"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
-Marilyn Monroe

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Barbie: The Idea of Beauty?

The plastic surgery a model would need to get to look like Barbie
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Barbie's image of "perfection" is not only acknowledged by people who are beyond the young age of playing with the doll; the Barbie doll has become the cultural icon of female beauty, and it's sad to know that this image of "beauty" is near impossible to obtain. As a real woman, Barbie would stand 5'6" tall and weigh 120 pounds with measurements of 38-18-34, as opposed to the average woman with the measurements of about 41-34-43. A woman with Barbie's measurements would have a fat percentage so low that menstruation would be halted and walking would be impaired. The terrifying piece of aspect of this information is that Barbie is one of the most popular children's toys in the world. These influences begin at ages as young as three years old. If a girl starts played with the Barbie doll at age four, what would she think by the time she reached fourteen?


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Notice any changes?
As we have evolved as a society, so has Barbie, and the results are obvious; our expectations have become less and less sensible. At this rate, what will she look like in thirty years? Will we really be a society with an ideal beauty of that? What effects will this have on our children?

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