Posted on 01/30/2016 7:12:45 PM PST by drewh
Mattel has announced updates to its iconic Barbie doll, which include the additions of curvy, petite and tall body types, as part of an attempt to ensure the toys better represent modern women like Kim Kardashian and Lena Dunham, according to TIME magazine.
Speaking exclusively to TIME this week for a cover story, Evelyn Mazzocco, who is the head of the Barbie brand, said that Barbie’s declining popularity forced the company to try a different approach. For the first time, the doll will be available in alternate body types, which will include a variety of skin tones and hairstyles.
Mazzocco said after a previous attempt at making the at times controversial doll more independent and feminist, her company decided to shift its focus to creating dolls that represent greater diversity. Mattel is also marketing the toys to mothers who are more reflective of that diversity.
Mattel has been criticized for decades over Barbie’s impractical body proportions.
Dockterman, who was given exclusive access to Mattel’s El Segundo, California headquarters for the feature story notes Lena Dunham, who is the star and creator of HBO’s Girls, might be partially behind Barbie’s transformation. She writes:
American beauty ideals have evolved: the curvaceous bodies of Kim Kardashian West, Beyoncé and Christina Hendricks have become iconic, while millennial feminist leaders like Lena Dunham are deliberately baring their un-Barbie-like figures onscreen, fueling a movement that promotes body acceptance.
Dunham’s supposed influence on the world of toys, as asserted by TIME, is profound. In addition to her promotion of “body acceptance,†the HBO star wrote in her 2014 memoir that she was raped when she was 19 by a man she insisted was a “resident conservative†while she attended College in Ohio.
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That’s an unhappy female who wants to look as bad as she feels if I ever saw it.
Dolls are supposed to be for little girls to practice being a mother . . . baby dolls.
Adult dolls are supposed to be for adult female collectors.
Please please no Hillary pictures.
Concerning child molester, Lena Dunham, Conservatives have the ability to feel more disgust than Liberals so Lena Dunham’s revolting antics on “Girls” can be interpreted as an attempted to deaden feelings of disgust and perhaps making people more amenable to Liberal nonsense.
Those are some really grotesque examples of women. Most women don’t look like that. The new dolls don’t look anything like those two. They’re much too small.
Will the doll molest her sister too..if it does then its a perfect representation of Lena Dunham. Only in Hollywood can a woman who gleefully reenacted in her book how she molested her little sister be given nothing but praise but Bill Cosby gets ostracized
Little girls want to learn how to be 20, not 40. Big hips version is a guaranteed loser.
New Barbie dolls come with queer lovers and sex toys?
Heh. Beat me to it.
“She ain’t exactly pretty, ain’t exactly small.”
In otherwords Barbie is now a fat disgusting angry slob with VDs and a uterous scarred from multiple abortions?
And probably some weeping sores.
Phew! Thanks. LOL!
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