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Barbie has a new look

Friday, 29 January 2016, 16:00 MJA Uncategorized 27

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CNS: NEW YORK (AP) — At 57, Barbie is getting a major makeover.
The iconic plastic doll, whose small waist and long legs have been criticized for creating unrealistic expectations for girls, will soon be sold with three new bodies — curvy, tall and petite. Barbie will also be more diverse, coming in seven skin tones, 22 eye colors and 24 hairstyles. more

Snip: Why do they only have 7 skin tones, but have 22 eye colors?

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And what’s with Ken? Transgender?

27 Comments on Barbie has a new look

  4. I wonder if they’ll release a Tess Holliday Barbie that is morbidly obese with a bunch of hideous tattoos so that “body type” won’t feel left out. It might be cost prohibitive though because of the huge amount of plastic and ink it would take to make it look realistic.

  11. Lol skin tone on Barbies! All my daughter’s Barbies had black scratched skin tone from the blacktop driveway. At one point we got her one of those fancy American Girl dolls, it lasted 2 weeks before she too had the blacktop stripe from chin to forehead.

  12. I didn’t know who Tess Holliday was until I googled the name. She has a beautiful face, hideous tats and about 130lbs too much to be average. Ouch!

    I hope she doesn’t sleep on a waterbed in a bedroom with hardwood floors.

  14. Jane – BFH did a post a few days ago about her putting out a calendar with her semi-nude photos. She’s basically trying to make everyone else agree with her about how beautiful she is.

  17. Did little girls demand all these changes or did their SJW older sisters and crazy Moms? When you are the age to play with these dolls you really haven’t grown into the adult version of the body types they are selling…you are still a kid.

    I had a Barbie. I was a skinny bespeckled brunette tomboy. Where was MY doll? She was flung into the yard playing parachute with GI Joe.

  19. FWIW, researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (Malibu Barbie’s alma mater) calculated that the original Barbie, were she a human being, would have to walk on all fours because her lower body could not support her chest in a standing/walking position.

  24. From the article:
    Kumea Shorter-Gooden, co-author of “Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America,” has said in the past that Barbie has a bigger impact on black girls struggling with messages about skin color and hair. Shorter-Gooden applauded Mattel “for diversifying the size and look of Barbie,” but noted that “European-American hair still prevails,” and that the dolls’ outfits still “convey a traditional and constraining gender norm about how girls and women should look.”

    Translation:
    “I am an unattractive, obese black woman who dresses like the people of Walmart, and I should be considered normal”

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