Comments on: S&M Barbie Pisses People Off

By: cb

cb — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:01:15 +0000

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?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:35:40 +0000

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!

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:33:27 +0000

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!

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:47:50 +0000

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!

By: boo1

boo1 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:21:03 +0000

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.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:22:58 +0000

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.

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:18:53 +0000

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.