Barbie the role model

You can't deny it, barbie is a role model for generations of little girls who grow up playing with them, cutting their hair off and looking for that missing shoe. I had a few barbies when I was younger which I took great pride in dressing and redressing and making up stories for them. It was entertaining for me for a time but I never really thought about how long her legs were and how her hip to waist ratio was unrealistic for a woman. Barbie was just a doll to play with. It frightens me to realise that girls of the age group that play with barbies are so much more aware of their bodies and really what the ideal body in our society is. (As portrayed by the media anyway.) It's quite a scary thought.

I'm sure that there are many people, maybe feminists out there who burr up of the idea of barbie as a role model but you can't really deny it. What is popular with little girls is not going to stop being popular because of the views surrounding the product. If the case is that young children cannot separate the real human body from the shape of a dolls body, we're in for big trouble with the generation of girls that have Braatz dolls.

I was actually just going to post this picture of a worthy doll role model, but you know how it is, you get typing and it all just comes out. These opinions you didn't know were there are suddenly on paper, floating around in the world. 

Who knew they made a Queen Elizabeth I doll? Neato! Can you imagine the dress-ups?