Barbie B-Day----- QOTW

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 10:43am

Barbie is turning 50 today

They say a barbie is bought three times every second... (i dont know how they come up with this) However, after reading and finding out her Measurements have not changed. Except in 1990 something her waist was enlarged by i think two inches....

The question is. Do you think Barbie has helped or made worse the way little girls think of themselves? Why do you think that? Do you think it would be better for Barbie to change her measurements? as a bonus do you agree with Tattoo Barbie (you get to choose the tattoos for her to wear they are the washable kind?

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Registered: 02-07-2005
Mon, 03-09-2009 - 11:05am

Honestly I have no idea. My daughter has quite a few Barbie dolls (collector's and just for play) ... she was never TOTALLY into them. She played with them and that was the extent of it.


Even when I was little I never idolized or compared myself to a doll... *shrug*


I could careless about the measurments honestly. What good will it do to change them? Someone is ALWAYS going to find a problem with it. About the Tattoo Barbie? To each his own. I wouldn't buy it but that's just me.


 

 

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 11:14am

I never had a problem with Gabby having Barbie dolls.She loves all of Barbies pretty clothes.Plus afer all Barbie is just a doll and a toy nothing more.When I was growing up I loved playing with Barbie dolls my BFF and I would play for hours with them.BArbeis was always the mom and Ken was the dad,then Skippers was the older ddd and so no.I did have a friend growing up who was not allowed to have a Barbie,because Barbie had"breasts" and resembled a real women.Even when I was 7 and 8 I thought that was odd.I probley have more of a problem with a lot of the images out there of real women who are trying to be a size 0 or 00 when MOST women are not that tiny and a size 0 is an amolst impossible goal for MOST girls/women to acheive once they go through puberty.

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Registered: 07-26-1999
Mon, 03-09-2009 - 11:21am

Heck, was Barbie's waist even 2 inches in diameter to begin with??


I was never into Barbie's growing up, and neither was Jordyn much.

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 11:40am
hey Nicole nice to see you. feeling much better i hope?

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 11:42am
when they increased her waist. that number went up two. does not have much to say about her waist now its still small.... I played with barbies but jackie has no interest in them what so ever.

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 1:47pm
Yes FINALLY! It took the whole weekend to fully recuperate though. Stomach flu is so icky!


 

 

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 1:51pm
awwwww im so sorry. we miss you here. im glad your back though.

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 1:58pm

Well, this topic is one that makes me chuckle a bit, because it is an area in which *I* have evolved as a parent! I was one of those "NO BARBIE" parents, I resisted, hated, avoided, and otherwise thought they were evil and horrible (well, not evil, but creepy definitely!). I would only buy the Disney character brand, because those were CHARACTERS from a story, not a physical ideal. But of course my dd got barbies. Many many of them over time. She never played with them in any major way, and she's given them all away long ago. I'm still not in love with them but I don't see them as harmful either.

Here's a great article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090226/cm_csm/ymartin/print

I still can't stand Bratz though!

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 2:04pm
jackie was into a two month brat thing. but she did not play with them much. I thought they had too high of a shoe on and nothing covering their bodies and their heads were huge... lol but other than that we dont play with them anymore. Jackie did not like them much. Thanks for sharing the article.

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Mon, 03-09-2009 - 3:57pm

I only played with the Ballerina Barbie (the only one I ever owned) for about 2 years, and Sherina played with her Barbie collection (most were given to her by a then-teenaged neighbor) for 2 years.

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