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
satchelmcqueen said:
id buy the fatty barbie if my daughter wanted it. but id also expect some real cars for real people to so barbie can be more real. id like a barbie 2000 pontiac grand am, complete with shitty idle hesitation and random non working lights and blinkers. also maybe a rusted out mini van with shit door hinges. .
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ken would also need to either be unemployed or working some dead end crap job. he would need bags under his eyes and maybe a child support payment book
 
If they are interested in realism, they should surround her with miniature empty pints of Haagen Dazs.
 
MelissaWV said:
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.
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Nekkid Barbie is indeed a disappointment. (lolz :D )
 
TaftFan said:
Here is a "normal" vs. regular size Barbie:

barbie-normal-proportions.jpg


Normal is much hotter.
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Agree
 
This barbie doll should be banned. Barbie is supposed to be attractive and beautiful. We don't want little girls to think that being fat is a desirable way of living life.
 
Realistic Barbie commercial.

Lammily dolls are now available for $25 at lammily.com. The dolls, which are made according to typical human body proportions, also come with the option to buy stickers for Lammily so she'll have tattoos or imperfections like cellulite, acne and stretch marks.

https://gma.yahoo.com/lammily-reali...l-180741032--abc-news-fashion-and-beauty.html
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I don't understand why her cheeks are pink at the 1:01 mark. Is she sunburned?:confused:



Lammily decides to go to the beach. She is bombarded with advertisements and is disheartened when she gets to the beach until she sees that nobody's perfect, even the seemingly perfect models! Lammily isn't shy anymore about her stretchmarks and cellulite! Then she breaks it down with her new friends!
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Reminds me of using my mom's giant Kotex pads as Barbie sleeping bags when I was a kid. Imagine her shock when she came home and found my Barbies camping in the front yard on her Kotex.

‘Normal Barbie’—Who Already Has Cellulite and Stretch Marks—Now Gets Her Period

And might make it easier for teens to better understand their own menstrual cycles

The Lammily doll—the so-called “Normal Barbie” with realistic body proportions—is joining the ranks of women everywhere: she’s getting her period.

But she’s more than prepared for this crucial rite of passage, thanks to the $10 Period Party extension kit. Described as “the fun way to explain the menstrual cycle to kids,” creator Nickolay Lamm wants to start a conversation about periods and the stigmas that surround it.

“It’s just what happens in real life,” Lamm told TIME. “We wanted to put it on the doll so it’s not a scary thing.”

Which is why the kit comes with an educational pamphlet explaining what to expect from a menstrual cycle plus a pair of doll underwear, 19 colored pads, a calendar and stickers to track periods.

The video ad for the Period Party kit shows why young girls might prefer to learn about their menstrual cycles from their doll rather than their parents.

A graphic designer turned toymaker, Lamm created the Lammily Doll in 2014, which comes with a sticker-extension pack to add other things that can be seen as taboo, like cellulite, freckles, acne, scrapes, bruises, scars and moles.

Lamm cited Donald Trump’s controversial comments about Megyn Kelly after the first GOP debate, when Trump said “there was blood coming out of [Kelly’s] eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” in August.

“I don’t want to make this a whole political project or anything, but I think when [Trump] said that it was just an example of the overall culture where menstruation is very taboo, and not only taboo, but some people use it as an insult,” Lamm says.

The Lammily doll is dubbed “Normal Barbie” because of her normal shape, modeled after an average 19-year-old woman’s measurements, based on CDC data. The doll starts at $25, with extension packs and extra fashion options starting at $7.

http://time.com/4042833/normal-barbie-period/
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Why do we care about the proportions on a plastic doll?

You know, the whole argument that beautiful Barbies make girls self conscious is a bunch of crap. Just look at the kind of people that are pushing it.

I suppose little boys should play with action figures that have "normal" proportions instead of huge bulky muscles? What a joke
 
Leave it up to the kids. Every time someone has come up with one of these gimmicks sales have gone flat and the toy winds up at the dollar store.
 
Barbie’s got a new body – and now Mattel is tackling her other big image problem

In her nearly six decades on toy-store shelves, perhaps no year has brought bigger change for Barbie than 2016.

