Barbie's Evolving Body Image

Barbie Doll Alternate Ending
Head Less "You are so pretty," my best friend said, while we were walking to my mom's car. "Thank
you so much," you are always so nice to me. "So what are we gonna play when we come home?" I
asked. "Oh, I know," she said. She looked at me, I looked at her. "Barbie dolls," we said at the same
time. When we came home, we threw our backpacks on the floor, and ran upstairs. "Come on," I
yelled. "I am right behind you," my best friend said. When we came to my room, we grabbed the
barbie doll box, and threw all the barbie dolls on the floor. I looked at all the pretty barbie dolls,
trying to pick the best one. "There it is," I thought to myself. The barbie doll with the long, blond
hair was lying on the floor next to all the other barbie doll. I looked at it for a second, thinking that
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"Too bad it is my barbie doll," I said, with a weird feeling in my stomach. "It's not fair, you always
pic that one" she said. "There is nothing to do about it" I thought to myself. I kept pulling as hard as
I could. I could feel in my hand that she was pulling too. "Yes," I thought to myself, "I got it." I
looked at my best friend. "Wait, what, how did that happen" , she was holding the barbie doll too. I
looked at the barbie doll. "Oh no," I said, the barbie doll's head fell off when we were pulled. That is
why we both were holding the barbie doll. She was holding the body, and I has held the head. "What
happened," my friend asked. I didn't know what to say, so I just laughed. She laughed too. We
laughed for such a long time. When we stopped laughing, I tried to fix the barbie doll, but I couldn't.
"Maybe my mom can fix it," I said. "Good idea," .We went downstairs, and we gave the barbie doll
to my mom. "Can you fix it," I said. "I can try," my mom said. My mom took the barbie doll's body,
and I gave her the head and she pushed the body and the head together as hard as she
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The Influence Of Barbie Dolls
Many children learn life skills from the toys they play with. Legos teach children how to build
objects while following direction. Coloring books help kids with motor skills and creativity. Even
basketballs, and footballs teach kids teamwork and physical endurance. Barbie dolls show girls that
they have to be put together, wear heels, and have the perfect life with the perfect car and the perfect
boyfriend. The old Barbie doll was very unhealthy in the way she looked, and this showed girls a
bad example on what their bodies needed to look like. New Barbies are made to show what a
healthy person should look like. They have new body types like curvy, short, and tall to show that
not everyone looks the same. Old Barbies brought young girls' confidence down because of their
unhealthy body type, while new Barbies, with more body types, skin tones, and eye colors, boost
girls' confidence. Barbies are a huge part of American girls' culture, and their unhealthy body was
making young girls less confident. A study showed that after girls looked at Barbies their self–
esteem went down, while girls who saw a more realistic doll felt no change in their self–esteem
(APA Staff). This is important because Barbies are a large part of American culture, so if
playing/looking at Barbies makes girls' self–esteem go down, that means many girls in America
must have some type of body confidence issue. To add on to this point, the old version of Ken as
well as Barbie shows an unhealthy body type,

Stereotypes: The Evolution Of The Barbie Doll
In the past couple of decades, we have experienced exuberant advancements in every category
imaginable, including toys. The well–known toy brand Mattel introduced a thin, blonde doll named
Barbie in 1959. Since her debut to the market, Mattel has sold well over 1 billion Barbie dolls. But
the dramatic changes made to Barbie since her creation are extremely evident. As much as the doll
has changed with the times, the most noticeable changes seem to be over the course of the past few
decades.
The Barbie dolls of the 1990's and early millennium were too scantily clad for the likings of some
parents. As shown in the photo from an advertisement on Barbie Fashionista's, the wardrobe of the
dolls didn't have much clothing to it at all. Realistically, there were some of the dolls that were
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In ads from decades past, Barbie was the stereotypical Caucasian, tall, blonde girl who every young
girl desired to have in her toy–box. But the negative effects of the expectations and ideal that she
would enforce into the minds of young girls would become an extremely heated topic among
parents.
Barbie of the early 2000's became more and more controversial as time passed. Evident in the ad
below, the dolls provocative attire was the root of an uproar from parents who thought that the doll
represented nothing less of a sexual icon with some of the fashions that the doll would begin
wearing. Along with the fashion sense change, the body of the doll became smaller from the 1990's
through the early 2000's. The waist became accentuated, thus making a Barbie dolls body
measurements merely unachievable for the natural woman, with a mere 16 inch

Barbie Doll Body Image
Pauline Smith
Professor Rodriguez
ENC 1101
26 October 2016
Body Shaming Barbies
The Barbie doll has been a popular play toy for young girls since the late 1950s. Although the
Barbie doll seem like an innocent toy, it has had an effect on little girls' body images. Many studies
have shown an association between young girls playing with Barbies and eating disorders. Even
grown women want to resemble Barbie so badly that they start to do surgery on their bodies which
can be very dangerous. This has led to the term, Barbie Syndrome, which refers to "the drive, often
of adolescent girls, to attain impossible standards of beauty, projected by toys–e.g., Mattel's Barbie
Doll–and the media, resulting in failure and frustration, issues related to body ... Show more content
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Barbie and other company are creating a new doll that have a more realistic and attainable body
which is good for younger girls to play with.
As we planned the workshop, we discussed our own personal ambivalences about Barbie's collusion
with heteropatriarchal, consumerist culture, while at the same time acknowledging the remembered
pleasures of childhood doll–play...(Reid–Walsh and Mitchell 2001). In developing the workshop
format, we tried to provide enough structure and eclectic raw materials to invite focused thinking
about embodied femininity, but without imposing our own expectations about how the girls "should"
view Barbie and reinvent or remake her ( Collins, Lidinsky, Rusnock, and Torstrick 106–107).
After so many years of condemnation that Barbie's looks did not reflect her diverse audience, Mattel
(a toy company that produce Barbies), struggle to boost sales. Mattel introduced the Fashionistas
line in the late 2013– 2015. The Fashionistas line includes more multiculturalism dolls. Mattel
decided that they will bring out dolls with three new realistic body types with seven skin tones,
twenty–two eye colors and twenty–four hairstyles. The doll new will include petite, tall and

