Adults presently argue that it is Barbie's fault that teenage girls now have eating disorders and perfection problems, I believe that this is more because of society. As a little girl, I was not worried about barbie's figure or her breast size. I was concerned more with whether barbie wanted to go to the park that afternoon or shopping. I do not believe that little girls are concerned with how their dolls look compared to themselves. As I grew older , around age 10, and looked back at my doll collection I was more aggrevated that they titled a line of dolls "Bratz." That is no name for a little girl's toy. I think that girl's obsession with perfection develops later in life after the barbie phase and more when we start getting invovled with the teen magazines. I started out with Tiger Beat or J14. As you move on to Seventeen magazine or People then to Vogue the people on the cover page are never the "everyday girl," it's the size 00 model. We have models that are labeled plus size that look "normal and fit" if they were in public and not under the limelight. We constantly read in magazines how Kim Kardashian gained 10 pounds and looks like a whale. The national average dress size of american women is between a 12-14, Celebrities like, Adele, get rediculed by the media for being this size. The magazines also always include a way of losing 10 pounds in a week on their cover. Its sickening listening to the ladies in my life, whether its friends or family, claiming that they are going to start the next new diet. I believe that they adults are blaming the wrong source, Barbie is easier to blame than society's opinion of what beauty and perfection is.Sunday, October 5, 2014
Doll's Influences
Adults presently argue that it is Barbie's fault that teenage girls now have eating disorders and perfection problems, I believe that this is more because of society. As a little girl, I was not worried about barbie's figure or her breast size. I was concerned more with whether barbie wanted to go to the park that afternoon or shopping. I do not believe that little girls are concerned with how their dolls look compared to themselves. As I grew older , around age 10, and looked back at my doll collection I was more aggrevated that they titled a line of dolls "Bratz." That is no name for a little girl's toy. I think that girl's obsession with perfection develops later in life after the barbie phase and more when we start getting invovled with the teen magazines. I started out with Tiger Beat or J14. As you move on to Seventeen magazine or People then to Vogue the people on the cover page are never the "everyday girl," it's the size 00 model. We have models that are labeled plus size that look "normal and fit" if they were in public and not under the limelight. We constantly read in magazines how Kim Kardashian gained 10 pounds and looks like a whale. The national average dress size of american women is between a 12-14, Celebrities like, Adele, get rediculed by the media for being this size. The magazines also always include a way of losing 10 pounds in a week on their cover. Its sickening listening to the ladies in my life, whether its friends or family, claiming that they are going to start the next new diet. I believe that they adults are blaming the wrong source, Barbie is easier to blame than society's opinion of what beauty and perfection is.
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Yes i agree adults do argue that it is barbies fault for all of this but personally i dot think it is . When i was growing up i didn't really play with barbies all the time but occasionally i did but growing up i didn't think of the barbie that way it was just a doll to me it didn't make me think any other way about myself and i don't think it did with other children. Some children might of thought that but that's just a little phase as they would grow up they would probably leave that phase in the past because it was just a little toy.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Barbie's and other dolls do make some kids think there not pretty or at least helps contribute to that problem. I think certain factors, how you are raised, economic status, and race can also play a factor on how kids think of themselves. A kid that is lonely or maybe talked about by there peers might believe why cant I be like Barbie. To me it seems like someone would look at someone of there own sex that they deem more prettier or more handsome and want to be like that.
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