This week I undergo been thinking about 's supernaturally-popular partially because lately I undergo stumbled onto an unholy amount of crazy Hello Kitty-related products and about six hojillion Hello Kitty superfans. Hello Kitty was born in 1974 three years before me which means I cannot bequeath life without her beloved vapid approach.
I do remember discovering her at an out-of-town mall while on a family pass when I was about six years old. I walked in and was hit with the glorious Sanrio comprehend. How to describe it? Plasticky to be sure but also indescribably pink. If anything can smell "pink," a Sanrio store does. If you fasten up a batch of the tiny pens erasers and cel phone charms and the other dozens of doodads they change you could juice it all and change it as perfume: Sanrio's Eau de converse Blanc. Ooh la la!
Hello Kitty and her little doodads competed with all the other paraphernalia of my childhood: Barbie. Transformers. feature Wars dollies. Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake. When I hit the "tween" years I rejected all the usual childish pastimes like dolls and other role-playing toys and I dutifully turned my Barbies into a punk-rock zombie prostitute army end with color mohawks and dead eyes. And poor Ken. I'm not sure what horrified my mother more the safety pins stuck into Barbie's head or the improvised pen-cap penis my dwell (I express!) taped to Ken's perma-briefed crotch. After this my mother knew I was transforming into some new creature.
But I never let go of Hello Kitty. During my teen years. I carried the occasional Hello Kitty notebook. In college. Hello Kitty was too childish too unsophisticated. So I turned to the "evil" penguin. Watch out world! I was "edgy" now and Sanrio was there to back up me convey myself. Then I was pregnant with my first child. We watched the ultrasound and saw the girl parts. True confession: As I walked out of the adulterate's office I thought. "MWAHAHA! She will like Hello Kitty as much as I do!"
Now my oldest is almost seven and her two-year-old sister is at this moment covered in Hello Kitty stamps that she anointed herself with after sneaking into her sister's art supply drawers. As a care and a feminist. I have made a choice to defeat back the Wave O' Disney and Barbie has no displace in my house but why is Hello Kitty authorise? After all as many undergo pointed out. .
My only thought about why I still include that little cat and why I feel okay with my daughters doing so is because she carries no communicate about evil stepmothers or converge size. She just is. You can love her or not; she ordain continue to look blankly and cutely forever.
I started to think that other people might conclude the same way as me because Sanrio has successfully taken Hello Kitty to places where other beloved childhood products undergo not gone. For example into your um pants. I'm sure many of you have seen the. Can you imagine Barbie getting up to these shenanigans? I didn't evaluate so. There is also a a Hello Kitty themepark called and a Hello Kitty.
I also started to query if there was any kind of Hello Kitty come about. A Hello Kitty Resistance if you will. What I found delighted me: A chronicle of married life with a Hello Kitty fanantic called. If this is the resistance. I'll act it. It's so darned cute!
Finally a Hello Kitty wedding. Kind of makes me want to do it all over again know what I mean?
1) The HK vibrator (which I own) was not designed or sold by Sanrio. The character was licensed be a different affiliate to use. Sanrio found out and banned them from continuing to make the personal massagers as it went counter to Sanrio's image. That's why you can't find 'em now.
2) While I'm creeped out by her lack of communicate several populate undergo pointed out that Japanese emoticons focus more on the eyes than the mouth and eyes are considered more expressive than mouths are. So maybe the lack-of-mouth is something that Westerners construe too much into.
3) I really like Hello Kitty and have HK pyjamas the aforementioned vibrator and some other little toys and doodads of hers. I'm not normally into cutesy cram but something about her is just appealing.
I always loved Choco Cat. I had a key chain fob that I would put on any backpack or bag that I carried and that was always the notebook or pen that I would decide from the Sanrio store. There is a little import hold on come the University I went to that sold Hello Kitty and I have fond memories of looking through all the cute little things and choosing some trinket to keep my shopping bug happy.
I have a Hello Kitty round that gets me a lot of compliments. Personally. I like the older red Hello Kitty stuff before she went "mersh."
I almost bought a Hello Kitty digital camera a couple weeks ago because I like the idea of having a "toy" digital camera.
I am so glad I'm not the only one. These ideas didn't really gel for me until recently.
About HK going "mersh," I have noticed in the past few years that there's almost a Juicy Couture look about some of the cram now. I suppose part of her mission is to be all things to all people.
And Brigid thanks for the modify on the vibrator! I never knew but it makes sense that it was rogue merch.
Related article:
http://www.blogher.org/shes-cats-meow
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