Are dolls childish?

Adults with an attitude like that, such as attacking and making fun of, should be considered childish as well. I guess they didn't grow out of being a bully in a playground.

 

That actually made me laugh pretty bad! It's so true though!

 

I don't think it's childish. I think it really depends on what you do with them.

For example... making your dolls talk to one another by holding their heads and talking in a high-pitched voice... that's a little childish.

But if you just give you doll a personality and you don't act it out, I don't think it's childish.

Enjoying a hobby and collecting things are perfectly normal, if you ask me.

(Not that I'm one to talk... I don't, per say, make my dolls 'talk' to one another in a high-pitched voice, but I do have conversations with them and they have conversations with my nieces. For example my niece will ask why Nixie is in pink and I'll say, 'Nixie says its because she likes pink'. Does that make me childish? Sure, why not?)

 

I love this! It is completely true.

 

I think there's a difference between being rude and being honest. It's my honest opinion that many adults have extremely childish hobbies, but my definition of childish is something associated with childhood. To me there's a difference between a toy and a piece of artwork. Children play with toys, adults collect and enjoy artwork. Someone who assumes BJDs are "childish" just doesn't understand the meaning of the word, let alone the nature of the dolls.

 

I completely agree with IcePuppet, I just don't see why it would be childish.
Making them talk does sound a little childish to me as well, and also a bit...strange. Just like people saying their dolls are their
children. It's not that I'm not okay with people calling them that, but I'd never do it myself because I find it strange. But hey,
everyone has their own way of expressing their love for their dolls, seeing them as your child is just one of those ways.
I give my dolls personalities too, but I usually fit the dolls to a character that already excists on paper. Because I write stories
and draw a lot and I just like to make them even more 'real' that way. I don't think that's something that's childish to do, to me
it's just an artistic way to express my love for my characters and for my dolls.

And I do 'talk' to my dolls sometimes. But hey, I do the same thing with my two cats and my dog. It's just because I love them
very much, and basically it's just me thinking out loud how much I like them.

 

Collecting dolls are not childish. Dolls in general are not childish they are here in this world as your companion when you're down just like pets, family, and friends are. Dolls are not in this world for the sole purpose of a child they are for everyone to enjoy regardless of age.

 

Personally, I don't think they're childish at all. Like someone many pages ago said, they give you a kind of childlike joy, but they aren't childish. I see children as needy and reckless and someone who is childish is immature. BJDs are something that a child could probably not handle... The concept of dolls in general is heavily associated with childhood, but BJDs do at some point cross the line from a doll to a piece of artwork. In fact, the Luts manual that's sent with their dolls states "It is recommended to use our products when you're 16 year old or above." AND "Please keep away the dolls and tools from children."

I can understand how other people don't understand their usefulness and art, though... Just now at supper, my grandmother was describing to my grandfather about how I waited by the door for the mail lady when she brought my KDF girl this morning... He looks at me and says "What are you going to do with your dollies when you outgrow that stage?" And I don't know why, but I was a little offended... It's not his fault, he doesn't know what kind of doll it was, but I for some reason found that question very derogative. The first thing out of my mouth was "I don't think this is the kind of thing one can outgrow" and then "they're very high-quality, expensive art dolls"
Of course, if anyone ever tries to criticize me too much about liking dolls I just whip out the price or say that I use them for art tools instead of playing with them... Which is only half true

 

Honestly, they are pretty delicate, I'd have a hard time picturing children owning BJD's because of that reason alone. In fact, my first mistake with dolls, was accidentally scratching my boy's faceup! I have no idea how delicate they could be, and after I learned, the hard way, I started handling them way more carefully! I don't think that someone who is childish could own one without damaging it!

I love my dolls, my comics, my 5 cats, and my video games! I still go to work and pay my bills, so I don't think hobbies can rightfully define someone's maturity levels.

 

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis

 

Honestly, I don't think there's anything childish about the dolls. BJD's teach responsibility, what with taking care of them and the like. It's like having a pet without the worry of feeding them.

 

I dunno, I liked boy dolls when I was a child, but I sure wasn't doing stuff like this. I think it's all in the delivery. Some people like to play with dolls in a more childlike way, some people like to play with the same dolls in a more grownup way.

 

It´s stupid to say that doll collecting is childish,because everybody have different intrerest and collect...and so what if you are childish, I´m rather childish than too adult XD

 

There was one really cool and utterly true saying:

Until we know how to play we'll be young. When we forget it, we'll get old.

I think it doesn't matter how old you are. You can be ten or sixty and still the only thing that matters is that you enjoy what you're doing. So if someone says that you're childish, becouse you're playing with dolls don't listen to him. No one has the right to determine what you should or shouldn't do.

After all, I really don't think that giving 600 dollar doll to small child is a wise idea.

 

You may as well say that creativity and imagination are childlish. This is a hobby that involves hours of work, love and thought. It requires a lot of money, which for most of us equates working our butts off. This hobby actually matures people. How is that childlish?

My own mother rolls her eyes when I say I would like to buy "a toy". But "childlish" things (ponies, dolls, lolita clothes, cartoons) has made me happy. Yes, I actually spend my hard earned scholarship on them. Yes, they don't gain me anything. But they give me deep satisfaction and simple happines.

 

bjds arent childish. they are perfect models for art.

 

Absolutely. Every time I get mine out to play it brings out my inner child. I love it. And being childish is no crime, or sin. Its just a way to get in touch with yourself.

 

definitely childish, but that in no way is a negative thing, and anyone who says it as such is totally missing something in their life, probably the point.

I'm often told I need to "grow up" and I say that I "grow up" a little every day, but growing up doesn't have to mean to forget about everything that is innocent and fun.
There is definitely something childish about any kind of doll, but a BJD is surly not for children.
I wouldn't be giving one to my daughter when she turns three.
^_^

 

Childish? Of course not, Dolls or any kind of toys are absolutely not for children only
People who sees that ways, doesn't think outside the box
they should be open-minded to a vast of things and ideas, so they may learn to appreciate the hobby
I was never deprived of dolls when I was a kid, actually I have a LOT! ^^
Before I am ashamed of buying of the dolls, because of this mentality, about the norms of the society
and stereotyping older generations, but now I'm proud of my doll and I love each one of them
This hobby makes me happy, so be it!

 

I don't think collecting/owning dolls, or any toys, is childish. Many respectable people i know in my life have been involved in dolls; my grandpa is Japanese figurine collector, and one of my grandmas was a doll maker and she owned many dolls.... and they are far from childish.
Toys are another form of art. And i don't think admire/collect/own an art is a childish act.
It depends on how do you act when you are around the dolls/toys..that might give the impression of being childish.