Gender Roles In Marge Piercy's Barbie Doll

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Bongolan, Rosemary: Toy Companies do have a moral obligation to consider the social impact of their toys. Toy companies mainly care about money and they don't think about the gender roles and what society now thinks what each gender is supposed to do, the impact of their toys. Children now have a sense of what their supposed to do when they grow up and how they're supposed to look and feel instead of doing what feels right to them. Toy companies should consider what goes on beyond the product. "How would the children respond to this product?" instead of "Will this proliferate our funds?". This puts a pressure on both girls and boys to be a certain way, in the poem "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy she says that "Her good nature wore out/like a

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