Posted on 03/04/2021 6:28:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Mattel is celebrating Women's History Month with a fitting new addition to the Barbie family: An Eleanor Roosevelt doll.
Ahead of International Women's Day on Monday, Barbie announced that Eleanor Roosevelt is the latest historical role model to join its "Inspiring Women" series, which helps fund women-led research on media representation. The Dream Gap project attempts to address bias in the classroom, internalized racial bias and inequities in representation.
The longest-serving first lady, Roosevelt served in the White House during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's terms in office, from 1933 to 1945. Known for her humanitarian work, the United Nations spokeswoman also has a long political career of her own.
"A champion of policies around civil and economic rights, Eleanor Roosevelt's passionate advocacy was unwavering, even when faced with resistance," Mattel said in a statement. "Earning the title 'First Lady of the World' for her hard work and dedication to humanitarian efforts, Eleanor Roosevelt's perseverance redefined the role of women in politics and public life."
In addition to the new doll, Barbie is also launching its first-ever interactive digital series, spotlighting role models including Yara Shahidi, Adwoa Aboah and more "who paved the way for future generations of girls to dream bigger."
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Looks nothing like her.
Feminists will buy these as collectors items....50 years from now,their great great grandchildren can sell them to buy a loaf of bread....
Franklin would probably not have had mistresses if Eleanor looked like Barbie.
Eleanor Roosevelt? Wasn’t she cancelled yet?
Insufficiently ugly and commie.
Something Michelle O would wear!
Or if there weren’t related.
Cabbage Patch dolls are back?
no one would buy it if it did.
Remember that woman who had plastic surgery on face and body to look like the Barbie Doll? Wondering if she is celebrating now?
Grossorama. Rama. Rama.
That doll don’t look like that short, overweight, plug-ugly wench.
She never looked that way— very ugly in her 20’s and had prominent warts that got bigger with age. No warts on this dolly. What insanity, but no big deal to put on a standard barbie run of dolls just change the hair. Should offer it as a pair with her dyke girlfriends of fame and fortune, and a black “ken” doll of her fave house servant/slave.
There’s a “Women’s History Month” now??
When did this happen?
What month is Men’s History Month?
How about dogs?
We’d have been lost as a species, without them.
Hey— the “Ken” model has no privates— a clean chop. meaning he is a a “what”... an “it”. It “fits” perfectly to Barbie’s zero feature crotch.
They should expand their doll market— put out that ugly tranny Levine with a fat ugly face and ridiculous hair— a “pediatrician” (imagine anyone letting this pervo touch their child).
She likes to play with other Barbies, but we don’t talk about that.
My mom once bought me a Barbie.
That useless thing couldn’t sit any of my Breyer horses so my gramma got me Jane and Johnny West dolls, who were fully articulated and not worthless.
My neighbor had tons of Barbies, along with their full wardrobes, house and cars.
/take her clothes off, put different clothes on, prance them around, lather rinse repeat...ugh
Playing with her was how I learned to be jaw-clenching polite when I really wanted to scream.
[my dad, much to the horror of my mom, bought me cowboy stuff and guns]
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