RANT AHEAD! (I collect toys in case you didn’t know)
This right here is what the news is calling “S&M Barbie” and has parents and Christian groups outraged!
Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far. A children’s doll in sexually-suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth. – The Christian Voice
Okay here’s the catch. This is part of the DC Comics collection of Barbies, which already include Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Woman (which I of course own). This is the character of Black Canary. This doll is so obviously marketed at collectors. If you want proof, well these dolls are the ONLY Barbies you’ll ever find in a comic book store. Of course even when Mattel points out that this is part of the DC Comics’ collectors line, well some moms won’t buy it.
Several mothers, however, aren’t buying it….neither the explanation nor the doll. Los Angeles resident and mom, Roberta Moran, said, “They want kids to grow up too fast, basically. When babies are little they should have babies that are soft and lovey.” Mom Zully Gomez adds, “It doesn’t look very appropriate for a Barbie. It looks like a stripper.”
You know what, save it. Did you buy your kids the “Wizard of Oz” Barbies? OMG you taught your kids about being gay! What about the “I Love Lucy” Barbies OMG, teaching your kids to stay in a marriage with cheating husband! How about the “Gone With The Wind” Barbies? Just insert your own racial injustice saying here. All these Barbies are aimed at the collector market, because Mattel knows Barbie is a collectible!
Finally for those who really are offended by the sexual innuendos. Well you know what, maybe it’s time you learn the HISTORY of Barbie! I don’t know how many people know it, but Barbie IS a sex doll. She IS an adult toy. The woman who “invented” and sold Barbie to Mattel TOOK the idea from a sex doll! Yes she found the doll in Europe (Germany if memory serves me). The doll was marketed at adult men as a gag gift basically, and she turned it into a children’s toy. A children’s toy which Mattel bought and sold to kids. A children’s toy that taught little girls to be pretty and popular they had to be blond, blue eyed and have a perfect unachievable without surgery figure (in case you didn’t know, the original Barbie’s dimensions are not humanly possible unless you have a few ribs removed). A toy that taught them they needed a man to be complete. Need I really go on?
Image: The Sun
News Story Links/Sources: KTLA News, Fox News, MomLogic
P.S. I don’t follow this comic character at all, but the outrage the doll alone has prompted me to buy one when it comes out (cause that makes it even more collectible). That and the fact it’s fabulous!
I actually had no idea that Barbie came from a sex toy. Is it really wrong of me to find that funny? I think this doll looks pretty interesting.
Yup lol. I know far too much about Barbie 🙂 In undergrad one of my classes was on “Modern Material Culture” and we read a book on Barbie. I looked it up on Wikipedia. Yes I know anyone can edit that site, but I remember enough from the class to know this is correct . . . .
During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came across German toy doll called Bild Lilli.[1] The adult-figured Lilli doll was exactly what Handler had in mind, so she purchased three of them. She gave one to her daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilli doll was based on a popular character appearing in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for the newspaper Die Bild-Zeitung. Lilli was a working girl who knew what she wanted and was not above using men to get it. The Lilli doll was first sold in Germany in 1955, and although it was initially sold to adults, it became popular with children who enjoyed dressing her up in outfits that were available separately.
When my daughter was young she had to have every new barbie that came out. After awhile they all looked the same, naked with tangled short hair. She loved to cut their hair. She had barbie houses, cars, furniture, and clothes. I really don’t see anything wrong with Black Canary Barbie. It’s not like she comes with a stripper pole and sex toys. Big deal she has on black fish-net hose.
The funny thing is, when I was young, Barbies were just Barbies. They didn’t have the collectors line that they do now. A lot of toys on the market are now out there aimed specifically at the collectors.
I went through TRU just yesterday and saw tons of these “toys.” The “Heroes” toys, those aren’t toys they are very adult figures marketed at the parents of kids. I saw a 120 dollar lightsaber that was metal and glass, lit up and made accurate movie sounds. No adult is going to buy it for their kid (cause a kid couldn’t hold the thing up I don’t think!). It’s a far cry from the flimsy plastic saber I had as a kid that got broke and bent!
Also when it comes down to it, parents buy the toys for their kids, kids don’t buy the toys. If you think the toy is too adult for your kid to have . . . . don’t give it to them lol!
Chalk this question up to sheer laziness on my part and not wanting to look up the answer:) Do the groups that are opposed to this Barbies have issues with the Bratz dolls? I think those dolls are way more skanky then this Barbie could ever be!
That’s a good, I don’t really know. I think they are butt ugly dolls myself lol.
Poor Barbie though always seems to find trouble every few years. She can’t do nothing right!
Well, I think Barbie is sort of a fetishist dream anyway because she’s like 40DD, 14, 34 or something right? Her proportions are ridiculous. And she’s blonde and dumb (Math is hard! Lets go shopping!)
So what’s the big deal about having her in a bit of leather?