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Despising Barbie
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Despising Barbie With the holidays upon us and Christmas shopping about to kick into overdrive, I thought it best to present my ideas (twisted tho they may be) on some of the toys that are out there. I start this little series off with a treatise on Barbie. Read and have fun. Adult Dating zone does not endorse the views of bloggers on this site. The Barbie toy line serves, quite, possibly, as the single greatest threat to the very fiber of American moral fiber today. I realize that may sound strange to most folks (especially here), and chauvanistic to others. I wouldn't be surprised if the ACLU comes after me. "Why?" you ask. I'll tell you. The Barbie persona embodies and propagates ideas detrimental to a healthy balance of reason among Americans. Barbie promotes an impossible ideal of beauty, an extreme bent of materialism, and a confusing message regarding career choices, all of which serve to undermine the ideals of women in American society. Barbie's impossible figure, though legendary in its obvious appeal, promotes an extremely unhealthy view of women's bodies among our youth. While breast size has been equated with femininity and fertility for untold ages, we have to ask ourselves, "What's really going on here?" Were Barbie a real person, her measurements would be 38-24-35. She would also be about 7 feet tall and weigh about 110 lbs. Clearly the doll is not based on an actual human being. Such outrageous measurements bring to mind the exaggerations made by ancient civilizations in their sculptures of fertility gods and goddesses. Are we so blind as to happily let our girls play with fertility idols? I wonder if there could be a correlation between pregnancy and the rise of Barbie's impact on American society? Of course, there is also a question of indoctrination. We hold Barbie up as an icon for beauty which is great if you happen to be a blond blue eyed little girl, but what if you're a red head or a brunette? Heaven forbid you're asian, latina, or black. True, Barbie has been given minority friends to reflect our culturally diverse society, but what does that really do other than teach the nigh infamous phrase, "Oh, some of my best friends are (insert minority in question in the blank here)." I do not disagree that this is better than days gone by when minorities simply did not exist in "Barbie-world", but surely one can see there is a great deal of room for improvement. Of course, speaking of great amounts of room brings to mind Barbie's role as the poster for extreme materialism. Barbie has enough real estate to make people wonder if her last name might be Trump. (Just what is her last name anyway?) The woman has an apartment, a townhouse, a dream house, a mansion, and my personal favorite, the Dream Castle. Take a look at the Barbie garage and the picture becomes even more alarming. Where else could she part her bicycle, her scooter, her VW Beetle, her jeep, her SUV, her mini-van, her RV, or her signature pink corvette? There's a lot of horses under a lot of hoods so we'll simply not even mention the horses that have to be in ranch out back. Of course the reason for the excessive vehicle and housing count becomes obvious once you recognize the mechanism that drives this unstoppable juggernaut of materialism. All of those shoes and clothes have to be stored somewhere. Just what kind of job gets a person the extreme amount of material possessions that Barbie has? Barbie's careers have been numerous though. She's been a princess, a cheerleader, an Olympic gymnast, a nurse, a doctor, a lawyer, a fighter-pilot, a fire-fighter, a police-woman, an actress, and an astronaut. I think the only Barbie I haven't been able to find is "Heiress Barbie". This is not to say that any of these are bad jobs. Quite the contrary, i think it's great that girls have a successful role model. I believe that this could be done more effectively by allowing Barbie's friends to have professions outside of sports. Both Christie and Theresa, Barbie's black and hispanic friends respectively, play soccer and basketball. Both have dolls that have swimwear and cheerleader play sets, but both are oddly absent from the professional arena. Case in point- there is a Dr. Barbie, but no Dr. Christie or Dr. Theresa. Why couldn't Barbie be a doctor who happened to have a lawyer friend named Christie and a financial planner friend named Theresa? I'm not saying there should be no professional role models in toys; I believe there should be more. I also believe that the wealth needs to be spread a lot more so in this case. On the surface, the Barbie success story is just that- a story rife with tension yet ending happily in success. The questions must be asked though, just how much has this success cost us as a culture and are we willing to continue paying this outrageous cost? Are we willing to continue to allow this subversive indoctrination of the hearts and minds of our ? There is more at stake here than Barbie's little empire or even money. Parents need to understand the serious business that 's playtime truly is. A 's play is a major role in shaping that 's perception of reality- everything from relationships to jobs to ultimately how the grows to see himself/herself within the grand scheme of the universe. We owe our as undistorted a picture as that as humanly possible. Next up: Yeah, I despise Barbie, but wait til you hear what I've got to say about her loser boyfriend Ken. |
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Preach it. I think my mom saw this long before you mentioned it because she only bought me one Barbie ever and i think i made some comment abt her hair in reference to myself and she snatched that doll out of my hands and threw it away. I believe i cried abt it but then she started buyin me books abt ppl being doctors and gymnists and animal rescuers. Changed my outlook. Screw you Barbie!
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11/24/2009 6:19 am |
I had 3 different Barbies as kid but added 3 of her friends and G.I.JOE was Barbies boyfriend they got married and lived on an army base. Had kids and lived a normal life thanks to the way my Mom played with me. We had a soap opera of life but it potrayed a realistic lifestyle not a make believe unobtainable one. I also made my clothes for all the dolls and started the comments about how awkward it was to make her clothes compaired to PJ's and some of the others who seemed to be more flat chested. My explained that this was an unrealistic view of how a woman should look and not to ever try to look like her. It was not long till I did not play with them any longer. I really think that Barbie should be taken off the maket as she is seen and revamped we as a society are now not the size 5 that was in the 70's and 80's but and average size 10 and 12 so Barbie should also reflect these changes in her personna. This would give a realistic view of these young girls own bodies and not give them a complex about thier weight. I think if alot of people wrote Mattel and told them of our beliefs they might take notice and listen.
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AND WHERE THE HELL IS KENS COCK?  I have been saying for years that Barbie should be portrayed accurately of the "armpits" of American society....these are my ideas... 1. Trailer trash/toothless Barbie and wife beater Ken 2. Pregnant teen barbie and her interracial(or not) baby daddy Ken(with a VERY large cock) 3. BIG ASS Barbie(that shakes) and beanpole Ken (with a VERY large cock) 4. Porn star Barbie and Ken...extra accessories and STDs included.. 5. Many others....LOL!!! Unfortunately we are human beings and are continuously brainwashed and manipulated by marketing geniouses who understand our brain chemistry more than we do....its all business... Work to live: live for others :love passionately: love urself
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