Barbie syndrome

Perhaps it wasn’t the wisest idea to choose my career path from a Barbie book, but as a four year old, Barbie skewed what little sense of logic I had. The year is 2004, and I am immersed in Barbie: Career Girl. I spend hours perusing the colorful pages, gesturing excitedly at Barbie in each of her occupations. There is one in particular that seems to repeatedly capture my attention: Barbie is dressed in a long white coat, a black stethoscope adorns her neck. She is surrounded by jars of…

Even though they didn’t have fancy machines all the way back then, they still found things to play with, such as rocks, for example. Now, let's go on a quick adventure. Close your eyes. Imagine you’re a kid in the 1960’s and a new Batman movie or Barbie set just came out. You tell your parents to drive you to the store right away to buy a new toy. That was most of the life of the average 1960’s kid. The topic of toys in the 1960’s was very wide, including…

sport of soccer? My older sister and I were going to a friend’s 7th birthday party and we bought her a Barbie doll with some pink tiny accessories. Her name was Hailey. I helped my mom wrap the box with pink sparkly Barbie wrapping paper because she loved Barbie dolls. One time when I went to her house after school, there was a huge Barbie Dream House and then I gave my mom the idea to give her a Barbie doll. When we finally found parking in the very busy parking lot, we found Hailey’s party…

Not many artists can create a song that has a great tune and catchy lyrics, while also being somewhat dark, but Melanie Martinez's Dollhouse is all of this and much more. Dollhouse was Melanie Martinez's debut song after competing in The Voice. It mostly has an AABB rhyme, with outlying lines that have no rhyme throughout the song. Dollhouse talks about a young girls dollhouse and its inhabitants, a perfect-seeming family with many issues. The song is narrated by the daughter in the family of…

The Barbie Bungee CRA was an assignment given by Bungee-R-Us. It had asked me to find a way to make a bungee cord for Barbie to enjoy from the library balcony without making her head hit the floor and without making the bungee cord too short that Barbie won’t enjoy it. It technically asked me to find a way for Barbie to jump off the library balcony and to go as low as possible without making her head hit the ground. They had also asked me to write an explanation that describes how I can predict…

For my baby boomer interview, I decided to interview my grandmother, Carolyn Williams, the second oldest of six who was born in the year 1952 in Portland, Oregon. I started the interview with asking her, “What new technology came out during your childhood?”, she replied, “... we had cellphones, but they were like the size of a tv remote, but bigger”. She laughed and asked my aunt if she remembers what the cell phone looked like. My grandmother adds, “The cell phones that are out now are so…

LOU UNFOLDED THE TOURIST MAP and eyed a man over the rim of the creased paper. A boxy man with a crooked nose and a single bushy brow stood on the harbor dock, smoking a cigarette. He draped an arm around a woman’s shoulder while he joked with another guy twice his size, a hairy bear as wide as he was tall. The woman was a little more than a caricature to Lou. Big hair and a big mouth, made bigger by the annoying smack of bubblegum between her magenta lips. Her clothes were too tight in some…

Women with straight hair envy women with curly hair because their hair seems beautiful and carefree. They imagine that those with curls simply shampoo and condition their hair. They allow the curls to dry and they are out the door. The fact is that curly hair requires a lot of tender loving care because of its very fragile nature. The curly haired girls complain about hair that is uncontrollable and lacks moisture. This is due to the nature of the hair and shampooing the hair too often. Another…

Learn to live colorfully with the Lalaloopsy Color Me Squiggles N' Shapes dolls, and find great deals on this toy from eBay. The blank, white canvas of the Lalaloopsy doll lets your child take markers and create all kinds of shapes and squiggles to decorate it any way he or she sees fit. These aren't just any markers because after creating all of the squiggles and shapes, you can easily clean each stamp off with a sponge so your kids can color again. This makes the toy a great deal compared to…

Specifically, younger females have the idea in their head that they must grow up to be perfect, beautiful women that have a main purpose to have children, and care for their homes and their husbands. The “Barbie Doll” portrays the female body through gender roles and how society feels women should appear. The Barbie doll is not just a toy, but also an icon of the perfect feminine beauty and a given role in society. This doll causes many problems for young girls today trying to fit in and obey…