Barbie

company Mattel introduced the Barbie doll to the public. Their initial goal was to create a doll for every little girl out there to play with and identify with. The girls who grew up playing with a Barbie,myself included, eventually admired and sieved to be like Barbie, for all the wrong reasons. It wasn’t the numerous professions or house she had, it was the way Barbie looked and dressed. The female body has long been associated with the idea that we must look like Barbie dolls in order to be…

MUW Letter of Intent There’s no power quite like that of having a community. It’s what gives us a sense of identity, it’s a source of love and support, it makes us feel safe in the world. In caveman days, without our clan we were as good as dead with the elements, sabertooth tigers, and limited resources working against us. In today’s world we have more cushioning to survive physically without a clan, but we still need them just as much psychologically and emotionally. An individual rose has…

Chakiya Jennings English 102 Toni Judnitch 4/17/15 Mirror, Mirror Mirror, mirror on the wall, why can’t I be a Barbie doll? Back in the 50’s women of a larger weight who had curves were more appreciated, but as time went on women started to get smaller and wanted to have bodies that were impossible to obtain what was known as the “Barbie figure”. Trying to obtain this look is a job in its self, Women are becoming more obsessed with having the perfect body. Since the media has put…

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…

Modern times call for modern ideology. Everyday there seems to be a growing rate at which gender is categorized in a strict fashion. Author and professor of USC and Notre Dame, Mary Celeste Kearney has a vast amount of research to help break those lines. She wrote Pink Technology: Mediamaking Gear for Girls, an article in which she entails the way society see the way girls should be utilizing things that are geared towards “boys.” Her current role as associate professor of film, television, and…

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…

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…

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…

It could however also be seen by some as a portrayal of the Aryan race which was a particularly prominent ideal at the time due to Nazi Germany's intentions. In fact, the doll that inspired Barbie, Lilli, was created by a German toy company that were known supporters of Hitler. One of the founders of the company actually describes the Lilli, doll in a similar way that those described the Aryan race, from this we can infer that her blonde-haired, blue-eyed appearance was just that. Therefore…