03 Jan 19
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Actually my elder sister as a child always longed for a Barbie and didn't get one, since we did not need her...I am not sure her daughters had Barbies.
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03 Jan 19
@ponderable saidmy sister had Sindy dolls ,more refined.
@drewnogal
Actually my elder sister as a child always longed for a Barbie and didn't get one, since we did not need her...I am not sure her daughters had Barbies.
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03 Jan 19
@drewnogal saidI didn’t need her, but my Action Man was beating her off with a ski pole.
Mine was a honey blonde in a turquoise dress.
She was a kind of grown up doll I played with through the start of puberty. 🤔
03 Jan 19
@ponderable saidYou do realise that your nation had the idea first in 1955 with the Bild Lilli doll and that the Americans kidnapped her and surgically transformed her into Barbie 3 years later.
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Actually my elder sister as a child always longed for a Barbie and didn't get one, since we did not need her...I am not sure her daughters had Barbies.
Disgraceful!
03 Jan 19
@drewnogal saidBarbie personified an ideal for several generations of girls. It took Mattel ages to update the doll with a black-skinned Grace-line that wasn't simply a White-Barbie dyed dark.
Mine was a honey blonde in a turquoise dress.
She was a kind of grown up doll I played with through the start of puberty. 🤔
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219257/Barbie-launch-black-doll-look-like-real-people-having-fuller-features.html
However, I'm not altogether sanguine about the ideal of beauty which the dolls represent. I mean, they're either anatomically impossible or anorexic: too long legs, too thin ankles, wasp-waisted, etc.
OK, so boys' toy dolls (Justice League, DC Comics, etc.) are equally absurd ...
All in good fun, so long as girls don't go bulimic trying to emulate them.
03 Jan 19
@drewnogal saidGood for you, Drew. Break the mold.
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I must have modelled myself on Ken. I wore fatigues in my art college days.
03 Jan 19
@kewpie saidSort of agree with you but my 4 year-old insisted on Barbie for xmas.
Barbie was an invention of the devil, she created whole generations of girls with poor self-images. Nobody could ever live up to the Barbie ideal.
As compensation she has some chubby baby dolls too.
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04 Jan 19
@drewnogal saidThat's a rhetorical question right? Good God Drew. it's HOH. 😀
Now where on earth would you get an idea like that from?