel is dark and they need to find a flashlight in Dora's ever helpful talking backpack. The babies come from a special which included Dora taking care of super twins - although that two is in the same basic format as is the Dora and the Snow Princess special, where there are THREE intermediate points.

My boy loves Dora. I remember looking around for Dora toys that will actually live up to the spirit of the show, and being disappointed at finding exactly what you found although I also found a Backpack toy that was rather neat but too pricey for us.

It also surprised me that it was all so girl-specific in a stereotypical sense - it's all pink, for one. I don't know, at this age, kids can hardly tell girls and boys apart, let alone care if the character they like is one or the other. It seems odd to act as if this character is only attractive to girls. Noted, and I changed the word. You're right that "fuss" is generally used that way, though for the record, as our previous posts on re-designing children's toys like Strawberry Shortcake indicate, neither Lisa nor I think concerns about the new Dora were silly or unwarranted--we were fairly horrified when we saw the Dora aisle last year and realized that despite Dora supposedly being this alternative role model for girls, it all looked about the same as Barbie to us.

Cheers, Gwen! Yes, I didn't get the impression from this post that you thought it was trivial - and we'd noted the same issues. I have a son who's been a big Dora fan. We struggled to find anything appropriate or interesting when we were ok to compromise on the licensed-gear thing, but didn't want hypermasculinised violent crap like Transformers.

We ended up getting a Dora beachtowel, because everything else was kitchens and dolls. Just how old is the new Dora supposed to be? The fact that most girls are exposed to conceptions of passive, ornamental femininity very early doesn't mean everyone needs to shut up embrace that. She looks prepubertal in body shape to me - at that age I was still playing in the park in nothing but shorts, and the only piece of "jewellery" I recall owning was a watch.

Chemistry sets and footballs were the order of the day, not prancing around in ballet shoes with hands akimbo and plenty of lipstick. Actually, that pretty much sums up my teens, too, except the footballs were largely replaced by rollerskates, and I wore a shirt.

You know, if she was in the same outfit with hiking boots and a more practical body pose as if she was about to do something other than play at pirouetting , I doubt I'd have anywhere near as much of a problem with it. Though I'd still rather they subtracted the earrings and makeup. Since when is "fuss" a feminized term? How about "ado", would that be legitimate? I have to admit, I'm kinda glad she's finally got a shirt that fits--that too-short t-shirt always bugged me about the old look.

The older Dora is not really wearing a dress, she's wearing a long empire-waist top and leggings--a pretty typical and comfortable outfit for a third-grade girl to wear to school here. I found it interesting to note that two others mentioned their sons being interested in Dora. My son age 3 loves Dora as well. He's got some Dora stuff colouring books mostly but I've never been out looking at all the crazy toysrus-shit that is for sale it seems that there is a great disparity between TV shows, their writers and consultants, and the toy manufacturers.

Anyhow, one thing to think about as well is Dora's relationship to Diego. Where it seems that Dora could be in a process of becoming domesticated she appears to be abdicating her adventure and exploratory roles to Diego. This is totally superficial but it might be a productive line of questioning.

It could be that this has always been the case. I also agree with Penny that the so-called 'dress' is actually not really a dress and is not necessarily bad for exploration.

I tree planted for almost an entire season in a maternity dress and they're actually quite comfortable in the bush. Gender roles are imposed on infants from day one, and the fact that an enormous number of children resist them for as long as they do is entirely about how stupid and ridiculous gender roles are. Dora offered a different version of a socially-acceptable way to be a little girl. It was one that did not involve the hypersexualization of beauty princesses, which is where the new one seems to be headed.

See the earlier entry about fake hair for infants so that everyone will be able to instantly gender them. I don't agree that Dora is 'hypersexualized' in the new variation. She is certainly more commoditized as a subject she is adorned with more identifiable articles of salable commodities. I don't particularly like the update but I think a reading of this solely on her appearance would do an injustice to the character itself, which must be built up through stories, actions, appearances, etc.

Could it be that she is even less of a caricature than she was before? The new form might offer different forms of vitality and engagement. Actually by updating her appearance and wardrobe to a conventional looking tween without changing her feminist-light empowerment mythology there may be a greater penetration of positive role ideologies than if they sketched her up as someone who looks and acts identifiably different.

More likely than not, there is more interest in appealing to as many girls kids as possible than there is in creating a positive role model that's just the sugar coating. Corporate kids media will always disappoint, eventually. It's not clear to me from the announcement whether they will be producing a new show. And there doesn't seem to be any discussion here about the audience age. Beyond that they didn't care for her anymore.

If they are doing another show, intending to give OLDER girls a role model, they are clearly mirroring what happens in school. The girls start wearing leggings and empire-waist tunics, dressing more gendered. I also wish they didn't bother with the jewelry.

I agree that this is about appealing to a wider audience -- actually, an older audience, who are more insistent for a few years about gender roles. While they are reinforcing gendered dressing, I would be willing to overlook that if Dora continues to live up to her name as an Explorer.

It's nice that a few girls would like her if she were a tomboy which is what she would be as a grade schooler, unlike her neutral preschool image but most girls want a feminine-looking role model. I wonder if it's realistic to expect a role model to smash both gendered behavior and gendered appearance.

Will she still be appealing as a role model? Keep in mind the girls have already internalized an enormous amount of gender roles. I love kiddie cartoon dora. I guess its just the anime lover in me. It seems dora's life was only part exploring Dora's continuing growth as a character is also addressed by Sally Forth artist Ces Marciulano in his less well-known strip Medium Large:.

In case this blog supports pasting images if there's one below, it works; if not, click the link above to see it :. Yet another missed opportunity to create a more interesting character for children male and female. Dora the Explorer should be in hiking-jungle-mountaineering gear with lots of great outdoors kit having real physical adventures.

Length of hair, jewellery and even make up are not relevant as in the real world women climb mountains, sail boats and live in the jungle studying wildlife with long hair, jewellery and even make up. They are mere detail. Clothes and kit are not. These companies are pond life - ignore them and move on. Search around a bit and it's possible to find more interesting children's media - e.

The real thing is always better anyway. Along with being thinner and more doe-eyed, the new Dora is also lighter-skinned and her hair is lighter. I guess she used to be "too Hispanic"?

I would like to kept all little dora stuff in toy stores. I an a big fan of new dora but plese kept old stuff in stores. I love doras toys. Each time there is a post here showing how gendered kids' stuff is, I can help but wonder if it got much more extreme in the last 20 years or so since I was 10 myself : , or is it just me who is more sensitive?

As I kid I was a "tomboy"- hated long hair, loathed pink, and to this day I never wear dresses. Is there indeed today less "room" for children like I was? I asked my little sister, Kadence who is also six, if she liked the new Dora. She said " I like her shirt cuz it has flowers, i like her pants cuz their purple cuz my favorite color is purple, and i like her shoes cuz i like ballet shoes! Any tampering with our Dora rocks our world. The outrage is powered by pent up outrage over the sexualization of our daughters, of their dolls and their clothing.

The outrage is far more than just tween-ifying Dora. It is about all the other small things that inch our daughters closer to and further away from cuddling with us on the couch with the Backyardigans.

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