Margaret Wolfe Hungerford’s coined phrase ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, no longer holds true in today’s society, it should now be read as ‘Beauty is in the eye of the advertising company’. Thank You Barbie!
Role model or not, Barbie has ruined the image of beauty in the world. Damn her! Or him for that matter. Yes women put your minds at ease, Barbie was created by a man.
Thank you Jack Ryan the thoughtful creator of Barbie. Some things you may not know about Jack Ryan: besides having a penis which somehow gives him absolute power in knowing the true aspects of a women's body, he was also a missile designer. Oh yea, I think I see lots of yellow light bulbs flashing. Barbie does resemble a torpedo after all.
Barbie was 'redesigned', if you will, a few years back because her proportions were very inaccurate. 'Researchers generating a computer model of a woman with Barbie-doll proportions…found that her back would be too weak to support the weight of her upper body…her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and a few centimeters of bowel. A real woman built that way would suffer from chronic diarrhea and eventually die from malnutrition.” (Media Awareness Network) I know I want to look like a Barbie doll now for sure and live life on the toilet bowl! Even with the new design she's still smaller than Karen Carpenter (In my defense I love Karen Carpenter).
Barbie isn't a good role model. Yes the girl could do numerous jobs, she is styling it as vet, wearing heels as a pediatrician, the girl even worked at McDonald's and could still afford her Barbie Dream House and Barbie Convertible, but other than that she's a shiny hard toy. A child can't seek emotional happiness from Barbie, you can't even hug Barbie without her fingers poking your eye. And after a week of use, Barbie has lost both of her heels, a shirt and her hair is so frizzy and natty you can't even put your own comb through it without it breaking. Barbie sucks!
One adolescent boy argued 'I blame Barbie for the Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez craze. I also blame Barbie for the craze in implants and liposuction to become good looking. I also think that Barbie has made a demand ... for beauty salons and operations to become beautiful.' (BNet) Barbie even has men bashing her now, but she's still as popular as ever. WHY?!
40 years ago the average models weight was 8% less than the average female, today it's 23% less. Thanks Jack and your ideal female fantasy.
There's one women out there who started standing against the airbrushing Barbie effect. Give it up for Jamie Lee Curtis! In a 2002 edition of More Magazine, Curtis refused to be airbrushed and asked to pose in her skivvy's to show women of the world, she's just as flawed as everyone else. Go Jamie Go!
Kirsty Brinkley has even been reported saying that 'If I were standing next to a model of today, you’d only notice me on the page because I’d take up more room.'
Conclusion, the Barbies of the world need to go. Women who try to make themselves look like a plastic torpedo need to hit the self destruct button. Impressionable little girls need positive role models not the Victoria Secret models of the world telling them what's 'fierce'. Oh yea Tyra I went there.