Barbie Doll Is Bad
An Imperfect Barbie Doll In today's society, there are many people who strive to show that
perfection has never really existed, that each individual woman is beautiful as herself, the way she
is, and that no one is the same. Contemporary culture works to prove the fact that people are all
different shapes, sizes, and colors, and that that's okay. People's differences are what make them all
perfect in their way; likewise, things that may be considered "weaknesses" and "flaws" are also
inherently our own and thus part of what makes them who they are. As the years pass more and
more people are recognizing the harmful way that society and particularly modern media impose
harmful expectations upon women. It is high time for all people to wake the ... Show more content
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It can make people gain confidence, and therefore improve their social lives. Some people may have
scars that remind them of traumatic incidents, so they have surgery to remove it. Some people may
have medical conditions causing deformation and are relieved to be able to surgically fix that, such
as people who receive nose jobs to help breathing issues. Some people have surgery to fix physical
features created out of accidents, illness, or a serious infection. But if someone want a plastic
surgery to be happy, to feel better, and to have more self–esteem about themselves then it might
work for them but it cannot really match exactly what they imagined in their mind because they are
plastic surgeons, not miracle workers. The recovery part after the surgery is also painful and could
takes up their time from spending time with their friends, family, or seeing their kids play sports or
ballet recital or whatever they are doing together for a while since they are in a recovery

Barbie Doll: Is Barbie The Ideal Woman?
Is Barbie the ideal woman? For generations she's been the doll that little girls have aspired to be–a
party girl, career woman and bathing beauty all wrapped into one . In Marge Piercy's poem entitled
"Barbie Doll," the title underscores the theme of the poem, which is that girls are ultimately and
fatally entrapped by society's narrow definitions of feminine behavior and beauty. By comparing the
young lady in the poem to a Barbie doll, the author reveals the irony of the title. In the poem, the
speaker is a person aware of the events taking place in a young girl's life. However, the speaker is
not aware of her feelings about what is happening. The poem is told in a matter–of–fact way, much
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The author continues her comparison of the now, perhaps, teenage girl in the second stanza: She was
healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual
dexterity She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs. Here, the author
shows how the girl possesses gifts and may have been unique. However, she is forced to confine
herself to what society wants her to be. In the first line of the stanza, it is obvious that the girl is
intelligent, much like Barbie is supposed to be. After all, over the years Barbie has had many
occupations that require good educations, among them teacher, dentist, and even astronaut.
However, the fact that the girl is healthy and has healthy arms and a strong back is anything but
similar to Barbie. Based on Barbie's measurements, if Barbie were a real person, she would more
than likely be anorexic. It is obvious by looking at the doll that she has thin, weak looking arms and
may even have back pains due to her large chest. In line ten it is obvious that the girl in the poem is
giving in to the way society wants

Marge Piercy's Barbie Doll
Society always had an influence over individual lives, and especially the most on women. Society
sets these expectations for women especially concerning their appearance. The poem "Barbie Doll"
by Marge Piercy demonstrates the cruelty that women of all ages face when they cannot fit into
society standards and how it can be damaging to them.
Piercy describes an image of a normal girl child who goes through puberty and gets made fun of her
changes in appearance. She describes her as "usual" to emphasize she was born like any other
normal child (line 1). The succeeding lines show that she played with "dolls that did pee–pee and
miniature GE stoves and iron" (line 2–3). The toys provided to the girl child symbolized feminism.
It represents the kind of duties women were expected to learn. In addition, she had to manage to
look good to fit into society. "Lipsticks the color of cherry candy" (line 4), were provided for her to
look pretty and cover any flaws. The "magic of puberty" hits her and a classmate criticizes her for
having a "big nose" and "fat legs" (line 5–6). Being made fun of caused the girl child to feel insure
and question her appearance.
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She lays in a "casket displayed on satin" (line 19), casket symbolizing the girl being kept in a big
Barbie box. "Dressed in a pink and white nightie" (line 22), pink symbolizes feminity while white
symbolizes purity. Now that she has passed she looks prettier because she covered with the
"undertaker's cosmetics and has a new putty nose" (line 20–21). She appears to look like someone
she is not. Piercy use of sarcasm at the last line "to every women a happy ending" shows how the
society poisons a woman's thinking that in order to have a happy ending, women have to mold
themselves into a perfect shape like a Barbie doll as wanted by

The Positive And Negative Effects Of Barbie Dolls
The Positive and Negative Effects of Barbie Dolls in Society All around our world we are constantly
being told what we should act and be like for females and males. Barbie was born on March 9, 159
in the American International Toy Fair in New York. The Barbie doll has been influencing young
girls ever since she was born. The Barbie doll have a huge influence on the way that girls perceive
their role in society and also on the way they develop. Barbie dolls in some way reflect and
influence our society values. Especially in our society today many views on the way Barbie dolls
influence our society are often negative and their ability to positively influence young females is
often denied. The Barbie Doll has been a cultural icon ever since it was first revealed. All over the
world anyone can recognize what Barbie look like and what she symbolizes. The original design of
the Barbie came up when the creator, Ruth Handler, noticed a pattern of her daughter being attracted
to a mature looking dolls instead of the baby doll. She then came up with "the notion of creating a
three–dimensional version of a shapely, fashionable young–woman doll"(Maynard). Mattel's
influence around the world can be seen by the sales section on their Annual Report. In 2015 Barbie
made Mattel a gross profit of 905.9 million dollars (Annual Report). Mattel is the number one
toymaker in the world. The Barbie and all her thousands of accessories that can be bought for he
bring in billions of dollars and

Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" portrays a young girl's life as she matures and learns about society's
norm regarding beauty. The moment the girl grows into puberty is also the same moment she gets
pulled into society's perception of beauty. Piercy's "Barbie Doll" reveals that society's view/norm of
beauty is only skin deep. In the final stanza of "Barbie Doll," Piercy indicates to his readers that due
to society's norm/view of beauty people feel the need to change their physical appearance in order to
look pretty also well as to be called pretty. Critic Ira Mark Milne argues the following "The dolls,
stove, iron and lipstick are all traditional playthings for young girls, but they are also markers of an
identity in the making, the things that young girls grow to idenitfy with their own social roles"(35).
This is true "Barbie Doll" describes how the girl grows up with toys that start to portray society's
role of woman "and miniature GE stoves and irons" indicates that a woman place is in the kitchen.
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Piercy's use of word choice adds to the imagery presented throughout the poem. The narrator reveals
the best of Piercy's imagery in third and final stanza of "Barbie Doll." Readers get the imagery that
young girl was happy with herself but society does not view her the same. She, the young girl, was
just a "fat nose on thick legs." She was advised to fit into society's norm and become something she
wasn't "exercise, diet, smile and wheedle." The most vivid imagery in the third stanza is when the
narrator reveals that the young girl becomes tired of being who she really is and surrenders to fit into
society, "So she cut off her nose and her legs/and offered them up." Another vivid imagery comes in
the final stanza: "In the casket displayed on satin she lay/ with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on,
/ a turned–up putty nose/ dressed in pink and white

Persuasive Essay On Barbie Doll
In my opinion, I believe that kids should be playing with dolls that have normal features, or with
action figures where the superheroes muscles/features should resemble to what an average person's
features should look like. Even though barbies help entertain girls and inspire them, I still believe
that girls should be playing with dolls that have normal features. People aren't really aware about the
things kids actually thought about themselves when they play with barbie dolls or action figures.
There are girls as young as five that are concerned about their body image. They believe that the
way the barbie looks like is the same way they should look like when they get older. It isn't just girls
that think about this boys do to. Boys

The Barbie Doll
The newest Barbie doll just came out and I am freaking out. I am in elementary school and still
obsessed with tiaras and shiny things. I want the new doll with straight blonde hair and a skinny
waist. The doll is beautiful. I play with my other dolls at home as I listen to my grandmother oogle
over my curly brown hair and chubby cheeks. "Look at that beautiful girl" she says as I make my
dolls go shopping. The other adults sitting around the table agree and make other comments.
"Pure beauty."
"Gorgeous."
"Completely stunning."
I listen to them admire me but continue to ignore them. I just want to play with my dolls.
I walk into my middle school for the first time. I am scared but I hold myself together with the
confidence that I will be liked by everyone. I always have, why would anything change? I manage
to make friends and they are very nice people. But I notice that we are a group of 3 and all the other
friend groups have 6 or more. I notice that they all have straight blonde hair and skinny waists. They
look just like my dolls at home. I try to start a conversation with one of the groups. They smirk at
me, indicating that I need to go back to my own table. Why don't they like me? I try to talk to the
doll look–alikes again. They continue to ignore me. Frustrated, I ask "Why don't you like me?" The
answer leaves a painful mark on my mind and affects my view of myself in this world.
"You're fat"
I stand there shocked, wondering if everyone,

Sexism In Barbie Doll
In the poem "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy portrays the sexism that is placed upon women from an
early age. Stereotyping their role in society as a mother, homemaker, or a pretty object. Mentioning
in her poem the gifts of dolls, stoves and irons, and make–up to make her point. The title of the
poem "Barbie Doll" automatic gives the reader a sense of what the meaning of the poem is about. In
her poem she raises the question of what is acceptable beauty in today's society. In society views,
beauty is symbolized in the figure of a Barbie doll. Tall, thin, with perfect features.
Even thou a woman may possess other qualities as mentioned in the poem, the words healthy,
sound, solid, and a healthy sex drive. Her physical features are

Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy is a poem that highlights the difficulties that young girls, adolescents,
and woman are confronted by society. There are many interpretations of the ending of the poem.
Two of which are suicide and plastic surgery. Most people believe the child committed suicide
because of the intense pressure of trying to be the perfect image like the Barbie doll. Although the
poem has a depressing tone, the poem itself brings out legitimate points.
Barbie has been the icon for more than fifty years for all woman. At the beginning of the poem, the
unnamed girl has obtained modern toys and seems to be happy during her childhood. The girl is
given dolls, miniature home appliances, and fake makeup. During the childhood years, most

Obsession In Barbie Doll And The Birthmark
Everybody can to relate to being a "Barbie Doll" themselves. Despite being told nobody is perfect
we all strive to be perfection. So we focus on the things that make us less than perfect to improve
ourselves but focusing on the imperfections make us destroy our end goal. Everybody has some type
of obsession but at one point we all have a common enemy – ourselves. Our bodies come in
different shapes and stains but it's our job to keep healthy and not obsess about ourselves but
unfortunately it tends to happen a lot. The worst part is anything could be an obsession whether it's a
video–game, a birthmark, or having to big a nose and fat legs. In both "Barbie Doll" and "The
Birthmark" the two main female characters both die for similar reasons – they both become
obsessed with something that other people tell them. Georgiana in "The Birthmark" never thought
her unique birthmark was a defect but instead a charm. But once her husband says it makes her look
ugly she undoubtedly believes him.
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Aylmer has not only sickening distaste for Georgiana's birthmark but also an obsession of control
(even when it comes to things he can't control). Ayler goes so far to control Georgiana's near perfect
looks but to also control nature itself, and it wasn't Aylmer who had to pay for his sins at the end of
this story. Georgiana dies at the end of "The Birthmark" due to her husband's ambitions and it took
seconds near death for Georgiana to tell Aylmer how selfish he was to try to control a higher power.
"With so high and pure a feeling, you have rejected the best the earth could offer. Aylmer, my
dearest Aylmer, I am dying!" ( Hawthorne 324). It took Georgiana's last few seconds to realize how
she didn't need Aylmer and how selfish he was, afterall she was the closest living thing near
perfection. Single handedly Aylmer destroyed the closest living thing to

