It turns out that in the modern world, not only women with shapes are forced to defend their right to be called beautiful, but also dolls.
At the end of January, Mattel released the next generation Barbie for the first time in 57 years of its existence. Four body types, seven skin tones, 22 eye shades and 24 hairstyles. And here’s what’s amazing: in the XNUMXst century, we take it for granted that everyone’s eye, hair, and skin colors can be different, but we are fighting hard against the fact that our figures are also very different.
Time magazine featured a shaped Barbie on the cover with the headline “Can I stop talking about my body now?” Of course not. Commentators don’t hold back:
“It’s called fat, not mold.”
“Fat Pig Barbie! 100 years ago, we had no problem with obesity. This is now a common problem. You don’t need to create fat models, you need to change your behavior. “
“This is not a toy, this is an idea of the ‘fatty’ norm that is promoted through the doll. Girls don’t like fat Barbies, despite all the brainwashing. “
And, perhaps, it is difficult to disagree with this. With the fact that a new type of Barbie is really part of a large modern campaign that beauty knows no boundaries or dimensions. For example, I learned the news about revolutionary dolls from blogs of plus-size models. “Finally a Barbie that we have something in common with,” captioned the toy picture Ashley Graham, who made a similar revolution last summer when she became the first girl with curves to appear in Sports Illustrated. And this is just a drop in the sea of delight that comes from her colleagues: non-standard and beautiful girls who devote most of their posts to the fact that “all women are different and all are beautiful in different ways.”
But somewhere in the parallel beauty industry of reality, teachers and doctors argue how much our toys affect children’s consciousness. British scientists a few years ago concluded that girls who grew up playing with Barbie dolls are less fond of their bodies and are more likely to try to lose weight than those who played with other types of dolls or grew up without them at all. Maybe this is how you should look at the new Barbies? That they are all different, just like us, and for you to have a beautiful home, fashionable outfits and a beloved Ken, you don’t have to be a leggy blonde with missing lower ribs for a thin waist.
Interview
How do you like the new Barbie?
It’s just a doll, I don’t understand all this hype around
Finally! Dolls should be different so as not to form complexes in girls
Too much attention is paid to this topic of thin-fat, this increases complexes in adolescents and is confusing
I don’t like Barbies at all, they were once a girls’ dream because there was no alternative
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