Is Barbie a timeless role model or out-of-date?
Mattel once marketed a Barbie sticker album with “If you stay close to your friend Barbie life will always be seen through rose tinted glasses;and several generations of girls have learned cultural values and norms from playing with Barbie.
Do you believe Barbie has changed enough throughout the years, to keep up with changes, after the baby boom generation?
Or do the doll and her accessories still convey an outdated image of women’s circumstances and interests?
Barbie is a doll, not a role model. She gives us the ability to act out our own dreams and “play house”. I play Barbies with my niece now, and its really the same as when I played 35-40 years ago. She has clothes and accessories, but usually what we “play” is what we learn in other areas of life. We act out what we see relationships and friendships to be about, and when you are 7, its alot about pretending to get dressed up to go shopping or get married or hang out with friends. My Barbie was kind of a feminist, who was very pushy with her very nice husband, Big Jim, and she ended up leaving him and the kids for GI Joe. Most of that was modeled around my Mom being a pushy feminist and my Dad being a very soft-spoken man. I loved dolls, and if there was one I felt was more like me, (or what I wanted from life at the time) it was the Sunshine Family, these really nice little soft faced people with a husband a wife and a little baby. I actually preferred cutting out paper dolls from old catalogs and making up my own more realistic families out of a Sears catalog when I played alone. Barbies were more for playing with girlfriends.
I don’t know anyone who was psychologically harmed from playing with the stereotypical Barbie. I do like that they now make her in all different hair, eye and skin colors. I actually bought the first green eyed, brown haired, fair skinned Barbie when it came out, and I was way past doll age. But when I look at most kids Barbie collections, its still the blonde, and it never seems to change. Its just a doll.
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