The Beauty Of The Barbie Fashion Doll
Humans by nature want what they can't get. It's true, we as a species are materialistic. Many of us
want the fastest cars, the biggest houses, the heftiest paychecks, the coolest clothes, and the hottest
bodies. We are also incredibly impressionable; one Budweiser commercial, for example, may
convince us to go out and buy Budweiser brand beer. An Apple commercial can inadvertently coax
thousands of average citizens to drop what they are doing, camp for days outside of the local Best
Buy, and wait impatiently to purchase the newest iPhone which includes the newest, most overrated
feature to date. Even the toys we manufacture perpetuate this endless cycle of unnecessary wants
and desires.
According to that archaic proverb, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's ironic how we hear and
repeat this phrase all the time yet we don't practice what we preach. A good example of this can be
found with the popularity of the Barbie fashion doll. Something as simple as a piece of plastic with
fake hair, exaggerated body features, and miniature outfits can instill in young girls across the world
the "standard of beauty". With this fragile, impressionable persona that we have engrained in women
over time, it seems as if we are driving them to their own demise. Through the use of modern day
media, toys, and fashion, we have been betraying women across the globe by mistreatment,
underrepresentation, and by sexualizing them.
We blatantly sexualize and misrepresent women with the toys we

In the poem entitled "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy, a feminist, wrote this poem in 1973, which is
around the time of the Feminist Movement. The poem has a total of four stanzas and no rhyme
scheme, so it would be considered a free or blank verse poem. There are two main themes. The first
theme is the overwhelming need to be attractive and be perfect in the eyes of society and the want to
live up to or exceed the expectations of others and the second is that the poem is basically an
imitation of social acceptance. In the first stanza, the speaker talks of the toys that the girl had as a
child, the baby doll, the little pretend stove, irons, little red lipsticks, they symbolized the type of
work a woman would do (Line 2–4). In lines five through

Analysis Of Barbie Doll
Vying for Perfection (1a) The poem "Barbie Doll" written by Marge Piercy contains several
denotations and connotations throughout the work. Denotation, signifying the literal meaning or
dictionary definition, whereas connotation signifies the various meanings related to the word. In the
poem, the words "cosmetics" (20) and "happy ending" (25) stood out. The poet writes, "In the casket
displayed on satin she lay / with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, / a turned–up putty nose, /."
(lines 19–21) Cosmetics as presented in Webster's Dictionary is "relating to or making for beauty
especially of the complexion." The reader could also interpret that word as maybe not just to look
better but to also mask the internal struggle that the individual is dealing with. Using make–up,
women more–so like to paint a facade to feel and look a certain way to attract others, as the woman
in the poem does. Going to the next phrase, "happy ending", denotes that it will end on a good note
for the protagonist. "To every woman a happy ending. (line 25)" Happy ending could also be
characterized, especially in this poem as the opposite. The woman throughout the poem is struggling
to appeal like a "Barbie Doll" on the exterior and wants to fulfill society's own preference for
beautiful causing the female to resort to physical harm. "She was advised to pay coy, / exhorted to
come on hearty, / exercise, diet, smile, and wheedle." (lines 12–14) As emphasized she was someone
that she is not for

Barbie Dolls : The Great Eras Collection
Barbie dolls are trying to improve their race representation by creating more diverse Barbies so that
little girls of different ethnicities don't feel left out. According to Kristina Milnor, "between 1993
and 1997 the American toy company Mattel produced the "Great Eras Collection," a series of Barbie
dolls dressed to represent historical moments ranging from Eighteenth–Dynasty pharaonic Egypt
through 1920s America" (215). Mattel released ten different Barbies in the Great Eras Collection in
hopes of having a more diverse line, along with Mattel's trademark Barbie. The ten different Barbies
come from different historical periods that have different skin colors and have different clothing to
represent racial diversity. In hopes of trying to boost little girls of color self–esteem, Mattel tried to
make the line as diverse as possible, but there is a problem. According to Milnor, "here are ten dolls
in all, beginning (since they appeared out of chronological order) with Gibson Girl Barbie,
proceeding to Flapper Barbie, Egyptian Queen Barbie, Southern Belle Barbie, Medieval Lady
Barbie, Elizabethan Queen Barbie, Grecian Goddess Barbie, Victorian Lady Barbie, French Lady
Barbie, and finally Chinese Empress Barbie," which are all considered high class status (215). This
is a problem because it does not reflect all little girls. There is race representation in this line but
having all the dolls portrayed as high social class does not represent most of the little girls playing
with

Barbie Doll Marge Piercy Analysis
In her poem ' Barbie Doll,' Marge Piercy discusses society's expectations from women, particularly
young girls. Society does expect that young girl should be perfect, like a 'Barbie Doll'. The poem is
about a character who fights with herself about having a perfect body image. This character
struggles and shows that society only pays attention to physical appearance and not on inner beauty.
Piercy also maintains that people put more social expectations on young girls. Lastly, she mentions
that society never accepts young girls who can not be ideal women. As young girls grow up, the
society wants them to look and behave a specific way, but when they give up, they might lose
identities. Throughout the poem, Piercy applies vivid imagery, different word choices, and a tone of
sadness and depression to make her readers more compassionate.
Marge Piercy uses the image of a barbie to write about culture of society. Piercy uses vivid imagery
when she started the poem, ' and presented dolls that did pee–pee/and miniature GE stoves and
irons/and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy' (2–4). In this set, Piercy describes girl's typical
nature. She uses 'pee–pee' to show the ' potty exercise.' of girls. The poet also implies that girls are
ready to be mothers. The 'stoves and irons' are used in the poem for 'cooking and cleaning' and show
the type of work girls supposed to do. They also describe ideal duties of a mother and they are
mentioned to show that girls are ready to do housewives's tasks. 'Wee lipsticks the color of cherry
candy' indicate make–up as a basic and essential part of every girl. The poet mentioned lipstick as a
tool a typical girl uses to increase sexuality and look pretty. Piercy once again takes help of imagery
to show young girls in their early twenties, ' she was healthy, tested intelligent/ possessed strong
arms and back'(7–8). These words list all the good characteristics of a girl, but they are not good
enough for a girl because she is not pretty. These words further explain that young girls are looked
more physically than everything else. In short, society puts more pressure on young girl's good look.
Word choice is another important aspect that supports the theme of this poem. Piercy uses a