After watching the iconic doll’s dominant market share slip every year since 2009, Mattel gambled in January on a major makeover. It gave Barbie more varied body shapes, skin tones and hair types. The overture was meant to address what has long been the hardest part of selling Barbie: Legions of parents think the buxom, often-pale-skinned doll sends a lousy message to girls about beauty standards.

But, it turns out, her body was only part of the problem.

Barbie, it seems, has developed a reputation as something of a material girl.

“A lot of the conversation was focused on what Barbie had — her stuff,” said Tania Missad, Mattel’s senior director of global insights.

In other words, Mattel researchers found that when people thought of Barbie, they thought about the pink convertible, the Dreamhouse and the closet full of tiny, plastic stilettos. They thought of a character whose life was more “Real Housewives” than real world.

And this, executives knew, was a problem. Generation-X parents were often content to have their girls play with a doll as long as it was merely entertaining. They found that millennials, however, were fixated on giving their children toys that had purpose and meaning.

And so begins yet another crucial quest for Mattel: It is working to use marketing and other strategies to reposition Barbie as an emblem of imaginative, creative play.

They’ll likely find a receptive audience in moms who have nostalgia for the brand, the ones who remember the offbeat careers and personal adventures they cooked up themselves while playing with the dolls back in the day. And yet they’ll be challenged by the persistent perception that Barbie is a perpetuator of gender stereotypes, not an agent for smashing them.
A new target audience

Until now, if Mattel advertised on television, it was largely with commercials that spoke directly to 5- to 7-year-old girls, offering descriptions of the toys and showing them how to play with them.

But, starting this fall, look for the company to be on the airwaves with ads aimed squarely at parents. During “Dancing With the Stars” and some of ABC’s holiday programming, for example, executives plan to run a 30-second spot that shows a girl playing with her Barbies, pretending to be a science professor and lecturing her dolls about the human brain. LMAO!

Even sooner than that, Mattel will take a new tack in marketing its President and Vice President Barbie dolls, a set that has been rolling into stores in recent weeks and gets its marketing launch Wednesday. While it’s not new that Barbie is running for the highest office in the land — she’s been doing so in most presidential campaign years since 1992 — it’s new that she comes with a running mate. And Mattel this year has teamed up with a nonprofit group called She Should Run to cast the tiny politicos in a somewhat different light.

She Should Run is a nonpartisan group that works to get more women interested in running for public office. So, this year, instead of just presenting girls with an elegantly coiffed doll in a White House-worthy power suit, the dolls’ packaging will come with a prompt to download a worksheet co-created with She Should Run that’s meant to get parents and kids talking about leadership.

The worksheet asks girls to circle words that describe them as a leader, with choices such as “brave” and “fearless.” And it has a fill-in-the-blank speech where girls can write about what they would do if they were president — a clear bid to push the buttons of the purpose-driven millennial parent.

Mattel executives like to say that they want to change the focus from what Barbie has to what kind of play activity Barbie enables.

“It’s sort of the beginning of our brand to start encouraging girls to do something,” said Lisa McKnight, senior vice president and general manager of the Barbie brand.

If you’re wondering whether the doll is a warm embrace of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Mattel says not so much: The company works on an 18-month product cycle, so this doll was in the works before the outcome was clear in this year’s presidential race. (And, for what it’s worth, President Barbie’s skirt suit and Vice President Barbie’s short peplum top are decidedly un-Clintonian ensembles.)

Mattel has also convened an advisory council of people outside the toy industry to offer it different assessments of the Barbie brand. The group includes young female entrepreneurs, women who work in science and math fields, and Erin Loos Cutraro, chief executive of She Should Run, who is immersed in the political world.

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And the company says it is encouraged by its recent interactions with customers. For example, some parents seemed more willing to bring a Barbie as a gift to a child’s birthday party.

In the past, Missad said, “Mothers would tell us, ‘I don’t know if I can bring a Barbie to a party. I don’t know if the other mom would want that in her household.’ ”

And yet it may be difficult to change plenty of other people’s deeply ingrained views about Barbie.

Elizabeth Sweet, who studies gender-based toy marketing at the University of California at Davis, said she sees the new roster of diverse Barbies as a clear sign of progress for the brand.

And yet, Sweet said, “Unfortunately, the Barbie brand is rooted in appearance and beauty and body. And I don’t think they can really get away from that.”

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Where's anatomically correct transgender barbie?

Totally racist.

Need to sue Mattel until they comply.
 
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