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Ban Barbie?

OKgrannie

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I guess ugly dolls would be better for girls' intellectual and emotional development!?!?

Ditch the doll? Lawmaker targets Barbie - TODAY Fashion & Beauty- msnbc.com

"Barbie could get an unwelcome present for her 50th birthday: outlawed in West Virginia.

A state lawmaker proposed a bill Tuesday to ban sales of the iconic Mattel doll and others like her.

The Barbie Ban Bill, proposed by Democratic Delegate Jeff Eldridge (D) Lincoln County, says such toys influence girls to place too much importance on physical beauty, at the expense of their intellectual and emotional development"
 
I do agree that Barbie is one of many factors that can contribute to problems in Western countries of image that result in problems like Anorexia Nervosa. I do not think the solution is to ban the doll, parents should be given the information and decide if they want to have their child play with the doll.
 
they just need to make a new model that is missing a few teeth

problem solved
 
I guess ugly dolls would be better for girls' intellectual and emotional development!?!?

Ditch the doll? Lawmaker targets Barbie - TODAY Fashion & Beauty- msnbc.com

"Barbie could get an unwelcome present for her 50th birthday: outlawed in West Virginia.

A state lawmaker proposed a bill Tuesday to ban sales of the iconic Mattel doll and others like her.

The Barbie Ban Bill, proposed by Democratic Delegate Jeff Eldridge (D) Lincoln County, says such toys influence girls to place too much importance on physical beauty, at the expense of their intellectual and emotional development"

I think their time would be wasted much better by regulating door knobs.

:roll:
 
From your link:

The delegate concedes that the chances of getting the bill passed are slim, but adds that he stands behind it.

"I knew a lot of people were going to joke about it and poke fun at me," Eldridge said. "I couldn't get anybody to sign on the bill with me but I said I'm still going to introduce it."

Sounds like this is a guy who is in desperate need of media attention. He knew it was a joke and proposed it anyway.

Something's going on here. I don't know what.

As is typical with these type stories... the reporter doesn't do any digging. Nothing but fluff to make headlines... and generate thousands of threads on message boards across the country.

:shock:
 
You ever noticed that despite a massive obesity epidemic Anorexia is seen as the big problem with people.

Are they also constantly depressed that they arent 12 inches tall ?

Also why is it often the same people who claim things like barbie are responsible for influencing children in negative ways are often the same who will claim things like rap music dont.
 
I guess ugly dolls would be better for girls' intellectual and emotional development!?!?

Ditch the doll? Lawmaker targets Barbie - TODAY Fashion & Beauty- msnbc.com

"Barbie could get an unwelcome present for her 50th birthday: outlawed in West Virginia.

A state lawmaker proposed a bill Tuesday to ban sales of the iconic Mattel doll and others like her.

The Barbie Ban Bill, proposed by Democratic Delegate Jeff Eldridge (D) Lincoln County, says such toys influence girls to place too much importance on physical beauty, at the expense of their intellectual and emotional development"

Easy fix for that. Mattel can come out with Barbie USMC, who not only shaves every day, but can also rip off your head and piss down your neck. :mrgreen:
 
"I just hate the image that we give to our kids that if you're beautiful, you're beautiful and you don't have to be smart," Eldridge told West Virginia news station WOWK.


What a flippin moron. Barbie has been an astronaut, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, and basically everything you could think of. If I am not mistaken it does take some sort of smarts to get a career like that.
 
What a flippin moron. Barbie has been an astronaut, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, and basically everything you could think of. If I am not mistaken it does take some sort of smarts to get a career like that.

Yeah, but no matter what she is professionaly, when GI Joe comes back from combat, she's a whore. :2razz:
 
I guess ugly dolls would be better for girls' intellectual and emotional development!?!?

Ditch the doll? Lawmaker targets Barbie - TODAY Fashion & Beauty- msnbc.com

"Barbie could get an unwelcome present for her 50th birthday: outlawed in West Virginia.