The Negative Effects Of Barbie Dolls
In modern day society, impressionable teenage girls are bombarded with forms of media. They are
constantly exposed to media platforms and are consequently susceptible to society's outrageous
standards of what their ever–changing bodies should look like. This can drive them to have
unrealistic expectations for themselves, deteriorating confidence and potentially life threatening
illnesses such as, anorexia and bulimia. Therefore, it is clear that the media has damaging effects on
the still developing females within our society. From a young age the media's expectations are
accessible in the form of Barbie Dolls. Unknowing girls idolize Barbie and her materialistic lifestyle
hoping to one day become the Barbie that they play with today. Statistics show that about 90% of 3–
11 year old girls will have own a Barbie Doll. Barbie becomes one of life's early role models. Yet
the slim waist and long limbs that Barbie portrays are an impossible figure that are unattainable for
the human body. Therefore, from a young age, females are set up to fail as they feel the need to
reach an unattainable standard. Moreover, as girls grow out of Barbie Dolls they are susceptible to
many more forms of media and are only exposed to them for approximately 7.5 hours per day when
between the ages of 8 and 18. Consequently, the average adolescent can view up to 400–600
advertisements per day through forms of media such as, apps, TV and magazines and within those
commercials around one in every 11

The Essay Analysis of Barbie Doll
The Devastation of Social Pressure
One would think that growing up would be a fun, not a worry in the world, happy experience. Yes,
that is the way it should be, but that's not always the case, especially for women. As girls season into
women they realize they not only have to face the fact that they're in a patriarchal society, but also
the influences and pressure they face in the social aspect of things, such as their looks and body
image. There is so much competition amongst girls, especially when transitioning into a woman and
through most of their adulthood. So instead of being able to enjoy life and absorbing the true quality
of it, we are side tracked with superficial, stereotypical, shallow thoughts and images of how we
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Going through puberty is a stage of growth. Adolescents become more aware of their social standing
and sexual being. As we read further, the doll, she once played with, will create a major impact on
her; in the aspect of her body image and the pressure she faces from her peers.
In the second stanza we see how the woman is dissatisfied with herself even though she is "healthy
and tested intelligent/possessed strong arms and back/ abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity"
(7–9). The persona continues to say, "She went to and fro apologizing/Everyone saw a fat nose on
thick legs" (10–11). The traits that this woman possesses, is in every way correct; however, she is so
sure her physical traits are

Barbie Doll Is Bad For Girls
The infamous Barbie doll is still considered to be the most popular toy for girls (and not only for
them). However, the image that the doll itself spreads, is harmful for the girls worldwide,
considering the false body expectations it represents and the portrait of the girls as being
unintelligent. Both of the cases I will explain below. First of all, Barbie doll represent an unrealistic
body type and a rigid beauty ideal that studies show can be harmful to girls. This is dangerous, when
considered that from the young age girls play with the doll and want to be like Barbie. It is not
possible to look like the doll and be healthy at the same time. Also, the looks which Barbie represent
are suggestive. Blond hair, pretty face and unreal body curves may suggest young girls that this is
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In my opinion, it gives the doll a negative points for spreading sexism. In some games and
campaigns the doll is portrayed to be plain stupid and unable to pursue careers and interests, which,
in real life, it is completely untrue for women and

Barbie Doll Essay
Anna Middleton
Professor Stowe
IAH 201
November 12, 2017
The National Impact of Barbie Dolls on Young Girls Beauty standards differ around the world. In
the Maasai tribes of Africa, having piercings and colorful intricate jewelry is considered beautiful. In
China, women try and avoid sunlight in hopes of having the lightest, fairest skin. In Mexico, it is
considered beautiful to have long black wavy hair. However, the standard of beauty that seems to be
consistent around the world is having a thin, tight figure and a proportionate face. This standard has
been prevalent in our world for decades and the idea has been passed down from generation to
generation. Unfortunately, girls are exposed to the typical standards of beauty at a young age ...
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However, in reality, the body proportions of Barbie are unreachable and unhealthy. In the article
"Does Barbie make girls want to be thin," a quote from psychologists in the American Psychological
Association reads, "The ultrathin female beauty ideal she embodies has been linked with the
extraordinary prevalence of negative body image and unhealthy eating patterns among girls and
women," (Thompson 283). Referring to the Barbie doll, Thompson makes it clear that the image of
the Barbie dolls gives young girls a negative self–body image and can result in many young girls
having eating disorders. The constant goal to have a thin, tiny figure with long legs and a bigger
chest is simply unachievable. In the article "Does Barbie make girls want to be thin," people were
able to use anthropometry to use Barbie's body proportions, and compare them to the realistic image
of a woman. A conclusion reached by Rintala and Mustajoki of the British Medical Journal revealed,
"Were Barbie a flesh–and–blood woman, her waist would be 39% smaller than that of anorexic
patients, and her body weight would be so low that she would not be able to menstruate," (Rintala
and

Social Stereotypes In The Boy And Barbie Doll
Stereotypes are often found in society and can encourage literature and art to agree or disagree with
these ideas. In "The Boy" and "Barbie Doll" the topic of gender roles displayed through imagery,
repetition, and simile, by highlighting the appearances and expectations of males and females. From
the moment the sex of a child is determined, people begin associating ideas and objects to that sex.
If it is a girl many will buy pink clothes and imagine her in a ballet class. If it is a boy they will buy
blue clothes and picture him as a football player. In both "The Boy" and "Barbie Doll" the authors
address the role and appearance of females through imagery, describing them in a way that fits the
social stereotype but pushes the comfort level.

`` Barbie Doll `` By Marge Percy
Marge Percy "Barbie Doll" is a social commentary about the demanding pressures that the mass
media produces about how women should look like and what type of body they should have.
Women in the 1970s faced high standards and these standards still go on to this day. These high
demands lead women to go above and beyond to meet standards that society has placed upon them.
Some of these drastic measures can lead to consequences. In "Barbie Doll" the main character
decided to undergo plastic surgery to fix her "big nose" and "fat legs". Unfortunately she ended up
dying in her struggle to meet the standard that the media has placed on her at an exceptionally young
age. Her untimely death is a symbol and the theme of the poem that these women will work
themselves to death to meet societies demands and most of the time it is all for nothing. All this
women wanted was people to accept the way she looked and not critique her looks and it was not
until her funeral day, when it no longer mattered, that she finally got that acceptance. The poem
starts off just saying how the main character was "born as usual". There is nothing wrong with the
main character and she is just a normal girl that played with Barbie dolls. It is not until the fifth line
that "the magic of puberty" finally hits the author. Sadly, it is during this time when the human mind
is so fragile, that the high standards of the mass media on how a women should look start to bear
down, crash, and take over a lot

