New Barbie.....

[Weird Harold]

Mattel are patting themselves on the back because they've put out new Barbie dolls, congratulating themselves on developing dolls with curvy shapes and different ethnicities to represent modern times....

Others have taken note:

http://assets.amuniversal.com/55ddb950a8480133382e005056a9545d
http://www.gocomics.com/mac/2016/01/29

 

[RobDownSouth]

Saw a disappointing video yesterday of six year olds playing with "Curvy" Barbie.

When they saw adults were watching them, they played nice with Barbie.

When the adults left and hidden cameras rolled, the kids stripped the Barbies and made fat jokes. Age six, folks.

 

[StrangeView]

PMS Barbie.
One day every month it cries. And then goes psycho for another day.

What about Divorced Barbie?

Comes with Ken's house, Ken's car, Ken's boat, .....

 

[jehoram]

Lego have just introduced a wheelchair sitting figure with assistance dog.

I remember when there was a Barbie in a wheelchair. (I think she was called the "Share a Smile Barbie" or something like that.) The disability activists had a field day when it was discovered that the wheelchair wouldn't fit through the door of the Barbie Dream House...

 

[Jovenes_Latina]

I use to love my Barbies but then the "Politically Correct" crowd came along and started complaining about everything and ruined my love for them

 

[Hypoxia]

I use to love my Barbies but then the "Politically Correct" crowd came along and started complaining about everything and ruined my love for them

Are you bulimic or anorexic?
Impossibly thin Barbie encourages girls to starve themselves.
Are severe eating disorders politically correct?.

 

[Jovenes_Latina]

Are you bulimic or anorexic?
Impossibly thin Barbie encourages girls to starve themselves.
Are severe eating disorders politically correct?.

I'm not bulimic or anorexic. I just didn't like this vocal minority complaining about every little change the makers of Barbie made.

 

[Aquagal]

I grew up loving my Barbies! Not til I was an adult did I realize people actually think they were a bad thing because they were unrealistic. It never dawned on me that Barbie was supposed to be this model for every kid, probably because I was 8 and it was simply a toy! Looking at the new barbies I would have loved that little Latina looking cutie in the front because she has hair like me, but really I never thought I was supposed to look or be like Barbie.

 

[Hypoxia]

I've heard of (but not seen) a biopic of the old singing duo The Carpenters. Karen Carpenter had a wonderful voice and a toxic self-image. Extreme anorexia nervosa -- she starved herself to death. In the stop-motion biopic, Karen and brother Richard are portrayed by Barbie and Ken dolls. As the story progresses, Karen gets thinner, thinner -- Barbie is carved away to a mere stick-figure. Emblematic, yes?

Yes, Barbie is only a toy. I will admit to no Barbie fixation. But my several-years-younger sisters loved to sadistically torture, dismember, and decorate Barbie, adding cigarette burns, wounds, tattoos, piercings, wrist slashings, body hair, etc. Barbie is a wonderful screen upon which to project personal depravity. Yes, kids ARE psycho monsters.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Did Ken beat Barbie and blacken her eye?