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Girl fight = hot!

It is on!!!!! According to The Manchester Guardian:

What a cat fight it is turning out to be. Later this month, in a courtroom in Riverside, California, Barbie will go head to head with her nemeses, that streetwise gang of four known as Bratz. At stake is not just the future of the multibillion-dollar doll market, but also the ownership over images of femininity that influence the imaginative lives of millions of girls around the world.

This week a federal judge in California gave permission for a trial. When it starts, probably on May 27, a jury will hear claims from Mattel, the makers of Barbie, that it owns the copyright of the Bratz designs, which were created, it claims, by an employee and smuggled to a rival, MGA Entertainment.

Yes that's right. In 2000, MGA Entertainment wanted to make a doll that represented everything that Barbie did not- girls in tight-fitting shorts and exposed midriffs. Move over all American Ken and Barbie, make way for Chloe, Jade, and Yasmin. Unfortunately, sex sells (even with four year-olds who play with dolls) and Bratz has taken away a lot of marketshare from Barbie, hence the copyright lawsuit.

A couple comments. First of all, where's the American media on this story? This is the exact type of bull#$^& that the our press corps covers in excellent detail (unlike reporting on things such as weapons of mass destruction, when the American media looks more like this).

Second of all, I saw this one coming a long ways down the road. Remember the SNL sketch featuring Gangsta Bitch Barbie? Awww yeah, you just knew she was gonna throw down!

Full post as published by Supreme Dicta on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).