It's not just dolls that freak people out in today's society. It's anything that doesn't fit into their limited (programmed?) thinking.
I went to one doll meet, and did a short picture shoot of Tabitha and her failure to keep the gnomes in their prison. Guards have guns, so Tabby had one. One of the members who came, stared at what I was doing and his eyes got wide and he all but yelled "You have a gun!"
I replied, "Yeah, it's not loaded."
"But, you have a gun!"
I told him It's for the scene I'm doing. Still he was freaked out that I had a real gun. I wondered what his reaction would be if he came to the house and I showed him my 30-06 hunting 'sniper' rifle with a scope instead of just a 12 gauge shotgun. :rolleyes: