Lol! Those Van de Graaff generators making the doll’s hair stand on end looks like something my younger brother would do to our dolls when we were kids. Boy dolls weren’t popular so the boys liked to use our dolls in their science, sports and war games. We were always finding them with their hair cut off and a missing limb because they were casualties of war, injured on the field or victims of science gone wrong.
My/our family experience has tended to view that sort of toy mutilation as the work of the girls, especially the 3-4 year olds. The now 7 yo twin great-grand daughters left such a trail of wrecked dolls after their passage through those years they're almost ashamed to ask for any new.
Most of the boys in our outfit would sooner be seen in a tux with their hair combed than get caught even touching a (shudder) doll.
Or maybe it's just that we've raised whole generations of rednecks and didn't even notice.
Van de Graaff generators
Not de, it’s Der