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I think this country is going overboard being pc ...it is a dog gone doll folks and thank god I grew up in the 60s when this country actually had some sense about things and we did not try and wipe out kids imagination of things . This country and world is going to h*ll in a handbasket really fast . I'm glad I grew up in the 60s . I feel sorry for kids now because they have adults and cell phones and computers doing all their thinking for them . This world is such a stupid place now and the wrong things are cared about aka the curvy Barbie .
Wow, if its just a doll as you say why are you worked up about it? What bothers people SO much about having dolls that look different from the norm?
when I was a little kid, I had Barbie dolls. The purpose was to have this wonderful fabulous multi-wardrobed adult girl that we could aspire to, with the various professions she aspired to - model, stewardess, model, etc. and then she had to get all the wonderful things - Barbie Car, Barbie house, etc.. It was a fantasy of what a beautiful girl could be. It was not supposed to be political correctness. We just had fun playing with all her outfits, her different shoes, back then just getting new outfits for Barbie was fun. You could escape your average day with a Barbie. Barbie was meant to dream about growing up and the grown up world. Oh yeah, and then we played the Barbie board game too.
In a few more years or so, kids will be able to print their own barbie dolls at home using a 3D printer and they will be able to customize the looks and shape easily. It's already a possibility today as many doll makers use 3D printers to develop their work.
when I was a little kid, I had Barbie dolls. The purpose was to have this wonderful fabulous multi-wardrobed adult girl that we could aspire to, with the various professions she aspired to - model, stewardess, model, etc. and then she had to get all the wonderful things - Barbie Car, Barbie house, etc.. It was a fantasy of what a beautiful girl could be. It was not supposed to be political correctness. We just had fun playing with all her outfits, her different shoes, back then just getting new outfits for Barbie was fun. You could escape your average day with a Barbie. Barbie was meant to dream about growing up and the grown up world. Oh yeah, and then we played the Barbie board game too.
It's funny you said that. I had the complete opposite impression of Barbie when I was a little girl. My sweet deceased grandmother made the mistake of giving me, her nerdy granddaughter, a Barbie for Christmas one year. I was only five years old at the time, and I wasn't having any of it. I told her, "Barbie is a sexist toy," and asked her if she would get me a science kit instead.
I was a voracious reader, into science, writing, and medicine, and even then, believed Barbie was a symbol of unattainable standards of female beauty and encouraged girls to get by on looks and not their brains. Although my grandmother was crestfallen at the time, she got me the science kit as I asked, and I ended up doing very well in school and attended college early. Many years later, we talked about that Christmas gift faux pas and had a lot of laughs about it
At least they didn't replace the traditional Barbie. It's silly to suggest that it isn't a "realistic" body type (as realistic as you can expect from a toy). It's certainly not the only type, of course.
At least they didn't replace the traditional Barbie. It's silly to suggest that it isn't a "realistic" body type (as realistic as you can expect from a toy). It's certainly not the only type, of course.
Of course Barbie's measurements are unrealistic. There was an unbelievably long thread about that exact subject several months ago. It has been closed, unfortunately (fortunately?) but the conclusion CDers, many bloggers, and probably scientists have reached is that no real woman could achieve Barbie's measurements without the help of plastic surgery, tightlaced corsetting, and/or anorexia or some other eating disorder
Lets not be too dismissive of the pressures brought to bear on companies by people with chips on their shoulders, and the race merchants that intimidate and shake down companies like Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton.
Their respective organizations have made a living on squeaking to get the green grease.
Good lord, does race really have to come into a thread about Barbie?!?!?!?
I for one am glad that black kids can buy black Barbies, or black dolls in general. I remember a time when there were NO black dolls for sale. Did Jessie and Al have anything to do with that?
Remember your big box of Crayola crayons? Remember the tannish-pink one was named 'flesh'? How would you feel if you were black and that color was the definition of 'flesh'?
You are familiar with Band-Aids? They were advertised as 'flesh-colored'.
Again, things have changed, and they've changed for the better.
A lose for parents. Now, they will need to buy clothes in various shapes and sizes, if they buy barbies in various shapes and sizes. That was the best thing for my daughter. She could swap the clothes among dolls. I guess for the kids it will be more fun with more differences though.
I know I will certainly not waste my time cutting off the heads and decorating my basement torture cell with these new gross and obese dolls.
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