A state lawmaker proposed a bill Tuesday to ban sales of the iconic Mattel doll and others like her.

The Barbie Ban Bill, proposed by Democratic Delegate Jeff Eldridge (D) Lincoln County, says such toys influence girls to place too much importance on physical beauty, at the expense of their intellectual and emotional development"

Out of all the **** to complain about.

I think this picture sums it up.
 

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Yeah, but no matter what she is professionaly, when GI Joe comes back from combat, she's a whore. :2razz:

You mean Barbie's not faithful to Ken?
 
Yeah, but no matter what she is professionaly, when GI Joe comes back from combat, she's a whore. :2razz:

She's not a whore. She's a Physical Gratification Technician.
 
This guy obviously has a screw loose, or way too much time on his hands.
 
I guess ugly dolls would be better for girls' intellectual and emotional development!?!?

Ditch the doll? Lawmaker targets Barbie - TODAY Fashion & Beauty- msnbc.com

"Barbie could get an unwelcome present for her 50th birthday: outlawed in West Virginia.

A state lawmaker proposed a bill Tuesday to ban sales of the iconic Mattel doll and others like her.

The Barbie Ban Bill, proposed by Democratic Delegate Jeff Eldridge (D) Lincoln County, says such toys influence girls to place too much importance on physical beauty, at the expense of their intellectual and emotional development"
Mattel should introduce a pregnant teenage cousin for Barbie in WV.
 
Have you ever been to WV? :beam:


Yes, I know what you mean

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Mattel should introduce a pregnant teenage cousin for Barbie in WV.
Actually, it should be even more popular in NYC, DET, CHI, or PHI based on the pervasiveness of unmarried pregnant teenagers.
 
What a flippin moron. Barbie has been an astronaut, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, and basically everything you could think of. If I am not mistaken it does take some sort of smarts to get a career like that.

I'm not on the crucify barbie bandwagon, but when I worked for the Body Shop Corporation several years ago, I went to one of their "responsible marketing" seminars and barbie was used pretty convincingly as an example of how irresponsible marketing affects kids. The dimensions of barbie are impossible yet little girls think that barbie is what they are supposed to look like. Moving from that to, later in their childhood, looking at fashion magazines where the models are airbrushed and impossibly thin, it begins to change a girl's perspective from healthy to an impossible fantasy.

Of course you could say the same about He-Man or GI Joe with little boys except the play and stimulation of the imagination is much, much different. Those toys are play combat while Barbie is all about the looks. Her clothes, her shoes, her car, her house, her hair. All about the looks and I think that changes little girls' perceptions over time.
 
You mean Barbie's not faithful to Ken?

Well no. Ken is just a frat-boy, who doesn't pay Barbie the kind of attention she craves. He's too busy getting drunk over at the Delta Kappa Phi frat house all the time. GI Joe shows up and gives her all the attention she wants, just so he can get in her pants. Because a 7 month tour in the suck, with no poon has made him hungry like the wolf. Subconciously, she is taken in by his sheer, nearly barbaric, masculine mannerisms and cannot help but to succumb to his physical desires. So great is her want to satiate his sexual hunger, she lets him do anal, something she never lets Ken do.
 
Barbie is evil and should be banned! I shall toss out my great classic books along with those demon Barbies in a big bon-fire! :(

Honestly though Barbie is an unrealistic image of the female shape and they need to come up with something more realistic. Keep it Real. Do not give me this fairy tale crap either cause you can have plastic dolls that look like most normal women and still glam em up. ;)
 
Barbie is evil and should be banned! I shall toss out my great classic books along with those demon Barbies in a big bon-fire! :(

Honestly though Barbie is an unrealistic image of the female shape and they need to come up with something more realistic. Keep it Real. Do not give me this fairy tale crap either cause you can have plastic dolls that look like most normal women and still glam em up. ;)
 
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