Barbie And The Barbie Doll
I. Introduction
A. 43rd place in the book of 101 Most influential People Who Never Lied, ahead of Luke Skywalker
in 85th place and behind Mickey Mouse at 18th place lays, Barbie. You might be wondering who
this Barbie person is. I am not talking about a real person. I am talking about Barbie, the doll.
B. Girls all around the world grew up playing with a Barbie doll. When first released she was a
plastic, white skinned, thin, long legged teenage girl. She wore a tiny black and white stripped
bathing suit with a pair of sunglasses sitting upon her head on top of her blonde colored hair.
C. The whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the Barbie doll little girl could be anything she
wanted to be. But, now in today's society little girls look at Barbie and think, I need to be tall,
skinny, and blonde like her.
D. Ruth Handler, creator of the Barbie doll preached, "Barbie always represented the fact that a
woman has choices."
E. Today I am going to share with you the evolution of the Barbie doll, and the incredible changes
they are doing to make every little girl feel like they have something to be inspired by.
F. First, I am going to brief you on the history of Barbie. Second, I am going to inform you on the
controversy that has been brought up in the past few years about the doll. Lastly, I am going to
explain the new generation of Barbie dolls that are in the making to soon be released.
*Keeping those points in mind, let's move right along to the history of

Meaning Of The Poem Barbie Doll
In the poem "Barbie Doll," the evident theme is don't conform to society's standards of women.
When the girl in the poem is growing up, she was like all the other girls her age: "presented dolls
that did pee–pee / and miniature GE stoves and irons / and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy."
(2–4). In the quote, the author uses symbols to show that girls are supposed to act a certain way,
primarily as housewives or stay at home moms. They are given dolls that act like children which are
symbolic of the idea that the young girls can practice being mothers of their children they are
expected to have. The stove symbolizes how girls are expected to know how to cook for their
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The author uses a simile to compare the girl's good nature to a rubber belt in a car that makes the
engine run. The girl was always being called names and was made fun of and if it happens once you
brush it off but once it is repeated over and over again it starts to really affect you but she had a
good natured personality so she could live with the bullying, her good nature kept her alive this is
similar to a fan belt in a car because the rubber is constantly under a little bit of friction not enough
to affect it one time but over the course of years it slowly wears out but until it actually breaks the
car could still run normally. The use of this simile is extremely important because rubber wears out
if it is constantly being used to move the vehicle which causes friction. Likewise, the girl's good
nature was in constant employment because of people constantly bullying her about her appearance,
that it wore out and finally snapped. She stops wanting to live because her good nature was keeping
her life going so once it was gone so was her life. When the fan belt on a car wears out and finally
snaps, the car can no longer move either, the car is dead like the girl. Also, fan belts are found on
cars which you would associate with men so the author uses it as the simile to show the reader how
when someone isn't

Barbie Doll Patriarchy
The two poems that I chose to write about are "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy and "homage to my
hips" by Lucille Clifton. In Piercy's biography says, "Her description of the girlchild in 'Barbie Doll'
is a not–so–thinly–veiled reference to herself. Piercy, however, did not sacrifice herself to
patriarchy's image of what an "ideal" woman should be; rather, she made herself into a crusader for
women's rights" ("Barbie Doll" 33). The quote helps me to understand Piercy's views for this poem.
She felt that she did not fit into the image of the perfect women of how society was seeing, but she
would not let a man control her life. Instead, she became an advocate for women's rights. Lucille
Clifton introduction for her biography says, "The poet is celebrating ... Show more content on
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Douglas writes the article "Young Women Learn Harmful Gender Stereotypes from Reality TV"
that, I think, is most relevant in the 21st century. The author says, "Any feminist, female or male,
who has seen ABC's The Bachelor was repulsed. For those who have missed this fine media
offering, a carefully selected lunk of a guy–in the most recent case, Aaron–is presented with a harem
of 25 also carefully selected young women, all slim, all conventionally pretty and most blonde"
(Douglas, para. 1). A show such as The Bachelor does not represent real women. The media tries to
portrait a perfect looking woman, which majorities are white on the show. In Clifton's poem, she
frees herself from the stereotype of what women should look. In her poem "homage to my hips," the
speaker says, "these hips have never been enslaved, / they go where they want to go / they do what
they want to do" (ln. 8–10). Additionally, Douglas says, "The show is not about Aaron, it's about the
25 young women. Female viewers see an array of personas, identifying with some and rejecting
others, as they calibrate what kind of woman succeeds in a world where appearance and personality
still powerfully determine a woman's fate" (para. 8). To me, it says that a women who watches those
type of show do not care about the bachelor, what they care is about how women behaves and their
looks. Just like in The Bachelor the Piercy's poem, "Barbie Doll" a classmate judges the looks of a
girl. In the poem, the speaker

Barbie Dolls Have Changed
How a childhood object has changed over time and how it is related to broader contexts.
In this essay I am going to be discussing and assessing how the 'Barbie Doll' which is a toy for
children, mainly for girls has changed over the years since the 1900's to the present generation and
how this relates to other larger contexts like class, gender, race, disability and faith. Below I have
inserted 2 pictures of the Barbie doll, One from 1959 and one from 2010, which is fairly recent.
1950's: The first Barbie Doll 2010 Barbie Doll(s)
I strongly believe that the Barbie Dolls have changed hugely since the 1900's. This is because
throughout my research I found that Barbie dolls have changed a lot since the 57 years gone by until
present times. Initially, Barbie had curly bangs as a hair design ... Show more content on
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I believe that Barbie has changed massively over the years in skin colour, hair colour and sizes.
Piaget has created the theory of learning through play. He says children engage themselves In
imaginative play which means that if they see a story or characters they are most likely to imitate
them and what they do. When children imitate others they develop a vocabulary which allows them
to name the world around them. This relates to dolls because if a child is given a doll which moves
and does things around a doll house like cleaning, a child will imitate that around the house and act
like a house wife like the doll. This shows that dolls are created in that way to leave a image in the
child's head on what a girl does when she grows up, likewise how the dolls have changed, whilst
children grow older they have certain changes in them

