All Barbie Dolls should be banned
Ruth Handler came up with a clever business idea to create a doll called ‘Barbie’ which was first manufactured by the American toy-company ‘Mattel, Inc.’ and launched in March 1959. For over fifty years, the Barbie Doll has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market. Criticisms of Barbie are often centred on concerns that children consider Barbie a role model and will attempt to emulate her. That is why so many people, including me, share the same opinion that all Barbie Dolls should be banned.
One of the most common criticisms of Barbie Dolls is that they create and promote unrealistic expectations - a false image of the female body of perfection and beauty for many young children. The Barbie …show more content…
The Barbie pushes society to the need of having the ultimate, most faultless body image. In 1996 the researcher Norton showed that the probability for such a body shape is less than 1 in 100,000 women. The creator yet claims that her proportions were created for ease of dressing and undressing the doll, not replicating an adult figure. In all forms, Barbie represents a completely unattainable figure. In pursuit of that unattainable and so very impossible goal of reaching such an extreme and unrealistic body, it promotes disturbed eating disorders such as Bulimia and Anorexia. Studies display that about 8 million people in the USA have an eating disorder of which only 10-15% is male, and the rest 85-90% is female. Of the females, 80% are under the age of 20. Many admitted to worrying about their weight, already at a very young age - between four and six. Most children around that age receive their first Barbie doll. Many of the girls that have been affected by any sort of eating disorder admitted that the Barbie Doll contributed and played a huge role on their influences in behaviour and looks. Numerous state that they were led to believe that they only way to be perfect and life a perfect life, is by basically being Barbie. Many people stated that Barbie was just a fun part growing up, yet could a doll that can immensely affect your health, be
Ruth Handler came up with a clever business idea to create a doll called ‘Barbie’ which was first manufactured by the American toy-company ‘Mattel, Inc.’ and launched in March 1959. For over fifty years, the Barbie Doll has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market. Criticisms of Barbie are often centred on concerns that children consider Barbie a role model and will attempt to emulate her. That is why so many people, including me, share the same opinion that all Barbie Dolls should be banned.
One of the most common criticisms of Barbie Dolls is that they create and promote unrealistic expectations - a false image of the female body of perfection and beauty for many young children. The Barbie …show more content…
The Barbie pushes society to the need of having the ultimate, most faultless body image. In 1996 the researcher Norton showed that the probability for such a body shape is less than 1 in 100,000 women. The creator yet claims that her proportions were created for ease of dressing and undressing the doll, not replicating an adult figure. In all forms, Barbie represents a completely unattainable figure. In pursuit of that unattainable and so very impossible goal of reaching such an extreme and unrealistic body, it promotes disturbed eating disorders such as Bulimia and Anorexia. Studies display that about 8 million people in the USA have an eating disorder of which only 10-15% is male, and the rest 85-90% is female. Of the females, 80% are under the age of 20. Many admitted to worrying about their weight, already at a very young age - between four and six. Most children around that age receive their first Barbie doll. Many of the girls that have been affected by any sort of eating disorder admitted that the Barbie Doll contributed and played a huge role on their influences in behaviour and looks. Numerous state that they were led to believe that they only way to be perfect and life a perfect life, is by basically being Barbie. Many people stated that Barbie was just a fun part growing up, yet could a doll that can immensely affect your health, be