If Barbie hadn't been made the way she was made do you think there would'!


Question: be tall, skinny, blue eyed and blonde?
Barbie is just a toy, nothing more yet I find the whole love stories of Barbie and Ken getting married, getting divorced, people basing beauty on that toy and people blaming that toy for girls self image problems really demented!

It's a toy yet the maker had been some what bizarre with the whole body image, and the commercial with Ken.

Wouldn't have just been better if the Mattel had made Barbie with more realistic body, spent less time with gushing love stories between her and Ken?
Also, spending so much time trying to advertise her as a real human?


Answers: be tall, skinny, blue eyed and blonde?
Barbie is just a toy, nothing more yet I find the whole love stories of Barbie and Ken getting married, getting divorced, people basing beauty on that toy and people blaming that toy for girls self image problems really demented!

It's a toy yet the maker had been some what bizarre with the whole body image, and the commercial with Ken.

Wouldn't have just been better if the Mattel had made Barbie with more realistic body, spent less time with gushing love stories between her and Ken?
Also, spending so much time trying to advertise her as a real human?

No that's crap! Anyone that thinks they have to look a certain way because a doll looks that was needs some serious help. That's just people in society that are too lazy or unlucky to look like Barbie, and they are using this to make themselves feel better. It's just stupid to think that way.

I think you spend too much time thinking about Barbie, and that is NOT healthy...

True.They should have made a plus size barbie. But....not all the barbies were blonde. Some of her friends were brown/black haired. even red heads.

I NEVER looked at a barbie wishing to be her size! I was like 5!

i think girls base what they want to look like more off of celebrities/models and not barbie. i know i never wanted to look like barbie when i was younger (or any doll for that matter)

anyone basing their own self image on a doll

-- a DOLL! --

deserves a darwin award

you can't blame external stuff for everything

Have you seen the Malibu stacey episode of the Simpsons? Lisa tackles this issue head on with a successful buisness lady doll. Its brilliant.

And yes barbie dolls make me sick. My daughter's never gettin one.

(unless she

omg! this pisses me off! when i was little barbie had DD now she is like -A wtf?!and i think the same thing will happen with all the model dolls. sorry kids but only like 1/4 will ever be pretty enough or tall enough or skinny enough to be a model. it creates dreams them smashes them! but w.e i luv Barbie she is my b!tch.

No, I don't blame Barbie for that steretype. Media is more to blame, all the girls you see in magazines, TV ads, videos, etc. are skinny, tall, etc.

I agree, soo when are they gonna come out with some plus size barbies?? ha just K. When I was a little girl barbies were my absolute favorite thing to play with and I'd play with them all day, and not once did it enter into my head that I needed that body shape or that hair or whatever they had, I just spent my pure fun with my plastic pretty toys :]

are you serious! if barbie was fat and ugly, the so would the celbs and the young girls

Dont blame your ugliness and insecurity on barbie, blame genetics lovie.

I don't think its down to Barbie. Though I do think you bring up a good point, the doll is 'perfect'. I do blame it on celebrities though, but they are pressured into it themselves, any little change they make, creates a big huge storyline and they usually get slated. People lack confidence during the younger ages, so they see these celebrities as role models who are perfect and get everything they want, and they want to be like that.

I never played with Barbies when I was little ...I preferred the softer dolls when I played with dolls at all .....I was usally out playing football and climbing trees with my siblings .....
I always thought Ken looked like he should have been with Bobby instead of Barbie .....

The world doesn't want reality. People don't want reality. They want outrageous, too thin/thick/blonde/rich people to gawp at (Heat magazine exists for this reason)

People want plastic fake-ness. Mattel just gave them what they wanted.

I think it's time to stop playing with Barbies

i think you're taking it way too serious!!!...it's just a toy lol....i dunno why lot's of people think they should be blond or whatever...it's just a color and it's nice to change your hair color from time to time!!....also the skinny image didn't come from Barbie!!....it's unhealthy to be over weight that's all! ... :))

btw since when did health and image become pressure???....it's all in your head..if you think that being healthy and looking nice is a pressure then it is!..if you think it's not then it's really not!!!...



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Well I don't think that if Barbie hadn't been made the way she was there wouldn't be so much pressure-but it certainly doesn't help! I really do agree that its terrible that Barbies give little girls the idea that to be pretty you have to look like Barbie at such a young age. Its not just Barbie, its also all the celebrities that young girls look up to-all super skinny and perfect, especially supermodels, who look like they are going to die of starvation any second now. Seriously, if real girls were put as role models for little girls-there would be a lot less pressure about looks.
Nice question ;)

No, Barbie sells well because she's pretty. I mean, would you buy a doll that looked like Rosie O'Donnell? I think people want to be skinny because it's healthy. They want boob jobs so they can look sexier. People want to be tall like models... but really, it has little to do with a child's doll. I threw my Barbies out when I was 8.

yes thats what makes us girls

It wasn't the dolls that made the stereotype...

It was what the boys looked at on the real girls...

Blue-eyed blondes with long legs and big boobs were popular with the boys 50 years before Barbie came along....

I don't think barbie was the big problem, But models and tv , movie stars were all thin and tall or perfectly proportioned. That was what was pounded into everyones head. The older plain looking man with a 90 pound wife. The image problem has many sources. My cousins had brunette barbies. but that was 40 years ago. Bratz and other dolls are all factors, But the tv and movies were there were real live women that look impossibly thin and got the man every time I think has more impact.

Yes there would. Beauty pagents and vanity would still prevail.



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