What do you think is wrong with barbies?

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Answer 1

We once did a study in class where we tried to figure out how your body would need to be to be porportionate to Barbie's. Put it this way...YOU WOULD HAVE AN 18 inch long neck!!!
I think what is wrong with Barbie is that it makes little girls think that they would like to look like this skinny blonde bimbo looking doll. Although in some ways she is a good role model for showing some girls that women can be anything...They also give these young girls a false idea of what a female body should look like. Realisticly, have you ever seen a Barbie with an AVERAGE build, or hey...EVen a fat barbie?? Nope..never, because this is how they are to look so young girls who can be very impressionable and are looking for a role model would think they would like to LOOK like her...And be her. Or perhaps little girls who have a low self esteem would be affected by her.
Also, one little thing about Barbie as a role model... The one barbie that should have not be made was the pregnant barbie....

Answer 2

I spent countless hours playing with Barbies and never found anything wrong with them.

Of course my story lines were really odd, I can see that now.

People can say how mispositioned the Barbie of the 80's was, but it wasn't her body that I was interested in. It was her clothes and accessories!!!

Answer 3

Not much if the child 's imaginative play is stimulated, I suppose. The reverse of this is that boys may be encouraged into literacy through their action figure play with dolls such as Action Man.

I personally do not like them. There has to be something wrong with a figure whose waist measurement is smaller than the distance between her eyes! I think, too, it encourages small children into the world of glamour far too early, although, as another respondent has pointed out, these dolls seem to break with the stereotypical mold.

Answer 4

experience: it makes kids think that they have to be blonde, extremely thin and fancily dressed to look pretty. Can you imagine a normal 6 year old saying, "Mummy, I need to lose weight"? It's horrible. I cannot imagine how much insecurity and eating disorders it can cause for children. People neednot be "gorgeous" to feel good.

Of course, banning them is not the way, but mothers have to repeat over and over that barbies are just imaginary characters and believe me, it's hard to convince kids.

Answer 5

They have a perfect figure, which has been led to believe before why some girls don't like their own bodies. They want the perfect figure. Some people believe that is some of the reason girls have eating disorders.


****** I thought though a few years back that they changed Barbie to make her less busty, and more hippy... I dunno my girls aren't into Barbie.

Answer 6

They give girls an impression they should look a certain way.Its impossible to look like a barbie doll!

Answer 7

She represents an unattainable physicality. If a live person, her measurements would be 39-23-33.

Answer 8

Their bodies are unrealistically shaped
The toys and accessories tend to show shallow values
Much of their clothing isn't modest
They are made in sweatshops, which I prefer not to support

Answer 9

Not realistic in any shape or form. A human can never look like the doll.

Answer 10

They are misproportioned to be very busty, thin waisted and highly elongated and she is deeply into conspicuous consumption.

She originally started life as a german gag gift, Lilli, who was a bit of a tramp