Barbie ~ Did we really need her?

Mine was a honey blonde in a turquoise dress.
She was a kind of grown up doll I played with through the start of puberty. 🤔

@drewnogal

i heard that ken and gi joe are living together in san francisco now.

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Actually my elder sister as a child always longed for a Barbie and didn't get one, since we did not need her...I am not sure her daughters had Barbies.

@ponderable said
@drewnogal

Actually my elder sister as a child always longed for a Barbie and didn't get one, since we did not need her...I am not sure her daughters had Barbies.

my sister had Sindy dolls ,more refined.

@drewnogal said
Mine was a honey blonde in a turquoise dress.
She was a kind of grown up doll I played with through the start of puberty. 🤔

I didn’t need her, but my Action Man was beating her off with a ski pole.

@ponderable said
@drewnogal

Actually my elder sister as a child always longed for a Barbie and didn't get one, since we did not need her...I am not sure her daughters had Barbies.

You do realise that your nation had the idea first in 1955 with the Bild Lilli doll and that the Americans kidnapped her and surgically transformed her into Barbie 3 years later.

Disgraceful!

@drewnogal said
Mine was a honey blonde in a turquoise dress.
She was a kind of grown up doll I played with through the start of puberty. 🤔

Barbie personified an ideal for several generations of girls. It took Mattel ages to update the doll with a black-skinned Grace-line that wasn't simply a White-Barbie dyed dark.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219257/Barbie-launch-black-doll-look-like-real-people-having-fuller-features.html

However, I'm not altogether sanguine about the ideal of beauty which the dolls represent. I mean, they're either anatomically impossible or anorexic: too long legs, too thin ankles, wasp-waisted, etc.

OK, so boys' toy dolls (Justice League, DC Comics, etc.) are equally absurd ...

All in good fun, so long as girls don't go bulimic trying to emulate them.

@moonbus
I must have modelled myself on Ken. I wore fatigues in my art college days.

Barbie was an invention of the devil, she created whole generations of girls with poor self-images. Nobody could ever live up to the Barbie ideal.

@kewpie said
Barbie was an invention of the devil, she created whole generations of girls with poor self-images. Nobody could ever live up to the Barbie ideal.

Barbie and Ken, 'the perfect couple'.

@drewnogal said
@moonbus
I must have modelled myself on Ken. I wore fatigues in my art college days.

Good for you, Drew. Break the mold.

@kewpie said
Barbie was an invention of the devil, she created whole generations of girls with poor self-images. Nobody could ever live up to the Barbie ideal.

Sort of agree with you but my 4 year-old insisted on Barbie for xmas.
As compensation she has some chubby baby dolls too.

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Now where on earth would you get an idea like that from?

@drewnogal said
Now where on earth would you get an idea like that from?

That's a rhetorical question right? Good God Drew. it's HOH. 😀