Plus-size, double-chinned Barbie sparking controversial debate

Would you buy this Barbie for your daughter?

  • Yes, absolutely!

    Votes: 4 11.8%
  • No

    Votes: 30 88.2%

  • Total voters
    34

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A controversy is brewing over a request to remake Barbie in way contrary to the iconic image so many girls knew growing up.

Plus-Size-Modeling.com is suggesting Mattel create a plus-size Barbie. While some say more realistic curves would be a better role model for girls, others say an overly large Barbie would be an unhealthy example.

Plus Size Modeling conducted a poll on its Facebook page on Dec. 18 asking, “Should toy companies start making Plus Sized Barbie dolls?” In just under two weeks, a picture of the poll has received over 40,000 likes, 5,000 comments and 2,700 shares.

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http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/12...ed-barbie-sparking-controversial-debate-90732
 
I like the realistic Barbie concept-not too thin, not too fat-just right.
 
I voted no but feel the need to add I wouldn't buy the other kind either.
 
I loved Barbies when I was a kid and if I had a daughter I would buy her the Barbie she wanted. If she wanted plus sized Barbie fine but I don't see how glorifying obesity is any better than glorifying the unattainable Barbie body. I don't really remember thinking too much about her figure, I just liked her glamorous clothes, her dream house and her corvette. I had 4 older brothers and Barbie was the only girl toy I had, if I had a fat one they would've only made fun of her.
 
I loved Barbies when I was a kid and if I had a daughter I would buy her the Barbie she wanted. If she wanted plus sized Barbie fine but I don't see how glorifying obesity is any better than glorifying the unattainable Barbie body. I don't really remember thinking too much about her figure, I just liked her glamorous clothes, her dream house and her corvette. I had 4 older brothers and Barbie was the only girl toy I had, if I had a fat one they would've only made fun of her.

The feminists found a way to make hay when it was discovered that her figure was inhuman. Now, the fat-is-normal crowd want to make hay too. In a statist society politics invades everything.
 
The feminists found a way to make hay when it was discovered that her figure was inhuman. Now, the fat-is-normal crowd want to make hay too. In a statist society politics invades everything.
NO DOUBT. Everyone is so willing to be defined by a certain "type" then scream for acceptance or worse, special privileges and concessions. It's fucking sickening.
 
One of my aunts had the original hooker barbie with blue eyeshadow, cat eyes and a black bouffant. That barbie was pretty awesome.
 
WTF is wrong with "ordinary human sized" anyway? it either has to be unrealistically and unhealthily tiny, or unhealthily large. Are Americans really that afraid of simple plain REALITY or what? No, I wouldn't buy this for a daughter anymore than I would buy the other one. I would buy a daughter a 'normal,' 'realistic,' and 'human' sized one, but apparently "real" is the only size we mundanes aren't allowed to have.
 
One of my aunts had the original hooker barbie with blue eyeshadow, cat eyes and a black bouffant. That barbie was pretty awesome.

That will be worth a hell of a lot one day. It can't possibly be real.
 
That will be worth a hell of a lot one day. It can't possibly be real.

I couldn't tell you for sure, the doll is long gone.

The doll looked like this but with much darker hair:

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That will be worth a hell of a lot one day. It can't possibly be real.

Um why can't it possibly be real? Read up on the origins of Barbie.

These people are getting offended over and arguing about the attributes of what amounts to a sex doll with no nipples and a lack of articulations in her fingers, not to mention synthetic hair and who puts on rings by cutting a hole in her hand/flipper.
 
Something perhaps related, for whatever it might be worth: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-industrial-big-k-women-cereal-and-fat-talk/

Karen De Coster said:
The Industrial Big K: Women, Cereal and Fat Talk

Kellogg’s is playing to the dumbed-down, Oprahized female masses with its latest campaign, “Fight Fat Talk.” The website is all about “positive posts that are helping silence the negativity.” Seriously – here it is.

Kellogg’s is using its signature chick cereal, Special K, to sell women on the notion that “fat talk” is a “barrier to weight management success.” Look at the “Gains Project” page and tell me this isn’t targeted for the stereotypical, confused, fearful-of-everything female. Maybe women talk so often about being fat because they are fat, and that’s why they keep talking about it. And since they are eating everything the government and the government’s nutrition satellites have told them to eat to stay healthy, they are confused. They don’t understand they have been hoodwinked by a government-industrial alliance and lied to by the science-medical establishment that reaps mega-profits from selling deception and developing standard protocols that make people sicker and fatter. Furthermore, this racket turns them into longer-term, high-revenue patients.

In the end, the goal is two-fold: (1) Kellogg’s is fighting to keep its chick cereal a hot seller in times where people are finally questioning the legitimacy of the government’s long-standing nutritional standards that favor industrial food machinations, and (2) The industrial giant is yet again confirming for you - without you having to think - that eating processed wheat and sugar out of a box will help you lose body fat. In essence, these ‘don’t-feel-bad-about-being-fat’ campaigns are nothing more than propaganda for the masses to condition them into self-acceptance for being fat and abnormal. When folks accept being fat and don’t work to change it, the government-industrial machine keeps on churning out and selling its subsidized-politicized, food pyramid-approved industrial slop that is promoted as healthy food.

Now put down your beverage to avoid a keyboard spitting incident before you go to this page (click on “Products”) that tells fearful women what to eat to nourish their bodies: processed, frozen waffles; sugar bars; fudge-dipped pretzels; brownie bites, etc.

 

Lawrence wants word 'fat' banned on TV
The Hunger Games star says the term amounts to a form of bullying and claims it is thrown around too loosely in the media, so she is urging TV broadcasting officials to take a stand.

In an interview for the TV special Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013, Lawrence says: "Why is humiliating people funny? I get it, and, and I do it too, we all do it.

"(But) the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows, and picking up how to talk and how to be cool...

"And the word fat, I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?"
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/20382833/jennifer-lawrence-wants-word-fat-banned-on-tv/
 
I couldn't tell you for sure, the doll is long gone.

The doll looked like this but with much darker hair:

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I had that one. Mine had blonde hair. I don't think mine was one of the original Barbie's though. I think the originals looked like this:

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This one ^^ came out in 1959, a few years before I got my Barbie. My older cousin had this one.
 
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