davidd's A Doll A Day 2018

[davidd]

To be honest, the SS part does bring about ambiguous feelings, although I'm sure it means 'spectacular style' or 'sassy style'... (fun note: my nana's father's initials were SS and he - profoundly anti-nazi person - was haunted by it the whole war, poor guy)

Nevertheless, the little Fräulein looks darn hot!

Did you know that first Barbies were, um, too heavily inspired by Bild Lilli, german doll modeled after main character of comic strip with rather adult themes - a sassy call girl named Lilli?

Yes, I was aware of Lilli. This character in my doll world is modeled after her, and the other figures, when she appears in stories, call her Lilli. That's the reason behind her rather fascist fashion sense.

(She's actually on a Pullip body, wearing the Pullip Melissa stock outfit.)

I was somewhat concerned about the "{incredibly funny satirical gag redacted}" but decided to go ahead with the joke; if you think it's problematic, I will certainly remove it. I do not, however, intend to promote Naziism in any way; rather, this is meant as satire and sarcasm, poking fun at and ridiculing the Reich. A TV show popular in re-runs when I was a kid... which I suspect they did not telecast in your country with the other old American shows, was a comedy called Hogan's Heroes, and it was about a group of Allied prisoners of war in a German prison camp who always got the better of the bumbling German military, including the slow-witted Sergeant Schulz and the incompetent Colonel Klink. Yes, it was a slapstick comedy set in a German POW camp, with copious references to the SS and the Gestapo and all manner of war-era symbolism. I suppose that the attitude in recent years has become so vehemently opposed to even referencing what the Germans did prior to and during the war that it's not even allowable to ridicule that period of history with sarcasm or satire. I find the current trend, where profanity is allowed but sarcasm is not, disturbing, because it means that the "thought police" are winning, and independent thought, which is required to understand and appreciate sarcasm and satire, is being suppressed.

Yeah, I know, I'm going way too deep now. But anyway, the "{incredibly funny satirical gag redacted}" thing is meant as a joke. If you or anyone else weighs in here and finds it uncomfortable, I'll remove it.

EDIT:

On second... or third... or fifth thought, I decided to change the caption. While it was only a joke, and all the regular forum members have strong senses of humor, all I need is for somebody from outside to stumble across it, go all mental over it, and have our fun little site flagged as being some kind of extremist hotbed.

I'm not happy about letting the potential of the "thought police" curb my self-eression, but in this case, the needs of the many and all that jazz.

Thanks for mentioning it. Prolly good thing that you did.