Comments for Desperate Housewife on the Verge of a Doll Collecting Breakdown at http://dollsmagazine.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://dollsmagazine.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:54:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1505 great compliment. I would be very happy if things would be a great magazine in German language. Keep it up! sunny greetings Claudia from germany - Claudia Brauner Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:03:29 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1497 I very much enjoyed this article. However, I never knew that doll collectors were looked at like crazy people. I mean, collecting is collecting - and I've always looked at collections as art; whether the collection is depression glass, or paintings, or tins, or rubber duckies, or dolls. With regard to the secreting away of the doll in Gaby's closet, it seems to me that it was a statement for the show, closure. It said that she quelled her anxiety over the lost daughter by placing her story in a doll, Princess Valerie, and putting her secret away, hiding it, protecting it. Of course it's not what a doll collector would do - wishing to surround ourselves with beauty and art. Thank you for the article. Kazjia Doll - Kazjia Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:34:30 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1430 Dolls are more than a hobby, a plaything, or an object of beauty; they are a part of history from the most crudely hand made doll to fine porcelain or reborns. They are a reflection of the times, they tell a story and they are art. Art is collected in so many different forms, any museum can show you that. No one be criticized by how much art they wish to own and what type they wish to collect and if it is dolls one fancies go for it and enjoy. You are never too old to play with dolls, the play just becomes different; it becomes a collection of doll art. - Lisa Gregg Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:29:17 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1424 Bah, you don't get it. Collecting a few items is one thing, but the obssessiveness of many collectors--the sheer nuttiness of having a fixed point of interest in one thing--is certainly abnormal. Think of the lady who lives with 100 cats. Normal, healthy? No, not really. - Baggles Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:38:23 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1369 don't you remember the audrey hepburn thriller Wait Until Dark ? obviously the head unscrews and the doll is filled with "things" that make her feel good. betsy wetsy would be too messy! - patricia park Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:49:37 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1367 Jill, Melanie, and Charlene: You're all so right. Certain people are permitted to be bashed, while others are sacred and untouchable. How sad that people who collect--who are helping to pump currency into a stagnant economy--are often parodied and caricatured. There should be more sensitivity to those of us who collect. It's not always about filling a hole, or plugging up a void--sometimes it's simply because an object has intrinsic value, beauty, and an allure. Let's hope a show will eventually come around to celebrate collecting. Off the top of my head, I can think of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." The lead character gets the last laugh when his MIB action figures nets him a six-figure return on eBay. He's rich, married, and happy at the movie's end. In part, thanks to his collection! - Stephanie Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:52:15 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1366 Collectors are always portrayed as being nuts, and it's strange because TV (where we see ourselves shown as crazies) gives us HSN and QVC, plus tons of LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS and CRIBS. We're shown what we should want to own, and what is beautiful to collect,and then we're slammed. It's very annoying and insulting. Thank you for pointing this out. I'm tired of seeing myself depicted as a lonely loon! - Charlene Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:47:17 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1365 I don't watch the show but TV and movies have always made out that people who collect things are mad. Yet, most people collect something. Even famous people, the TV shows that showcase the homes of famous people often feature a room full of something the person collects. Saying this, I have witnessed some doll collecting behaviour that I consider scary.. the people who collect re-borns.. not the collecting of them but the people who take them out in strollers. They 'burp' them, 'feed' them and 'change' them... showing them off like a real newborn, trying to make other people at the shows hold their "baby". I consider that disturbing. Just collecting something... not a big deal, but travelling around with an inanimate object, pretending it's alive, not just a source of comfort, that is a bit nutty. - Melanie Clark Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:14:48 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/492-desperate-housewife-on-the-verge-of-a-doll-collecting-breakdown.html#comment-1364 The media likes to take a slap at anything that they think will draw a laugh or at a segment of people that they and society thinks is okay to make fun of. I try to grow a thick hide. My friends and my own daughter do not understand why I like dolls. I am not as obsessed as some, that talk and talk and live their lives around dolls...I do not substitute dolls for real relationships. But I don't judge those that do..often some unfortunate thing has made doll collecting (or any other focused interest) a safe haven. Who am I to judge? I also do not act embarassed that I like dolls and I do bring them up once in a while in conversation with friends when I am excited about a recent purchase, or some trivia I just discovered. Just as doll collectors are made fun of, I am also very heavy and made fun of. Society thinks it is ok to say unsolicited things in public about your weight and you obviously either do not have ears to hear with and be offended or hurt, or you must not have a brain to register it. In my opinion, heavy people are on the bottom of the totem pole of people to make fun of. If they were gay, handicapped, etc., it would be unacceptable for people to say things. Not so with heavy people. One of the most popular shows on TV, The Biggest Loser, and here I know most will disagree, parade people with little clothing to be weighed in like a freak show. Would it matter if they had a t-shirt and shorts on? No. It is unrealistic for people to watch it and think everyone can lose weight like that...people cannot afford personal trainers and leave jobs to lose weight. Would we ask a handicapped person to almost appear naked to show us his deformities? No. Again, to get back to topic and off of my soap box...the media thinks people who collect dolls must have nothing else in their life or have something wrong with them and shouldn't they have stopped playing with dolls at eleven years old? Does Demi Moore have something wrong with her? At one point she was a huge doll collector! Maybe some of today's best doll designers, who used to design clothing for "humans" had a reason to move into the doll world! LOL - Jill Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:29:57 +0100