Barbie doll is celebrating the 50th anniversary. Unfortunately. From my point of view, this terrible doll should have been banned many years ago but it sells so much money that no company wants to turn its profit down.
When I was a small girl, I used to own few barbies but I didn’t play with them so much. I would always think: “Why are they so thin and beautiful?” I didn’t like the fact that they are all the same – good looking, happy, wearing fashionable clothes. And nowadays it all seems worse to me when I read articles about Barbie syndrome and look at photos of Cindy Jackson, who after countless plastic surgeries resembles big Barbie doll. I read about girls’ desires to have a physical appearance of the famous Barbie.
In recent years some people began to draw attention to the fact that Barbie’s body image is unrealistic and that it can bring young girls on anorexia or bulimy. From Wikipedia.org: “A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, giving a height of 5 feet 9 inches at 1/6 scale. Barbie’s vital statistics have been estimated at 36 inches (chest), 18 inches (waist) and 33 inches (hips). According to research by the University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, she would lack the 17 to 22 percent body fat required for a woman to menstruate.” If a Barbie was a real woman, she wouldn’t be able to have babies or even walk because of her waist. Barbie’s waist has been widened recently but in my opinion her appearance is still unacceptable.
If you read something about Barbie’s history, Barbie’s fashion style, Barbie syndrome or how to become a Barbie, you might get desperate and angry exactly as I did. And then you can become an Antibarbie.
