Barbie syndrome

Cinderella, Snow White, Barbie, even the famous Muppets TV show have a slightly hidden message within them regarding what is perceived as beautiful. Miss Piggy with her voluptuous figure and beautiful dresses presents herself as a legendary puppet diva giving bits of advice about makeup and fashion while influencing children about what is perceived beautiful and fashionable. We are presented from a young age with images of what the society considers beautiful and aesthetic. The reality…

When the words Barbie Doll is spoken or read, the first thought that usually comes to everyone’s mind is the childhood toy of long, lean legs and arms, packaged in bright pink boxes on displays and collections on bedroom shelves. To embrace the image of the doll, teenage girls are situated on an extreme pressure to change who they are these days. The twenty-first century social media and clothing has promoted these skinny, size zero anorexic-looking body type. In the poem, “Barbie Doll,” written…

The quote: "New Beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants" is very relevant to the specific events of chapter 3. In Chapter 3 Lily and Rosaleen are looking around town trying to survive and trying to find any hint of Lily's mother. Lily is trying to find out things about her mother, so first she is locating people that her mother once knew. This is like Lily being a new beekeeper and she is trying to find information and her way to…

Hollering Creek and Other Stories discusses the issues that most Chicana women go through in this country. Sandra Cisneros portrays the sense of otherness, fears, battles and worries Chicano women experience in their lives. The two barbies in the story “Barbie-Q” the little girls play with portray the oppression of one culture by the dominant culture. When they play with the dolls, one of the girls tells the other one, “Yours is the one with the mean eyes and ponytail” (Cisneros 14). With…

Yes, generally speaking, it's a pretty good time to be a woman. The only problem is that we are still trying to overcome the sexism that is alive and kicking in the comic book industry. Boys read comic books, and girls should play with their pink Barbie dolls. The comic book industry is one place that still has not evolved as rapidly as we would all like, but it is trying. There are at least three types of sexism in the industry today, from the lack of women creators, the hypersexualized…

In the United States, twenty million women and ten million men struggle with eating disorders (“Eating”). Society places high values on being thin, so it’s no wonder that men and women are pushing themselves to keep up with these ideals. People are resorting to vomiting, dieting, and starving themselves to fit in. The number of people with eating disorders has rapidly increased over the years as media has become a more prominent part of daily lives. Messages depicting “perfect” bodies are…

Walking into the toy section of Walmart I noticed two things, the first one was that there were different isles for boys and girls toys. Second was the fact that the boys isle had more dark colors such as blue, black, and red while as the girls were more of pinks and bright colors. Once I had started to look at these isles I noticed a lot of the toys are in fact gendered. I noticed that the girls isle has babies, lots and lots of baby dolls which should suggest that little girls are suppose to…

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…

1. I think this is the new challenges and a big try to Meg Whitman. When she has joined in the company of eBay, she is the successful on the traditional company world in her life, operation a segment of a major toys maker. Before she joined the company of eBay, she is the one who make toys to all of the kids to make the kids in a happy mood. She saw a tiny internet company which is under the conventional. Meg Whitman makes eBay begin with a tiny internet company that similar with the garage sale…

All I saw were the toys, bright colors, and smiles. It was a wonderful place filled with everything I ever wanted, Barbie dolls, toy trucks, Legos and so on. As I continued to walk through, I was so excited that I was playing over in my head what toys I would play with first. The Barbie dolls first, then the playhouse, and build a house with Legos. And there were so many other kids to play along with too. With the amount of toys and having news friends all around me, I felt like I was in a…