Bratz dolls

Slate does a nice round-up of how the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood forced the world’s biggest publisher of children’s books, Scholastic Inc., to stop selling and marketing its popular, highly skeevy Bratz series of books to school children in the U.S.  But fear not: the hypersexualized stars of Dancin’ Divas and Catwalk Cuties are still available for purchase elsewhere for all of those Pamela-Andersons-in-training.