If anything, she's speeding up.
With her everlasting beauty (which has nothing to do with botox) and over 100 successful career changes, this little doll, bulldozes everything that gets in her way. Is that girl power or what??
Any doll that tries to challenge her superiority she destroys, from Rock star Jem, to the British Sindy none were safe. Even Bratz, that posed the first real threat to the doll giant has been crushed-Barbie sued them and prevented the company from making anymore dolls (to be honest I was wondering where they'd gone to).
Barbie is successful because she moves with the times, she has never been stuck in the past, but a forward thinker, who resembles the idea that girls can do anything, and look good doing it too!
People dislike her because she's unrealistic and she represents the unattainable, but she's a toy, a fantasy is you will. In 1995 the International Journal of Eating Disorders complained that if Barbie were a real sized human her measurements would be 38-18-34, and Finnish researchers said that she'd be so thin that she would not be able to menstruate. They're completely missing the point. SHE"S A DOLLY. Barbie is not real. She was never meant to be real, and anyone who thinks otherwise is severely deluded.
Barbie is an aspiration, she encourages girl power and shows girls that it's ok to be beautiful and a doctor, or a presidential candidate or whatever they want to be.
3 comments:
Don't you just love it when people can take some as simple as a doll and twist it into a cause? what's interesting is that you never heard an uproar over G.I. Joe dolls being unrepresentative of true masculinity.
People take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
Is G.I Joe the same as Action Man or is it different?
I think these little dollies have pretty sweet lives, who else has a range rover, a porsche, a mini and a beetle and a beach buggy :)
LOL! Yeah, it is similar to Action Man, but with a decidedly American spin.
All those cars? Hmm? I don't know where I'd keep them anyway. ;-)
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