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To: trisham

When I was a girl in the late 1950s early 1960s Barbie was just a doll. None of my friends wanted to have Barbie’s figure. We just like the outfits and the cool accessories. It wasn’t until feminists came along did young girls and women tortured themselves to look like Barbie.


30 posted on 01/28/2016 3:43:54 PM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: LottieDah

Agreed. Little girls like dolls. It’s a simple thing, just as little boys like guns (although as a little girl I did have a red vest with white fringe vest and skirt, holsters and silver six guns with white grips, hat and red cowboy boots. I wanted to be either a cowgirl or an indian when I grew up.


33 posted on 01/28/2016 3:50:55 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: LottieDah

Exactly. My daughter had Barbies and not once did she even consider that the doll was a model for how she should look. She just liked changing the clothes, etc. I’d say the recent push back against the original doll is from the moms (probably SJW types) who are pissed they don’t look like that (as if any woman could).


48 posted on 01/28/2016 4:43:38 PM PST by reegs
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To: LottieDah

I think the Twiggy craze hit in there somewhere. All of a sudden, girls were trying to look like planks on toothpicks in a dress.


56 posted on 01/28/2016 5:21:10 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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