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in reply to a message by lusia
I don't really like Blythe because I don't find the word "blythe" to be wholly positive. I wanted to see if its strict dictionary definition was positive, negative, or neutral, but do you know the Merriam Webster site wanted to charge me for the definition?? Apparently, you need to pay to get their unabridged edition and "blythe" is only in the unabridged edition. Yeesh.
Anyway, what I did find as a meaning was "carefree". Which I think is what gives it a somewhat negative connotation to me. Like someone who just shucks off all responsibilities, shuts out all negative realities, just so they can act and be happy and be silly. I find the name somewhat demeaning, actually, Blythe Danner notwithstanding.
Anyway, what I did find as a meaning was "carefree". Which I think is what gives it a somewhat negative connotation to me. Like someone who just shucks off all responsibilities, shuts out all negative realities, just so they can act and be happy and be silly. I find the name somewhat demeaning, actually, Blythe Danner notwithstanding.
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and there's the Blythe dolls ...
Which were very popular in the seventies and are still kind of popular with collectors now. One of my cousins had one, and I remember playing with it. The main gimmick of a Blythe doll was its eyes changed color. The eyes were made so when you pulled a string, they turned in their sockets to show a different color iris.
The colors were brown, blue, green, and purple. (?!)
I remember very clearly that the brown eyes on my cousin's doll looked very orange, and the purple ones were pink like a rabbit's eyes.
Her Crissy doll was much prettier.
Which were very popular in the seventies and are still kind of popular with collectors now. One of my cousins had one, and I remember playing with it. The main gimmick of a Blythe doll was its eyes changed color. The eyes were made so when you pulled a string, they turned in their sockets to show a different color iris.
The colors were brown, blue, green, and purple. (?!)
I remember very clearly that the brown eyes on my cousin's doll looked very orange, and the purple ones were pink like a rabbit's eyes.
Her Crissy doll was much prettier.
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That sounds....creepy.
I loved dolls as a kid and I still like some dolls, but to a degree I understand why some people think they're creepy. Some are.
I loved dolls as a kid and I still like some dolls, but to a degree I understand why some people think they're creepy. Some are.
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I don't know that they were creepy, exactly, or just weird-looking and poorly manufactured. Cabbage Patch Kids, with those weird flat bodies and strangely-shaped heads, were also very weird.
Bratz dolls, with those psycho faces, were kind of creepy.
Crissy's gimmick was that you could make her hair grow and shorten. The one my cousin had was a redhead, which you didn't see often on dolls, and when you did it was almost always red yarn hair like Raggedy Ann and Andy or like a Cabbage Patch kid. Crissy was also very big, like the size of a small human toddler. SO she could wear real little-kid clothes too.
Bratz dolls, with those psycho faces, were kind of creepy.
Crissy's gimmick was that you could make her hair grow and shorten. The one my cousin had was a redhead, which you didn't see often on dolls, and when you did it was almost always red yarn hair like Raggedy Ann and Andy or like a Cabbage Patch kid. Crissy was also very big, like the size of a small human toddler. SO she could wear real little-kid clothes too.
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You can find it spelled "blithe" in the standard dictionary.
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Oh okay thanks.
So the Merriam-Webster definition is:
Showing a lack of proper thought or care: not caring or worrying.
There you go.
So the Merriam-Webster definition is:
Showing a lack of proper thought or care: not caring or worrying.
There you go.
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Perhaps the appeal is based on an absence of overthinking and the anxiety produced as a result of doing so. Having a carefree, light mind seems by contrast a virtue in my own view.
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