Barbie has turned fifty years old.
She is still maintaining an amazing and beautiful body frame. There have been a lot of controversies about her thin frame and the bad influences it generates in women of all ages. Let us go through the pros and cons of some of these influences.
Before Barbie arrived on the scene in the 1950s, girls were destined to play only the mummy role. Barbie was the very first toy who gave them the opportunity to play an adult with options other than being a mommy. Barbie gave these girls new ideas about having a career, enjoy life through shopping and partying. Barbie forced these girls to think about opportunities outside marriage and motherhood. Hence the very initial suspicion about the bad influences of Barbie was that these toys might turn homely women in to independent career women. Many conservatives detested this idea.
Later there have been accusations against Barbie about its portrayal of a woman‘s shape. The impossible to achieve waist measurements were especially derided as a bad influence on women’s image. Detractors accuse Barbie as a major reason for the problems like anorexia, eating disorders etc exhibited by teenagers. This doll is blamed for influencing girls to place extreme importance on physical beauty so that this is adversely affecting their intellectual and emotional development. But kids are not going to take every thing they see in a toy that seriously. Most kids know that a toy is just a toy. They don’t compare the waist measurements with their own. The obesity epidemic existing in today’s world is another proof that women are not taking this Barbie image seriously. As such, Barbie has not adversely affected the majority of girls who played with her.
Another famous negative quote attribute to Barbie is “Math is hard. Let’s go shopping.” Women have started learning math and have overcome this stereotype. And there is some truth in this statement as a larger proportion of women hate math than men.
More than Barbie, it is the media’s portrayal of skinny models and actresses that could create stereotypical images of women.
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