thistlerosie:lemonsharks:taraljc:littlebabylarrie:tell me again, barbie is an anti feminist THIIIIII
thistlerosie:lemonsharks:taraljc:littlebabylarrie:tell me again, barbie is an anti feminist THIIIIIIIIIIISAs you know bob the highly stylized body forms are perhaps not the best thing to have the under-4s normalize, and Mattel has been working to correct that SNAFU for some years now. TL;DR I think a lot of the “Barbie is antifeminist” rhetoric comes from ages past–and dolls like the talking Barbie who declared that “Math class is hard” in 1994 or somewhere around there. Current barbie is actually pretty great. I grew up in the 80s and, to be honest, I thought Barbie was pretty great then too. I mean, yes, she was a fashion doll, but she was also a doctor, an astronaut, the president, a businesswoman, a home maker, a rock star… Her slogan was “We girls can do anything!” Sure she’s made some stumbles, but I think the people who attack Barbie are going after the wrong target.(And yes, I had body image issues. Did I ever! I still do. But they came from real people, not some plastic doll with permanently pointed toes and impossible proportions.)Anyway, the above GIF set is awesome. Mae Jemison is awesome. Barbie can be pretty awesome. -- source link
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