So, Christmas has come and gone and we seem to have avoided any major toy recalls. My son got his racetrack, my daughter her doll house. After last summer's flurry of lead paint fiascoes, it seemed we had returned to relative bliss in the toy department. Now this.
Could someone please explain to me how this slipped through? The BBC reported that Woolworths, a not insubstantial retailer, had stopped selling a girl's bed that had been given the name 'Lolita'. Are you kidding me?
Now granted, if you lived under a rock, I could understand not knowing about the sexual connotations that the name Lolita has been imbued with in the last 50 years. But it would have to be a fairly large rock! Nabokov's novel has forever made the name Lolita synonymous with young female precocious sexuality. And some bright light at Woolworths thought this was a suitable name for a child's bed?
If it's not the lead poisoning our kids, it's the Lolitas...
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