Barbie Doll Research Paper
Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic! Starting young, adolescent girls around the world are becoming self–
conscious due to society's influence upon what they should and shouldn't look like. Many argue that
The Barbie Doll plays a key influence in what young girls assume their bodies should look like.
However, some will argue that the Barbie Doll toy is a good role model for young children,
especially girls, because of her career choices, how she's depicted in her movies, and her overall
personality. Most people are aware that Barbie has had a lot of career choices over the span of her
"lifetime," so to speak. For example, Barbie was an astronaut. Not only is this not a traditional
female occupation, as only 48 of 555 people in space have been

My Barbie Dolls
It was one normal and typical evening, where I was bored playing with my Barbie dolls up in my
mom's room like every little girl usually does. My mom's room wasn't too big or too small, the bed
was messed up because I had used the covers as a Barbie doll home. I was wearing a yellow shirt
along with pink pants. My hair was down and all over the place. I was brushing the Barbie's hair
until the main door opened. My cousins Anisah and Muhaddes called my name like they do every
time they come over. "Fabiaaa"! My cousins yelled. I quickly threw my Barbie dolls back in their
box and ran downstairs. "I'm here"! I said as I'm rushing down the stairs to see them. I go hug my
cousins while our mom's start talking to each other. We went and sat on the sofas. Anisah was
wearing a purple tee with blue jeans and pink sandals while Muhaddes was wearing a striped tee
with brown shorts and brown sandals. I then asked them "Sooooo, whatcha wanna do"? "Ummm,
wanna play outside"? Anisah said. "Yea, sure let's go"! Muhaddes said. So we went out to the
backyard and decided that we wanted to play tag. We did eeny mini miny moe to see who would be
it. I was it so I counted up to ten while they ran around like crazy cheetahs. "One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten"! I counted while standing on the porch. I ran after them. They were
fast but I still was able to catch them. "HA! GOT YOU"! I said after I caught Anisah. Then I started
running after Muhaddes. I was running after him

Essay On Barbie Doll
Children need to look up to a good role model. A good role model includes being ambitious and
doing good deeds. Most little girls look up to the doll named Barbie. Do you ever consider why
teenage girls have low self–confidence and are never satisfied with what they have? As young
children, girls are indirectly taught what people think perfection looks like. In this day in age
perfection comes in all shapes and sizes. Personal body image is a subject that is kept quiet, but is
very real. Who is the real enemy in the growing epidemic?
Is being plastic and fantastic always the way to be? Models straight from the runway of Paris,
London and Milan are shrunk into plastic version and presented as the ideal image of a woman.
Children learn through the art of toys. Through play children learn about the world they live in.
American business woman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German
doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration. Ruth thought of this idea when she watched her daughter's
childhood playing with paper dolls. Several years and many designs later now Barbie dolls are sold
worldwide by the American toy company Mattel, Inc and launched in March 1959. A huge number
of 946,000,000 of Barbie dolls are sold every year. The blonde, skinny and tall figure is plastered
over shop windows racking in sales. We are in a culture where we have never relied on looks as
much as we do. For adults buying Barbie's it will soon feel like going to shops for a

Analysis of Barbie Doll
It is impossible to travel through life and never hear hateful comments. There are numerous spiteful
people that exist in the world today, and they throw words that destroy others. An example of a girl
going through this during her life is shown in the poem, "Barbie Doll", by Marge Piercy.
Throughout the poem, Piercy develops a story of a girl who was scorned for who she was. She did
not fit the standards of society so people shamed her. Therefore, this inevitably led to her death.
Piercy uses a voice that includes a freestyle rhyme scheme to help develop her thoughts as if we can
view the girl in front of us. She constructs her poem in this form so it helps the reader to become
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After the girl was brought into the world, she was handed dolls such as every young girl desires. The
dolls had "miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy" which can be
deemed a perfect life with the girl still covering herself in makeup so she is flattering to others
(Piercy 3–4). The lipstick is a symbol to show how the society this girl is involved is in focused
mainly on looks. Even at a young age, she is taught that lipstick is what a girl should wear.
However, as the girl progressed through puberty, she did not fit in with her classmates. She did not
have the picture, perfect nose or the slim legs. Even though she was healthy, she did not fit the
standards. The second stanza of the poem can reflect on the first because the poet is reinstating that
this society does not accept people who do not have the correct body. Within the second stanza,
Piercy states, "She went to and fro apologizing" (Line 10). This is ironic because the girl seemed to
be confident in her body in the beginning because she was healthy and intelligent. However, she
developed a yearning inside to be accepted by the ones who surrounded

Sexualization Of Barbie Doll
Barbie is viewed as an overly sexualized doll that is responsible for portraying unreasonable body
image expectations. A study was completed with forty five girls ranging in age from four to seven
(Sherman & Zurbriggen, 2014). Two different Barbie dolls as well as a Mrs. Potato Head doll were
used in the experiment, with Mrs. Potato Head serving as the control (Sherman & Zurbriggen,
2014). After playing with the dolls and then being asked questions about their future career
opportunities, the girls who played with the Barbie dolls displayed a larger gap in male dominated
career choice versus female dominated career choice (Sherman & Zurbriggen, 2014). The girls that
played with Mrs. Potato Head showed a relatively small difference in choices between male and
female dominated professions (Sherman & Zurbriggen, 2014).
Constantly reinventing and differentiating their products from competitors drives Mattel. Barbie has
now become a princess herself to reintroduce her to young girls who are already familiar with
Disney Princesses (Orr, 2009). Making Barbie a "Princess" increased sales of the Barbie line by two
percent in 2006 (Orr, 2009). In 2001, the overtly sexual Bratz Dolls, created by MGA
Entertainment, posed a big threat to Barbie and Mattel (Orr, 2009). To distinguish Barbie from Bratz
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Computers are engaging young girls more than playing with their dolls which creates a challenge for
the marketing of all Mattel's doll lines (Orr, 2009). Children increasingly choose a computer to help
them play with their toys as opposed to calling upon their imagination (Orr, 2009). The idea of
marketing different types of content to complement Barbie Doll sales was implemented as a way of
extending the appeal of an otherwise declining product (Orr,

