Ken is such a doll, with his sweet words. Barbie has gained a few pounds, but at least he still loves her.
Everyone knows that feeling you get when you open that brand new box, with your beautiful new doll just staring at you. Maybe it was a Christmas gift, or maybe a birthday present, or maybe even a surprise from your parents for getting great grades at the end of the school year. Either way, the feeling of pulling out that new perfect doll was the best feeling in the entire world.
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Perfect doll. Yes, Barbie's are perfect, they have a slender figure, beautiful eyes, long legs, and unbelievably soft hair. You almost wanted to be her. You would play imaginary games with her and accessorize her as you please. Eventually, to have her and Ken fall in love, and have a perfect life together in the Barbie mansion, with three corvettes, a plane, and a Jeep. Who wouldn't want to be her?
Today's society has decided to criticize the perfection of the doll, and try to provide another example of why the world is not fair. Growing up, I for one never altered my weight because of a doll. If anything, I would change my appearance because of something I saw on TV.
Because society has found another problem, Barbie's now have a new design. They will have tall, petite, and curvy-sized bodies, as well as new skin tones, and hair colors. Now don't get me wrong, I think it is okay to have new types of dolls, and I don't discriminate against any types of people, but I do have a problem with the reasoning behind the motives of changing the doll.
I am not sure when society will decide to wake up, but it needs to be fast. People have nothing better to do than worry that they don't have a "fat" Barbie doll, or that they don't have a doll with purple hair. Society should accept the fact that these dolls don't make children feel bad, or want to change their image. These are just dolls that little girls can escape to their own imagination and create a made-up world. People need to stop being so judgmental and sensitive.
It is okay that these dolls are "perfect," they are supposed to be. In the perfect world everyone doesn't have a mansion, a plane, a perfect husband, animals, vacation homes, must I go on? So if we are going to start complaining about body shapes, and hair color, we should start complaining that everyone is not rich. Not everyone works at the zoo or is a Vet or a Doctor.
Where is the homeless Barbie? Where is the abused Barbie? Where is the alcoholic Barbie? Where are the Barbies with disease and cancer?
There is a world out there that has more problems than weight.
So maybe society should open their eyes and not open a can of worms, that should not be opened.