Barbie Dolls: How Was Barbie Made?
Remember when you used to play with your Barbie dolls every single day? Have the parties with
them? Watch TV with them? Oh, those good old times. One question though: How was Barbie
made? Ruth Handler started the idea of Barbie when she saw her daughter, Barbara, play with
teenage paper dolls. Her daughter had a interest in teenage life and fashion dolls. Barbara and her
friends imagined the teenage dolls growing up and finding careers. Now, this was not what the
majority of kids did, as all the other kids played with toddler dolls. However, Handler found out that
imagining the future was an important part of growing up. She promised that she would make a 3D
version of the dolls Barbara played with. Of course, when the dolls started

Persuasive Essay Barbie Doll
From the time we are old enough to hold a doll in our hands to when we're waving our parents
goodbye on the bus to middle school, Barbie dolls are a girl's best friend. We skip around the house
singing "I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world!" and spend hours upon hours dressing the dolls up in
extravagant ensembles we dream of having in our wardrobe. Since the first Barbie dolls hit the
market in 1959, they have been an icon for young girls around the world. However, if you take a
chance to really analyze this popular child's doll, there is more than meets the eye. Due to the close
contact young girls have with this doll as their growing up, the design and nature of this doll should
be studied a little closer. Barbie dolls have an extremely ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Over the past fifty or so years, Barbie dolls have set the standard for beauty; big blue eyes the color
of the Caribbean Sea, platinum blonde hair longer than Rapunzel's, a big bust paired with the
juxtaposition of a narrow waist, and legs that could go on for days. These standards are often taken
to an extreme where people have gone to the ends of the earth to ensure that they look exactly like
Barbie does. For example, a Ukrainian model named Valeria Lukyanova. She endured countless and
costly plastic surgery procedures to make herself look exactly like Barbie. As she expressed in an
interview posted on hollywoodlife.com, Valeria also claims to have not eaten in weeks. She has
joined a cult–like sect entitled Breatharianism, where the members believe that they can survive
solely off of "Cosmic micro food" consuming no real food or water. She shared her hopes for this
new lifestyle saying, "I'm hoping [not eating for multiple weeks is] the final stage before I can
subsist on air and light alone." This raises a red flag to possible hidden anorexia and other mental
health disorders Valeria may be experiencing due to the Barbie's design. Similarly, an American
woman from Ohio named Cindy Jackson underwent a similar process. Starting in 1988, she endured
over twenty surgeries including a hair transplant, upper and lower eye lift, lip augmentation, tooth
enhancement, chin reduction, semi–permanent makeup tattoos, breast implants, and inner and outer
thigh liposuction. In fact, she holds the world record for the largest amount of cosmetic surgeries.
She was so dissatisfied with her body that she believed the only way to be content was to have the
mirror image of Barbie. Furthermore, Barbie's impractical body shape and accessories may also be
responsible for leading young girls into maladaptive eating patterns. For example, the 1965 Slumber
party Barbie doll included a scale

Barbie Doll Analysis
Not Like a Barbie The poem "Barbie Doll" written by Marge Piercy is about the pressure of fitting
in society. We look at a healthy girl that had a normal childhood. She grew up playing with toys
according to her gender and was considered smart at school. This girl had an endless number of
qualities for having a wonderful future. Everything for her lost value when in her adolescence a
classmate made her feel not beautiful because she did not look like a Barbie doll. There was a time
in my life when I experienced similar situations that connect me with the poem. There's a line that
says, "you have a great big nose and fat legs"(6) takes me back to my puberty. That is the time when
our body undergoes huge changes and sometimes ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
In this part of the poem the speaker is not saying that she mutilated herself. The real meaning is that
she went into surgery trying to fix her nose and legs and make them look small like a Barbie doll.
Clearly, we have to evaluate to what degree we fit in or to what degree we must reject the negative
messages society send us. No one should go to the operating room because there are some beauty
standards that we must meet. In my case, I do not have plastic surgery because I consider that we do
not need them. If we do decide to have plastic surgery, we must be careful. Nowadays, the number
of people undertaking surgery is increasing, and men also undergo surgery. I think that those
procedures are very delicate, and people risk their lives in the operating room. Sometimes people
survive, but they do not like the way they look. Some doctors are very demanding because they are
performing these surgeries illegally in their houses or the patient's homes at affordable prices. They
also do not care about their patients and are not using the appropriate equipment, and sometimes
there are cases of people being deformed or dead. I think that those who want plastic surgery might
undertake it only with the qualified personal. We must love our body and if we plan to change some
part of it should be to raise our

Movie Analysis : The Blonde Barbie Doll
Initially, the blonde Barbie doll received a disappointing lukewarm reception from the market
because most mothers wished their young girls to remain a little younger without jumping to the
teenage Barbie overnight. However, Mattel had a masterpiece plan in promoting the toys through
the television and mainly children's TV. In the late 1950's, most homes in America had television
and children's program had become a regular part of the programming. Subsequently, the Mattel
advertisers managed to circumvent the parent 's restraints by directly advertising to the juvenile
market. Through consistent televised advertisement a strong desire to own the toys developed and
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Moreover, it strongly asserted that the acceptable weight was just 110 pounds which are extremely
below America's female average weight. In light of this, Barbie was no longer considered as an
ordinary innocent girl toy because it was redefining feminity and the traditional cultural values and
expectation of sexuality.
The Slumber Party Barbie soon was an unstoppable bubble as the toys, and the television media
convincingly made the young girls believe that it is fashionably adorable to be extremely thin and
the glorification of outward beauty as the most important thing in life. Subsequently, many
concerned parents lodged complaints to Mattel Company for producing toys with a detrimental
impact on their daughters ' health and overall life. The Barbie frenzy and its impact on America's
culture soon attracted the attention of The Alliance of Eating Disorders Awareness researchers. They
ascertained that of all the 70 million suffering globally from eating disorders such as bulimia and
anorexia, a shocking 90 percent were young girls within the 12 and 25 who all admitted to having
played with the Barbie doll during their childhood. The study also established that a shocking 18 out
of the 25 women who grew up

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